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I don’t want a 2.5-3 hour dry cycle ??? That's excessively long. Our heat-pump dryer takes about 20-30 minutes to do one of our loads.* The dryer invariably e
by simonblack 3y ago
I don’t want a 2.5-3 hour dry cycle
??? That's excessively long. Our heat-pump dryer takes about 20-30 minutes to do one of our loads.* The dryer invariably ends up waiting for the washer to finish.
* Our loads aren't excessively tight in the machine. You have to allow room for the clothes to tumble loosely thus allowing lots of surface area for evaporation.
- sokoloff 3y agoI quickly googled for “how long does a heat pump dryer cycle take” and got several answers in the 2.5-3 hour range, which is long enough to provoke complaints. Obviously, if every heat pump dryer took 20-30 minutes, you would not hear complaints about that (that’s much faster than my gas dryer).
- simonblack 3y agoPower-input. US dryers would typically work on 110 volts mains. Those similar dryers in the EU or Australia are working on 220 volts mains. Took me a while to click on why the great differences in working-times. 15 amps wiring in the US means 1650 watts, the same wiring in EU is 3300 watts.
- sokoloff 3y agoThat's not it. Electric dryers in the US are overwhelmingly 240V and on a 30A breaker. At 80% of rated, that's 5.7kW available. (Gas dryers here are typically on a 120V, 15A circuit.) Every heat pump dryer I looked at on the home center's website is 240V. (Edit: I found one Miele on another home center that was a 15A@120V.)