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希望有条件的朋友能够做试验。
这是一个美国人的滚筒试验报告,可以参考。
I finally got around to running some detailed spin tests in my AEG.
For this series, rather than 10 lbs. of regular cottons, I decided to use around 6 lbs. of fluffy absorbent bath towels. This will of course (presumably anyway) result in a higher RMC at any given spin speed, but should serve to clearly illustrate the differences in spin effectiveness of various rpms... and it was a lot easier to work with 5 bath towels, than a big pile of T-shirts, etc!
I should pause here, to mention the "Official Testing Procedure For Clothes Washers", as it pertains to RMC. If you check out this pdf file:
http://www.eren.doe.gov/building ... ule/clwshr_rule.pdf
you can see some detailed calculations and tables on the subject, down toward the end of the document. Note that the column headers on the main RMC table on p.3332 are mixed up - you can see the correct headers in the "sample table" immediately preceding. In short, a higher rpm gives a lower RMC... as does a longer spin... as does a warm rinse. And while you rapidly get diminishing returns with ever-higher spin speeds, moving up to 500+ gravities of spin does in fact make a significant difference...
To measure fabric weights, I used a digital kitchen scale, with a resolution of 0.1 oz. During my tests, I repeated each measurement at least twice, nearly always getting the same result, and always getting readings within 0.1 oz. Unfortunately, this particular scale has a max capacity of 80 oz., so I had to divide up each batch of towels into multiple weighings. I was concerned that this might introduce additional error into the data, but as described below, I took measurements several different ways, and found the results to be highly consistent.
First, to get a baseline, "dry" weight of these towels. The five towels used for this experiment were clean and dry, sitting in a bedroom closet. Five bath towels, as I mentioned. They are a mixture of sizes, although all are "full size" bath towels. All are at least a year old, so there's now very little linting in a given wash cycle (i.e. the "new towel shedding phase" has passed, LOL), and yet they're in good condition, nicely absorbent, with no fraying or significant wear.
I placed the towels on the scale in two groups, first 3 and then the other 2, to get under the 80 oz. limit. Got a total weight of 62.5 + 36.6 = 99.1 oz. Wanting to verify the accuracy of this scale and the overall technique, I re-grouped the towels and weighed again (remember these are all slightly different sizes): got a total weight of 57.9 + 41.2 = 99.1 oz. So far, so good!
Now, as is mentioned in that pdf document, it's important to get the truly "bone dry" fabric weight, and not include any residual humidity absorbed by the towels in storage. At the moment, Southern California weather is dominated by "June gloom" high-humidity conditions much of the time (I measured around 60% humidity in my living room yesterday). And of course these towels were stored near a bathroom, where it would be easy to gain an extra few percent RMC.
So, into the Lavatherm 57700 dryer, on a 40 minute timed dry program. Took them out, and found a total weight of 59.8 + 36.2 = 96.0 oz. Verified as 60.6 + 35.4 = 96.0 oz. Checked the small amount of lint trapped on the lint filter, and found it to register as 0.0 oz., below measurable limits. So apparently 96.0 oz. is the true "dry weight" here (I didn't plan on using exactly six pounds, although it's nice to have things turn out as nice round numbers). And thus, the fabrics in my closet (at least these towels) presently have an RMC of 3.3%.
It should be pointed out that these tests may not quite measure up to the DOE procedures, since the 57700 dryer is a condenser model, which may not be able to "bake" fabrics absolutely dry. But I think this should be more than sufficient for our purposes... and FWIW, this long timed cycle did leave the towels feeling really dry, sort of stiff and rough, which would seem to be indicative of near-total dryness. As an aside, this also shows why it's generally not good to dry fabrics this much in a tumble dryer - even in normal room conditions, clothes will usually have at least a few percent RMC, and if you use one of the slightly damp dry cycles, fabrics really will tend to feel better.
OK, now on to the actual spin tests! I used the "STARCHING" cycle in my AEG 88840, which consists of: one rinse, plus the standard spin program that concludes normal wash cycles. Timing each cycle carefully, I found each rinse to always be 6 minutes long, while the spin routine, depending on how long it took to tumble and balance everything, varied from 13 to 18 minutes in duration. The AEG spin routine spins up, slows down, pauses, tumbles, re-distributes multiple times before finally hitting the final spin at the rated speed, which is 4-4.5 minutes long. I also selected the "VARIOMATIC LOOSE SPIN" option, which supposedly helps reduce wrinkling and sticking to the drum walls, through increased variation in spin speeds. I'm still not sure how well this really lives up to its stated purpose, but I often leave it enabled, so this testing was performed with "VARIO" on.
I ran cycles with spins of 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200, 1400, and 1800 rpm final spins (the 88840 doesn't offer a 1600 rpm spin via the controls). The methodology was to take the "baked dry" towels, then put them into the 400rpm spin test... then remove them and weigh them... then back into the washer, for the 600rpm test... and so on, weighing the towels after each cycle completed. Results:
400rpm - 195.9 oz. total = 99.9 oz. H2O = 104.1% RMC
(yes, this is WET! It should be noted that with the 400rpm option, some of the mid-cycle pre-spins were faster than the 400rpm final spin, so a machine that truly used 400rpm would give even worse performance!)
600rpm - 178.0 oz. total = 82.0 oz. H2O = 85.4% RMC
800rpm - 156.5 oz. total = 60.5 oz. H2O = 63.0% RMC
1000rpm - 151.7 oz. total = 55.7 oz. H2O = 58.0% RMC
1200rpm - 148.8 oz. total = 52.8 oz. H2O = 55.0% RMC
1400rpm - 144.0 oz. total = 48.0 oz. H2O = 50.0% RMC
1800rpm - the first run at this speed couldn't manage to balance perfectly for the final spin, despite several minutes of trying. The final speed sounded like about 1200rpm, or maybe a bit more, and sure enough:
"1800rpm" - 147.6 oz. total = 51.6 oz. H2O = 53.8% RMC
so, I ran the 1800rpm cycle again...
1800rpm - 141.9 oz. total = 45.9 oz. H2O = 47.8% RMC
(this time, the full 1800 rpm was indeed reached. Btw, with all sub-1800rpm speed selections, the washer ramps up fairly quickly to the rated speed, and holds it for most of the 4+ minute final spin. But with 1800, it ramps up more slowly, through what sounds like 1200-1400-1600, and only does 1800 for the last minute or so. This still works well, but is perhaps not quite as effective as a "full blown" 1800 might be. Further investigation of this would doubtless require a commercial centrifuge or Spin-X, etc...)
As a final confirmation all these figures were accurate, I then put the towels back into the Lavatherm dryer, on a COTTONS, EXTRA-DRY cycle. When that finished, I took them out, fluffed them, and put them back in for a 20 minute timed dry. Weighed the final results, and got: 58.4 + 37.8 = 96.2 oz., only 0.2 oz. different than the initial baseline! I again weighed the small amount of fluff from the lint filter, and again found it to be negligible, "0.0 oz.". So, it would indeed appear that all this is quite accurate, certainly reliable enough for this purpose.
Conclusion... while a "high speed" (1400rpm+) Euro obviously provides a HUGE performance jump over the average sub-600rpm TLer, and a significant advantage over 800rpm base model FLers, there's only a modest advantage over a 1200rpm machine. If you have high utility rates or do a lot of laundry, this may still add up to a non-trivial savings over the life of the machine... but I don't think I'd pay too much of a premium, purely for ultra-high spin speeds.
Of course, as you know, another major reason to consider washers with better spin performance (aside from energy-efficiency) is more effective rinsing! I haven't run these tests yet (and still lack a TDS meter), but I can report that based on general observations, it sure looks like the AEG 88840 does very well in this department! Some mid-cycle spins reach at least 1000-1200 rpm, at least as far as I can tell, which should indeed help to remove a lot more of that pesky detergent residue! Time permitting, I'll be posting some additional test results along these lines later this week. |
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