What do you mean by "pressure fill?" They all had a fill determined by the pressure on an air dome that tripped the water level switch to stop filling and begin agitation. If there was no water level selector switch, it only filled with the full amount of water. I believe that even the most basic of the machines would agitate dry at the 2 minute mark so if you wanted to use less than a full tub of water, you might be able to set the timer at the 2 minute mark and keep resetting it each time it went into drain to wash a lower than full load. I know that some basic WP machines even into the early 60s, maybe, had a portion of the wash cycle that did not allow fill and the timers could be moved to that area to wash with less than a full tub of water. I did not look at these KM machines' dials closely enough to see if they had the same feature.
Washers with timed fill
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Dry agitate
All modern DDs have a 2 minute portion before the spin in the normal cycle with dry agitate. I think this is so you can test agitation without filling the machine- a neat idea (for service) I credit whirlpool with.
All modern DDs have a 2 minute portion before the spin in the normal cycle with dry agitate. I think this is so you can test agitation without filling the machine- a neat idea (for service) I credit whirlpool with.
Creating confusion, am I? Or confused, I am!
OK, did I use the wrong terminology? I only noticed control over water temperature... And the standard timer dial, but no water level on some of those machines... So whatever the filling method on some of those basic machines (that is not timed fill, or whatever the "other" method of dill) they had...
-- Dave
OK, did I use the wrong terminology? I only noticed control over water temperature... And the standard timer dial, but no water level on some of those machines... So whatever the filling method on some of those basic machines (that is not timed fill, or whatever the "other" method of dill) they had...
-- Dave
It's the same method as machines that have a water level control on the console ... a switch that responds to air pressure that increases inside a small hose as the water level in the tub rises. The difference being that the switch is hidden inside the console and is not adjustable for choice of high/medium/low or variable fill levels.
A non-adjustable pressure switch could be swapped into a model with adjustable levels ... or an adjustable switch could be swapped into a machine without (drill a hole in the console). The timer doesn't have to change.
None adjustable pressure switch
Here is an example on a Galaxy (scroll through the pics):
https://dengarden.com/appliances/Washer-Not-Spinning-Try-This-First
Here is an example on a Galaxy (scroll through the pics):
https://dengarden.com/appliances/Washer-Not-Spinning-Try-This-First
Drew up a high end model, wiring diagram to follow:
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