Alright Dan, now you've done it. 30 minute heated rinse! I'm still including a dry, I like my dishware baked!
The thing is water coming already hot (+145*F) will trigger a short main wash (12 minutes) when the time needed to scour dish and bake-ware (30-40 minutes) would provide ample time to heat the water as it is.
I feel like thermal holds were a way of the past by not penalizing users who had hot water. Those with 150*F tanks could still enjoy normal cycle times or at least normal for that period of time.
A 150*F thermal hold followed by a 180*F thermal would require two thermostats, or one stat with a bias heater further complicating things. Robustness is a key ingredient in any appliance, however simplicity will always take it to the next level eliminating at least one more thing that can go wrong when millions of machines are in use. Small 0.001% problems become problems on a grand scale. Also ff something does go wrong (like the heater giving out) there is no fail safe as the machine will run indefinitely until manually stopped. Personally I really don't like the concept of breaking busses in the timer, re-feeding, extraneous switching or stalling the timer based on external inputs.
I've always like GE's approach. They moved away from temperature sensing based water heating on their EM models and built the time into the main wash and rinse cycles. I like the idea of the timer being absolute, at the top running above all else switched across the line by a single contact having the final say in any cycle sequence.
[this post was last edited: 8/20/2024-06:46]
The thing is water coming already hot (+145*F) will trigger a short main wash (12 minutes) when the time needed to scour dish and bake-ware (30-40 minutes) would provide ample time to heat the water as it is.
I feel like thermal holds were a way of the past by not penalizing users who had hot water. Those with 150*F tanks could still enjoy normal cycle times or at least normal for that period of time.
A 150*F thermal hold followed by a 180*F thermal would require two thermostats, or one stat with a bias heater further complicating things. Robustness is a key ingredient in any appliance, however simplicity will always take it to the next level eliminating at least one more thing that can go wrong when millions of machines are in use. Small 0.001% problems become problems on a grand scale. Also ff something does go wrong (like the heater giving out) there is no fail safe as the machine will run indefinitely until manually stopped. Personally I really don't like the concept of breaking busses in the timer, re-feeding, extraneous switching or stalling the timer based on external inputs.
I've always like GE's approach. They moved away from temperature sensing based water heating on their EM models and built the time into the main wash and rinse cycles. I like the idea of the timer being absolute, at the top running above all else switched across the line by a single contact having the final say in any cycle sequence.

[this post was last edited: 8/20/2024-06:46]