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Originally Posted by ERD50 View Post
Agree, it's just in the front versus top loader, it seems to me I see a much more divided response than most other products.
I haven't seen an unusual amount of diversity of responses for washing machines, despite looking for it when we made our purchase..
And I have!
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Originally Posted by ERD50 View Post
Post #20 for one.
Post #20 was a poster who preferred a front loader and said that the overall time for them was the same.
I guess you edited out
""Emphasis on "for one"." before I quoted you - were you expecting a comprehensive all-inclusive list of any/all occurrences on the interent?
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Originally Posted by ERD50 View Post
But DW claims she rarely waits for the dryer, so this would seem to extend total time for us.
That's not logical. The statement you're referring to said that we noted no change, so if DW rarely waits for the dryer now then our experience would indicate that DW would rarely wait for the dryer then.
It is perfectly logical, and correct for the situation I described. I stated :
"But DW claims she rarely waits for the dryer, so this would seem to extend total time for us. I can't comment on others."
So since we rarely wait for the dryer, the dryer is not the critical resource, the washer is. So if washing time is extended, it makes no difference
to us in overall clock time start-to-finish if the dryer time is shortened. The shorter dryer time would come into play only on the time for last load to dry, and we typically do multiple loads in a day, so that has less of an impact overall. Also, nothing is waiting on the last load to dry, so it isn't an issue anyhow. So under that scenario, a longer wash time extends the wash day.
You don't need to wait for the dryer to finish before you start the next wash load - those go in parallel. Maybe you need to map this out on paper to see the effect of a longer wash time when the dry time is not the limiting resource?
A lot of my career was involved with process optimization - I understand bottleneck analysis
. And as I made abundantly clear, this is for our conditions, other people may have different scenarios and may make different decisions based on that.
At any rate, I'm not trying to attempt to convince you of anything (well, other than you were wrong to say my statement was illogical
), I've been doing my research and applying it to our situation so I can try to convince
myself of the proper path
for us, and I will continue along those lines. You'll have to decide what is best
for you.
-ERD50