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Posted by marson on July 28, 2007, 9:58 am
I just purchased a brand new Amana washing machine. It is a basic top
loader, with a manual temperature control (doesn't sense the
temperature of the water) It has 4 settings: cold, cool, warm, hot.
Here's the data:
incoming hot: 117 F
incoming cold: 53 F
cold setting: 53 F
cool setting 53 F
warm 81
hot 117
My complaint is that warm is cool and cool is cold. Seems like "cool"
is not adding any hot water to the mix at all. Is this a defective
valve, or are they just going to tell me to turn up the HW temp?
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Posted by on July 28, 2007, 10:24 am
> I just purchased a brand new Amana washing machine. It is a basic top
> loader, with a manual temperature control (doesn't sense the
> temperature of the water) It has 4 settings: cold, cool, warm, hot.
>
> Here's the data:
>
> incoming hot: 117 F
> incoming cold: 53 F
>
> cold setting: 53 F
> cool setting 53 F
> warm 81
> hot 117
>
> My complaint is that warm is cool and cool is cold. Seems like "cool"
> is not adding any hot water to the mix at all. Is this a defective
> valve, or are they just going to tell me to turn up the HW temp?
My guess is that's the way it works and the cool setting is really the
same as cold. The only way to know for sure is to call or email
them.
A quick search and all I could find were these guidelines:
hot 130+
warm 90-100
cold 60-80
You can raise the warm temp a bit by adjusting the hot valve all the
way open and reducint the cold supply a bit. However, that also
obviously increases the fill time and will reduce the amount of water
that will spray out during the rinse/spin, where it sprays in cold
water while the tub is spinning , so I wouldn't cut it back too much.
I'd probably raise the hot water up to about 125-130, which is the min
recommended for dishwashers. I went for a model that has the
automatic temp adjustment. In cold climates, in winter the incoming
cold can down to 40s, so during the wash fill, mine will be adding hot
to bring it up.
Also, just came back from France/Italy. Over there on the machines I
used the temp setting is adjustable over about 5 steps or so and
marked in deg C.
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Posted by David Martel on July 28, 2007, 10:42 am
Marson,
It's new, it's under warranty, help should be a phone call away. Did the
delivery guy install it? Did he use new hoses? Are the hoses partially
kinked ?
Dave M.
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Posted by Doug Miller on July 28, 2007, 11:09 am
>I just purchased a brand new Amana washing machine. It is a basic top
>loader, with a manual temperature control (doesn't sense the
>temperature of the water) It has 4 settings: cold, cool, warm, hot.
>
>Here's the data:
>
>incoming hot: 117 F
>incoming cold: 53 F
>
>cold setting: 53 F
>cool setting 53 F
>warm 81
>hot 117
>
>My complaint is that warm is cool and cool is cold. Seems like "cool"
>is not adding any hot water to the mix at all. Is this a defective
>valve, or are they just going to tell me to turn up the HW temp?
Turn up the HW temp. 117 F isn't hot enough; should be at least 125-130.
--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
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Posted by David Martel on July 28, 2007, 6:26 pm
Nick,
Clothes washers are not meant to sterilize clothing. Does Feachem
actually recommend this temp for washing clothes? If you must have germ free
clothing wouldn't it be better to gas sterilize after the clothes were
washed and dried? This sounds like massive overkill to me.
Dave M.
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