Washing machine dual feed
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You used to be able to buy a Y adaptor, to enable both inlets to be fed from the cold. It will work fine, fed with both inlets from cold.
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Oh I wish, my washing machine is only cold fill, so have to use electric to heat the water when the washer decides it wants it, not when the sun decides to shine.
Hot fill means you can use water heated by gas, oil, or solar, but cold fill means it uses a full 2 kW to heat water, so unless you have a battery to store solar, it uses power from the grid so costs more to run, so why would you want cold fill only?
Hot fill means you can use water heated by gas, oil, or solar, but cold fill means it uses a full 2 kW to heat water, so unless you have a battery to store solar, it uses power from the grid so costs more to run, so why would you want cold fill only?
It will likely need water flowing in via the hot connection, yes. With no water going in at all, it will likely stall the machine. It will turn on the hot valve, then expect to mix hot with cold, to get the water temperature down to the correct temperature. If the water is too cold, then it will heat the water up, then begin the wash.
Blank it off - no, there should be no need.
Yes! It seems the only way..
Washing machines used to use/need a lot more hot water than they did, so they had hot and cold fill. More modern ones use so little, that by the time the hot has progressed through the house pipe work, to the machine, a lot of hot will be wasted. So modern machines do not usually bother with a hot connection.
If you use 40C or lower wash cycles the hot water valve will never open.
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