A total absense of tech would be bad for a washing machine. With a really simple conductivity sensor (basically just two electrodes on the sides of a plastic pipe) and an opacity sensor (an IR LED and an LDR on opposite sides of a clear pipe), you can measure how much stuff is dissolved in water and how much insoluable stuff is suspended. That then means that you can keep circulating the soapy water until it stops getting dirtier, then keep rinsing it out until it stops getting cleaner, which then means you can have the cycle times adjust themselves to how soiled the load is, instead of just making them as long as the worst case scenario might require and wasting energy, water, and time on an average load.
I think ive never seen a washing machine that doesnt do a pre-determined amount of cycles. That exists? And I thought I had a rather sophisticated washing machine.
I think the way it normally would work would be to do the existing steps for a bit longer if necessary or stop them early if possible, but the washing machine I’ve got at the moment sometimes gets its timer all the way to one minute and then adds an extra ten and starts rinsing again. In theory, that should be less likely to happen if you’re separating the washing by soiling levels like the manual says, but some of my family don’t believe the manual.
Ah ok. I havent really read much of mines manual. But i did notice that the timer is often wrong, it seems to go slower than actual time. Would make sense if it is measuring something in the water and just putting an estimated timeon the display. I thought it was just a bad clock…
A total absense of tech would be bad for a washing machine. With a really simple conductivity sensor (basically just two electrodes on the sides of a plastic pipe) and an opacity sensor (an IR LED and an LDR on opposite sides of a clear pipe), you can measure how much stuff is dissolved in water and how much insoluable stuff is suspended. That then means that you can keep circulating the soapy water until it stops getting dirtier, then keep rinsing it out until it stops getting cleaner, which then means you can have the cycle times adjust themselves to how soiled the load is, instead of just making them as long as the worst case scenario might require and wasting energy, water, and time on an average load.
I think ive never seen a washing machine that doesnt do a pre-determined amount of cycles. That exists? And I thought I had a rather sophisticated washing machine.
I think the way it normally would work would be to do the existing steps for a bit longer if necessary or stop them early if possible, but the washing machine I’ve got at the moment sometimes gets its timer all the way to one minute and then adds an extra ten and starts rinsing again. In theory, that should be less likely to happen if you’re separating the washing by soiling levels like the manual says, but some of my family don’t believe the manual.
Ah ok. I havent really read much of mines manual. But i did notice that the timer is often wrong, it seems to go slower than actual time. Would make sense if it is measuring something in the water and just putting an estimated timeon the display. I thought it was just a bad clock…