First cycle check
Had a load of whites today. Heavy soil, about 3kg (11 T-Shirts, 7 pairs of underwear, 2 dish towels).
Selected Cottons 40C, reduced the time by 2 bars, added prewash and extra rinse. It gave me an initial reading of 3:35h, but cut down, taking about 2:45h in the end.
I did overdose accidently (forgot that the stainremover I used would suds a lot).
Prewash and sensing took about 30 minutes. The prewash used short tumbles, heated to 30C and actually reheated the water once.
The main wash was about 50min total, 40 of those with the ELux style Quick/Slow tumbles shown here towards the end of the mainwash:
Then, it did a drain and started this first of 4 rinses:
No interim spin before that as usual when extra rinse is selected.
Then, as you can see in the video, interim spin at about 1200rpm I guess.
The distribution phase shows the increasing tumbling speeds to act against tangled items and to move heavy items towards the outside, so balancing would be easier.
2 more rinses followed. All with tumbling while filling, about 4 minutes of rinse time, and a simmilar spin. All used about the same water level (see picture below, brought to you by the instant unlock door; yes, I just had to press Pause to open the door at that point).
The final rinse used a static fill and the same water level. Same rinse time, too.
At 22min on the timer, it drained, distributed, did a short ~600rpm burst, slowed down, checked for balance, relaunched for a ~1200rpm burst, slowed down again, checked for balance, and that is where this video starts, with 17 minutes left on the timer:
At 14min on the timer, it reaches its super smooth 1550rpm spin. And stays there for 13 minutes, or 780sec. Believe me, this load was super dry. Don't think the bearings are all to happy about it, the backside of the drum got luke warm. But hey, who cares?
The machine it self only jiggles a little during the initial ramp up to 400rpm, otherwise, it's perfectly stable and incredibly quiet.
Rinse and wash results were excelent.
Overall, a really good cycle. I'll do some towels and bedding next week and see how it likes that.
