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Washing Machines 1 There are a wide variety of washing machines available to choose from. One feature that should always take preference when deciding on a new washing machine is inverter technology. This wonderful technological development brings with it a host of benefits, including lowered power and water consumption.

3D Technology

Intelligent Inverter technology, developed by Panasonic, now uses 3D technology to increase efficiency. Many new models feature 3D sensors, a tilted drum and dedicated wash cycles, more advanced than ever before seen. The pre-programmed wash cycles make operation a breeze for even the inexperienced homemaker. The tilted drum allows you to save up to a reported 30% total on your water bill, whereas the power savings can amount to 50%

Green technology

Eco-washing machines, green washing machines and other earth-friendly devices have been ever growing in popularity yet none can compare to the green benefits offered by Panasonic models. For many years this trusted manufacturer has been pushing the bounds of technology in an attempt to make their washing machines faster, smarter, more stylish and extremely economical. The Intelligent Inverter technology now present in Panasonic washing machines guarantees these features and more. The motor used by these washers run extremely cool and quiet. Even when the machine is running a spin cycle at the full 1400 rpm, barely a sound can be heard. The optimal power level is automatically set, as is the water level, according to the load placed into the machine. Washing Machines 2

Your first choice

There are so many factors that make Panasonic washing machines a great choice. There are few other brands that offer the flexibility, style and efficiency of those sold by Panasonic. The next time you are considering a new addition to your home laundry, you should definitely take a look at the great range of intelligent washing machines on offer from Panasonic.

One of the most useful household appliances is the washing machine. With this clothes washer, housewives no longer have to rely on manual hand washing which is quite difficult, time-consuming and does not remove all the soap filtrate. When fabrics are not cleaned well, accumulated residue draws more dirt that turn into discoloration or stains. The best washing machine washes clothing in big volumes within a shorter duration. There is no need to struggle with heavy blankets, bed sheets, dresses and pants. Besides, there is no need for prolonged drying since the wash machine has a built-in dryer.

The best washing machines have two essential components which are the control and mechanical systems. The parts of washer control mechanism are control boards, timer, pressure switch, lid switch and selector for water temperature. On the other hand, mechanical elements consist of solenoid valve, inner tub, outer tub, pump, suspension system, water valve, clutch, and motor coupling.

The washing machine can clean clothes with the use of a washing detergent and water. The method of pushing water permeated with the powdered laundry soap loosens the dirt and detaches it from the textile. Contemporary appliances such as the Whirlpool washing machine utilize a form of suspension made up of pads, springs and slide plates. These ensure that the wash tub maintains an appropriate position and regulates the force needed for the spinning function. It minimizes the volume of noise caused by the washer workings.

Certain washing machines make use of control boards rather than the timer device. This facilitates the accurate control of washer’s operations. The control board stimulates washing machine parts at the correct time. However, machine control boards are automated and to some extent more difficult to analyze and costly to change. The washing machine is also expensive but this depends on the features and volume of clothes that can be accommodated.

If you’ve been noticing a strange and rather unpleasant smell coming from your washing machine lately, it may just be time to wash the actually machine itself. That musty, moldy smell that can build in a washing machine over time is not only unpleasant but can be left in your clothes leaving them anything but clean and fresh.

There’s no need to ditch the washing machine and shop for a new one, instead you can clean it with a simple homemade solution. As well, instead of waiting for the smell to build up, it’s a good idea to use the solution on a regular basis as part of a maintenance and preventative program.

If you wash a lot of towels and heavily soiled laundry you’ll find that smell won’t take long to build. Leaving the door to the machine open after each wash, to allow the machine to air dry, definitely helps but the machine takes a beating when it comes to odor.

A simple cleaning solution you can make involves white vinegar and baking soda. Combined these two ingredients do an excellent job of removing odors in a natural way.

Washing Machine Cleaning Instructions:

Step 1:

Mix 2 cups of white vinegar with 1/2 cup of baking soda.

Step 2:

Add the mixture to the detergent container and set the water temperature to hot.

Step 3:

Set the machine to a full wash cycle and let it go.

Step 4:

Once the cycle has finished, use a clean damp cloth to wipe the inside of the machine clean.

Step 5:

To make sure there is no residue left, run a cycle of cold water to rinse it well.

After completing this process there should be no odor left. If an odor still lingers, repeat the entire process again. Please note, if you don’t have any white vinegar you can substitute with lemon juice instead.

Because this cleaning solution is gentle and doesn’t harm the machine it is a good idea to do it on a regular basis, even once a month, preventing the smell from building up in the first place.

There are ready made store bought cleaning solutions as well, but a homemade solution will save you plenty of money and are likely ingredients you have on hand at all times with no special trip to the store needed.

There are other things you can do to help stop the smell from building. If you use your cold water setting to wash clothes, less residue will build up in the washing machine which means less odor building. Another thing you can do is to make sure you don’t use too much soap (powder or liquid) in the washing machine. Again a smell can start building up if you continually add too much soap. Leaving your clothes in the washing machine for long periods of time once the cycle has finished will also create a bad smell as well as a bacteria growth. It’s important that as soon as the wash cycle finishes you empty the machine and let it air dry.

When I asked my Mum how a washing machine worked, she described all her actions to load the machine, put in the powder, and then press the buttons. I said that I meant the machine, not her. She replied that every Monday (the standard British post-war wash day) she became a de facto washing machine- because there was so much she had to do- the washing machine wasn’t that sophisticated in 1967! She had a Hotpoint “Twin Tub” that meant you had to take the clothes out of the washing drum and put them in the dryer drum. In those days very few machines could spin clothes dry in the same machine drum!

Ok. Here’s a very basic guide to what happens in a washing machine.

The basic idea of a clothes washer is simple: it sloshes your clothes about in soap suds for a while and then spins fast to remove the water afterward. But there’s more to it than that. Think of a clothes washer and you probably think of a big drum that fills with water—but there are actually two drums, one inside the other. Bet you didn’t know that?

The inner drum is the one you can see when you open the door or the lid. In a front-loading clothes washer, very common in Europe, the drum stands upright. You push your clothes inside the door from the front and the whole drum rotates about a horizontal axis. The drum has lots of small holes to let water in and out and paddles around the edge to slosh the clothes around. Just like beating the dirt out of the clothes with a stone at the river’s edge in olden days! In a toploading washing machine, more common in the United States and Asia, you open a lip on top and drop your clothes into the drum from above. The drum is mounted about a vertical axis but doesn’t actually move. Instead, there’s a paddle in the middle of it called an agitator that turns the clothes around in the water. In some ways it’s surprising two relatively different ways of the sdrums being used have evolved. It may be something to do with there being more space in homes in the US and Asia and therefore the washing machine can be in a separate room (the utility or wash room). In the UK, most washing machines are sited under a work surface in the kitchen and therefore have to be loaded from the front.

There’s a second, bigger drum outside the inner drum that you cannot see. Its job is to hold the water while the inner drum (in a front-loader) or the agitator (in a toploader) rotates. Unlike the inner drum, the outer drum has to be completely water-tight—or you’d have water all over the floor! In fact it was a regular feature of the Twin Tub of my Mum’s that the rubber tube that was supposed to flush away the water became detached or separated, resulting in water all over the kitchen floor. That’s because the Twin Tub wasn’t plugged in. You had to fill it and empty it yourself.

The two drums are the most important parts of a clothes washer, but there are other vital bits too. There’s a thermometer mechanism called a thermostat to test the temperature of the incoming water and a heating element that heats the water up to the temperature required. Then there’s n electrically operated pump that removes water from the drum when the wash is over. The complicated bit of electronics is the controls that depending on what setting you chose, programme the mechanical and electrical parts of the machine which makes the various parts of the clothes washer go through a series of steps to wash, rinse, and spin your clothes. At the back or side of the machine are two water pipes that let clean hot and cold water into the machine and a third larger waste pipe that lets the dirty water out again. This latter pipe is isually connected to a waste pipe that goes outside to a drain.All of these pipeshave valves on them that allow the programme to open and shut them in accordance with the particular washing cycle. There will be a tray for you to put in the soap, be it liquid or powder, and usually one also for a fabric conditioner and bleach for whites.

Finally there’s a door that will lock when the washing cycle has started, and cannot normally be opened until the wash has finished.

The cycles themselves can be simple (wet, wash,rinse dry) or have a lot of extra steps in them.

I was familiar with Panasonic being a household name when it came to music and entertainment products; televisions, video recorders, CD players and the like. But I hadn’t realised that they thay had a large range of other electrical products that were nothing to do with entertainment- that is unless you get your kicks from watching a washing machine drum going round and round…

In fact Panasonic washing machines were one of the earliest products manufactured by Pansonic, in one if its earlier incarnations; “National” (later to become “National Panasonic” and then just “Panasonic”.

Konosuke Matsushita instructed his employees to develop and market a washing machine, saying that “a washing machine is an important product that frees housewives from the heavy labor of housework.” He made this remark after he came back from a study tour of the U.S. market in 1951. Production of the first agitator-type washing machine, the MW-101with a 2.0-kg capacity, featuring a round enameled tank and an on-off switch, started in September 1951.

Let’s jump forward 60 years to see how things have developed, by lookin at one of their latest models, released in September 2011, the NA-140VX3WGB.

This is a fully automatic washing machine. It has 3D sensors, and gives the best possible wash for the least energy. This leads to a top energy rating of A+++. I wonder what the MW-101 had?!

This machine as something called HydroActive+ technology which in practice means 5 point multi-directional showers coming from 5 directions. This gives maximum cleaning and rinsing. The “Perfect Sense” technology detects precisely the amount of clothes to reduce waste of water and get the best washing results. The 3D Sensor Wash analyses the movement of the drum, detecting the movement of the laundry in the machine and making adjustments to enable the laundry to tumble from the optimal position. It’s almost like having someone inside your machine, constantly watching, weighing, measuring and adjusting. Like a robotic hand wash with knobs on!

The big load capacity of 10 kg and the 34 cm large aperture make it easy to load and wash big volumes of clothes. That’s 5 times the capcity of the original washing machine from 1951
It has a number of easy-to-use washing cycles. The advanced Stain Master technology provides 23 stain treatments to choose from to get rid of the toughest of common stains – from coffee to make-up to red wine, the washing machine does the math and the hard work! A new intuitive LCD screen on the front of the machine shows the programme you are using, the time left in the cycle as well as the temperature and spin speed, putting you in total control of every wash.

Is it noisy? No. Thanks to the Inverter brushless motor the machine achieves 53 db only for washing and 72 dB for spinning.

The Child lock function keeps the door locked so it cannot be opened while the machine is running and it locks the buttons to prevent children from changing programmes.

This latest technology sells for around the £500 mark, but is the ultimate in washing machine technology. Quiet, efficient, and hardworking, what more could you want from your washday companion?

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