Edit It’s 17:08 now and it still shows 3 minutes
Edit 2 It’s 17:15 now and it has been on 0 minutes for 3 full minutes…
Those aren’t minutes, they’re drying time units, which last as long as the dryer decides it wants them to last on any particular day.
Who the fuck programs these things? Why even have this measurement if the units are not a fixed length? Just put a light on it that says “done” or “not done”
I mean, I was just being sarcastic, but it seems like that.
These dryers also have a timed function that will allow to to over dry your clothes as much as you’d like. The auto modes use sensors that can detect clothes that still haven’t dried completely as they tumble about. Pretty hard to make precise unless you’re attaching sensors to every article in the dryer.
Prolly also need humidity and temp sensors outside the drum.
It’s an estimation, which I prefer over the vagueness of a done/not done light. I recognize that it’s not specific or reliable for any precision, but having a general idea of when it will be done is useful.
its got the vague precision of a fucking sledgehammer
says 30 minutes, could be 10, could be an hour, who knows
Ah, mine is much better than that. Usually right within 15 minutes or so
Mine typically says 2.5 hours and is done in 1.5-2h. Anyone using estimates on a minute schedule is… gonna have a bad time
Imagine getting so mad at a dryer timer. If you hate it so much don’t look at it and wait until it’s done
I can’t imagine
Now I’m confused, how many drying time units are in a galactic standard week?
I can understand the confusion, drying time units is actually a measure of distance not speed.
Depends how wet the week is.
A washer or dryer is never late. Nor it it early. It finishes precisely when it means to.
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One thing I pride myself on is the ability to see through my dryer’s bullshit. I know that 30 minutes really means 45 you damn liar.
Yeah I should have known, started the thing at 12:26 (actually know this because I called my wife to check if we had 3 hours and 38 minutes before we needed to go), its 17:18 and I just got the door open…
If you haven’t already, clean the dryer vent thoroughly, including the whole exhaust vent leading outside. This should be done at least once a year. Once the vent is clear it should speed up drying, if not it might be the dryer itself and the manual might have solutions.
Here are some guides: https://www.familyhandyman.com/article/how-to-clean-a-dryer-vent/ https://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/home-diy/projects/dryer-vent-cleaning.htm
It took almost 5 hours to the dry the clothes?
It’s a washer and dryer, so it did both
We had one of these combos at an Airbnb I stayed at in Iceland. I’d never seen or used one before and I was flabbergasted to see it took like 4-5 hours to wash and dry the tiniest load of laundry! Not gonna take my big ass washer and dryer for granted anymore haha.
I wish we had the space to have separate machines for washing and drying, it’s a lot better unless if you’re a single guy with minimal amount of clothes to wash.
Even with wife and a toddler it does fine, but you just need to be strategic on what you wash and when
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It was two minutes five minutes ago!
I can’t understand the joke. :/
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I believe it’s from the movie Snatch
I much prefer hang drying.
- Less wear on the clothes
- Basically no energy cost (technically not correct but it’s really whatever)
- Free humidifying during the dry winters
- Fairly satisfying thing to do while listening to a podcast
The primary downside is that it’s no fun to do it when it rains, neither indoors or outdoors, but as long as you time your laundry well enough, it’s all good.
Nothing like spring/summer outdoor fresh dried laundry
It’s -11°F where I am today, my family still lives in Jamaica and I envy their ability to hang their clothes so much.
It should be possible to hang your clothes indoors still, I guess. Outdoors as well I’ve been told, when it’s a bit below freezing, but I’ll admit that I’ve never actually tried that.
I do all the time and it works.
What’s your usual strategy? Any maximum outdoor temperature you aim for, how long do you aim to hang the clothes, etc?
At home I hang most of the clothes, but we where at a short trip and we had some wet towels and swimgear, so de decided to just do one full laundry with most of our wet and dirty clothes. The first duration before I even started the cycle was that it should be done at about 16:10 it was actually done more than an hour later.
Then the lying whore sings a cheerful little tune after it fucked up my schedule.
How can this be an estimation, and how is it so wrong? Doesn’t the program just have a hard-coded length? Or does the time vary based on clothing weight or something? This seems so utterly strange to me.
Seems to be a washing machine. 1600RPM spin dry.
The problem occurs because there are 2 conditions that need to be fulfilled.
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Its programmed to spin at set RPM for 6 mins.
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Before it can initiate a full speed spin it needs to ensure the drum is balanced. If its off balanced it will damage the spin motor and other parts of the machine in short order. (reference old machines that sound like an earthquake during spin cycles). It will keep attempting to adjust the clothes by start-stopping so clothes can fall in place. Only when the vibrations are down to acceptable levels will the machine initiate a full speed spin dry. Machine will stay stuck at set spin time until condition 2 is fulfilled.
The way to fix this is to open up the machine, untangle balled up clothes and allow the spin dry to resume.
I find you get much more accurate estimates when you don’t overstuff the machine. You’re supposed to keep it 60-70% full to allow for proper agitation. Lots of people top it off.
If you read the instructions, on mine anyway, it says a full load is to the top of the basket without pressing down on any of the clothes. I always lay them around in a circular pattern to even out the level of clothes as I’m loading it. My fiancee used to shove as much as she could in there, and it would get off balance and wobble and shake the house. It took a lot of convincing but she finally believed me after I kept pointing out that’s probably why it was happening.
Washing machines (mine anyway) wash by spinning back and forth in water with detergent, so if you stuff it full there’s not much room for any clothes to move and they don’t get very clean and will come out smelling like laundry detergent.
Sounds like you have top load and not front load.
I’m referring to front load machines.
Ref: https://www.wash.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/front-load-max-fill-level.gif
https://www.wash.com/request-help/clothes-not-getting-clean/
Very good reply, just one thing to add, it’s both a washer and dryer, we did a full wash dry cycle.
It’s even harder to estimate two separate things accurately. So many variables
Those are a thing? TIL, how cool!
Even worse… dryers often use a moisture sensor to determine when it is done. Load shifts, sensors gets more moisture, time goes up.
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I assume it weighs it at the start and knows it’s dry when it weighs the same again.
It doesn’t know what the material is. Some dry quicker than others.
That’s actually a very smart way to do that. Couldn’t have thought of that
Our dryer does this to us:
Put clothes in, start it - it estimates 35 units of time. Come back in 15 minutes to check, it says 15 units left. Come back in 15 minutes, it now says 21 units left.
I am, like all of us, unsure of the fundamental nature of time. But the dryer even more so. The units are not one standard length, and they don’t move always in the same direction.
Valve time; the phenomenon is often observed in software development, with some calling it the software development time.
Jokes aside, reading this thread makes me appreciate the old junk for the washing machine I have around here much more - at least it’s accurate with time!
Software development time:
Time to clean your dryer venting.
And camera lens.
and the microphone.
just in case they couldn’t spy correctly anymore.
I’ve never seen a heat pump dryer with an accurate countdown.
Had me in the first half… they’re up there with drawer style microwaves.
My washing machine over-estimates at first, it drops nearly an hour after it gets going. However, it will underestimate later on.
Also, it does this thing where it beeps that it’s starting, doesn’t do anything, then unlocks the door for a few seconds, then locks it again and actually starts. That’s been a life saver for catching that one sock that got left behind and didn’t make it into the drum.
Exactly. It is critical to learn what the machine means when not under time pressure.
Had the exact same experience the other day. Fuck these machines, fuck printers, fuck microwave ovens, fuck software updates and fuck time estimates in general.
Shouldn’t need to be an estimate. The washer and drier are on timers. Use that as the time indicator.
Most dryers these days should be using a moisture sensor, not a timer.
Most dryers give an estimate of time but use a sensor to judge if the clothes are indeed dry.
OP looking down on the unwashed masses after complaining about his fancy washing machine:
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My dryer has a couple different presets which all adjust the remaining time dynamically according to a predetermind dryness level. To get around this, I just use the “custom” setting and change the temperature and timer manually.
Must be a Welsh machine. I’ll be there now, in a minute.
The labelling is in Dutch, so it’s either a Dutch or a Flemish machine.
It was a joke, since the Welsh say “I’ll do it now, straight away” for immediately, but “Now, in a minute” for I’ll do it, but have no estimate of when it will get done.
to go full circle, it’s a samsung eco bubble of sorts. I have one myself as a dutchy and I think it does time itself based on what’s in there so it’s just an estimation.
Yeah, I have the same machine. it will be saying 1 minute left on the spin cycle for 10 minutes.
I much prefer an estimating timer that reliably dries all the clothes rather than a reliable timer that estimates the clothes are dry.
mine does neither
unreliably estimates how long it will take for my clothes to be unreliably dry
Two common issues, aside from bad design, are clogged dryer vents and temperature sensors covered in fabric softener
Our washer does this too though
It might weigh it before washing, then keep doing the spin cycle until the weight gets close enough to the starting weight
Good shout. Most of the cycles do their best to get rid of excess moisture
I see you bought a dryer that’s in Hawaiian time
No worries, just go with the flow it’ll work out
Fun fact though typically the last little bit of drying in the dryer is just cool down time, so just reach in there and grab those toasty boxers, you’ll be fine
