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What's up with exploding top loaders?!
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Sun, Apr 8, 12 at 12:32
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RE: What's up with exploding top loaders?!
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| It's obvious, either a sensor is missing or not sensitive enough to sense the tub banging the walls with in it's enclosure...plain and simple. The washer manufacturers really need to come to there senses and do something before someone gets hurt or killed. This is a very easy fix. |
RE: What's up with exploding top loaders?!
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| Wait until one of these machines bumps the gas line loose on the back of a dryer and takes out a city block. Then something will be done about it. Until then, the manufactures will cry "Operator Error" MRB |
RE: What's up with exploding top loaders?!
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if its got enough energy to blow up then its got enough energy to get clothes really clean.
plus you get a new one if it blows up. win win. |
RE: What's up with exploding top loaders?!
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| "if its got enough energy to blow up then its got enough energy to get clothes really clean." How do you figure? These washers "exploded" during the spin cycle. The ability to spin a load at high RPM has nothing to do with the cleaning ability of the machine. |
RE: What's up with exploding top loaders?!
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| Except that it is gonna take the dryer out with it. Plus some drywall along the way. Lose-Lose if you ask me. MRB |
RE: What's up with exploding top loaders?!
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| ah, knot2fast, I think they were joking!!! |
RE: What's up with exploding top loaders?!
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| Some folks wouldn't know a joke if they woke up in bed with it. |
RE: What's up with exploding top loaders?!
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| My first thought was it might simply be a physics problem caused by essentially laying a front load design on its back but several front loaders in the UK and Germany seem to have had similar issues. |
Here is a link that might be useful: No Recall For Exploding Machines
RE: What's up with exploding top loaders?!
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| This issue was brought up by a German consumer magazine that actually tests washers for durability by letting them run through over 1.000 cycles. In their lab, two of three Candy washers blew up during the final spin after several hundred cycles. The third one was taken off the test for obvious safety reasons. Too bad Consumer Reports doesn't perform such tests. Alex |
RE: What's up with exploding top loaders?!
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RE: What's up with exploding top loaders?!
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| Has anybody noticed that it is ALWAYS a comforter or a mattress pad that is in the machine when it explodes???? Even front loaders don't like them, but at least they deal with them... |
RE: What's up with exploding top loaders?!
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| Yes, always something bulky in there. Still don't see why there is no off-balance switch. Fisher&Paykel's top loaders have them: if the basket oscillates too much, the spin cycle stops immediately. Doesn't seen to be anything like this on the LG. |
RE: What's up with exploding top loaders?!
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| I saw on you tube a Cabrio that was starting to get unbalanced. It bumped around a few times, then shut itself off. Maybe some of the T/L HE machines have switches, just not LG. I was thinking LG built the GE Harmony and never heard of any of those "exploding". Maybe they have a switch? I think the people are washing these large items on Normal, like they would in a conventional T/L washer instead of using the "Bulky" cycle. At least the Bulky would use a lower spin speed and maybe less damage if it did get off balance. They still need a switch to stop it in any cycle/any model JMO. |
RE: What's up with exploding top loaders?!
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| F&P phase 7 machines (AquaSmart, and GWL15 & later agitator models) no longer have a physical OOB switch. OOB is sensed via motor control software. |
RE: What's up with exploding top loaders?!
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| I noticed while watching a few of the exploding LG vids, there was one titled " This is why the Samsung Top Load is better", or something like that... So I watched it. The person who posted the video points at the fact that Samsung uses steel suspension mounts and LG's mounts are plastic. In all the exploded washer videos all the offending washers had broken suspension mounts... Could be that LG is cutting corners on these machines... He also mentioned that Samsungs cabinet is structurally stronger than LGs as well. Notice that LG cabinets are twisted and buckled in the videos as well. |
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