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> A warm-air dryer is relatively ineffective when laundry is dripping wet, but is quite good at removing final traces of moisture. I thought that’s what the ce
by ComputerGuru 3y ago
> A warm-air dryer is relatively ineffective when laundry is dripping wet, but is quite good at removing final traces of moisture.
I thought that’s what the centrifugal action was for (even with no heat involved); basically emulating gravity to get the clothes to “drip” outward into the perforations. I imagine it achieves greater than 1g making it actually more effective than traditional drip drying?
- dredmorbius 3y agoHigh-speed spin is a feature of top-load, or even more so, front-load washing machines. The latter will spin at 900--1200 RPM, and the resulting laundry is best described as "damp" rather than the "wet" of a top-loader, which typically spins at about 800 RPM. <https://www.hunker.com/12003102/how-fast-does-a-washing-machine-spin-clothes https://www.hunker.com/12003102/how-fast-does-a-washing-mach...> The tumbling motion of a hot-air dryer is more to circulate the laundry and expose it to airflow than to generate centrifugal drying. Note that airflow alone will dry clothes (though more slowly), and that leaving your dryer on a low-heat setting is not that much slower, whilst it tends to be far less harsh on fabrics. Much of laundry wear occurs in the dryer rather than the washing machine.