superelectronic
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LCB compartment in UK Candy P6...
...there was a kind of dead area behind the conditioner compartment I imagine would have been for LCB but it wan't really set up for use and didn't have the push-button drain.
The UK version was definitely hot and cold fill, though I know there was a Candy range called "Candy Cold Fill" for customers who maybe didn't have suitable hot water supplies - e.g. single point instantaneous heaters over the sink. I don't think the bio-profile wash generated by heating from cold was a big draw 25-30 years ago unlike the way it's marketed today, plus machines were of course a little thirstier so H&C fill made more sense for the average British householder.
I doubt anyone in the UK would have considered washing in cold water until recently hence the no-heat wash button was probably dropped for our market.
Timed fill seems to be a feature of European made washers until fairly recently - indeed, my current Blomberg-style washer uses it for high water level processes BUT it does have a safety feature - if I try and trick it into using timed fill twice in a row without draining it trips the drain pump automatically and drain/fill is alternated once the tub is exactly half full of water. Clearly no such saftey feature was in the Candy! I'm guessing it was all a way of saving money on a pressure switch with more than one level - maybe just small load level was triggered by the pressure sensor then timer took over thereafter. The Candy only really had two levels as I recall. Seems a crazy and unsafe system to me...though pressure sensors can fail too if blocked with scale.
Thanks again
Alex
...there was a kind of dead area behind the conditioner compartment I imagine would have been for LCB but it wan't really set up for use and didn't have the push-button drain.
The UK version was definitely hot and cold fill, though I know there was a Candy range called "Candy Cold Fill" for customers who maybe didn't have suitable hot water supplies - e.g. single point instantaneous heaters over the sink. I don't think the bio-profile wash generated by heating from cold was a big draw 25-30 years ago unlike the way it's marketed today, plus machines were of course a little thirstier so H&C fill made more sense for the average British householder.
I doubt anyone in the UK would have considered washing in cold water until recently hence the no-heat wash button was probably dropped for our market.
Timed fill seems to be a feature of European made washers until fairly recently - indeed, my current Blomberg-style washer uses it for high water level processes BUT it does have a safety feature - if I try and trick it into using timed fill twice in a row without draining it trips the drain pump automatically and drain/fill is alternated once the tub is exactly half full of water. Clearly no such saftey feature was in the Candy! I'm guessing it was all a way of saving money on a pressure switch with more than one level - maybe just small load level was triggered by the pressure sensor then timer took over thereafter. The Candy only really had two levels as I recall. Seems a crazy and unsafe system to me...though pressure sensors can fail too if blocked with scale.
Thanks again
Alex