Confusing cycles on a Candy Tumble Dryer

[andyr123]

I have found our Candy H-on wifi condenser tumble dryer confusing from day one in the way it works on the cycles - oh for the days when you can select 'hi/low' heat in the app you just have this efficiency guesswork of 'Max' 'high' 'medium' and 'low' - low efficiency it looks like is high heat from what i can make out.

I just want 1kw, at 'extra dry' sensor at around 1hr30 or so (I realise it will take longer than that for 1kw instead of 2kw element, and am prepared for that) but even the ECO setting (which you would think would give you 1kw) will not let you select 'extra dry' the highest sensor level it will let you have is 'Hang' - so the cottons still feel like they come out a bit damp , not extra dry.

also if I select 'delicates' or synthetics the drum and door get really hot like its on full heat - even though the app reports it dries at a low temperature.

The dryer is condenser type - our old condenser Hoover tumble drier throughout the drying cycle would reverse tumble in both directions to avoid tangles and help dry the clothes quicker and evenly .
this Candy goes one way round (clockwise) for a few minutes , stops (and then you think its going to go anticlockwise), and then a second or 2 goes clockwise again , this is all cycles (even though the phone app says some cycles have special drum action) - its always clockwise! - I had an inkling HeatPump dryers work in this way not reverse tumbling through the cycle and thats one of the reasons I avoided buying a HeatPump dryer for that reason.

I can see (although of course it will void warranty) of me having to put in some kind of 20amp wall switch in the circuit to change the element from 2kw to 1kw (if it doesnt throw up an error on the display) so that I can get my 1kw instead of 2kw but still have 'extra dry' sensor drying .

i have the dryer at the moment through an extension lead cable (yes I know you are not supposed to use tumble dryers through extension lead) so i would rather have the heater at 1kw at over an hour and 30mins rather than 2kw which i think over time can overheat plug.

 

[foxhole]

Let the mrs do it.

 

[blup]

There’s a heatwave coming, peg ‘em out to dry

 

[andyr123]

There’s a heatwave coming, peg ‘em out to dry

there always issues of a dark rain cloud here in Ireland, or a bird ****es on the clothes, or the wind blows them off the line , or the neighbours light a fire so they come back in smelling of smoke - plus I like wearing tumble dried items rather than line dried ... its softer

 

[blup]

there always issues of a dark rain cloud here in Ireland, or a bird ****es on the clothes, or the wind blows them off the line , or the neighbours light a fire so they come back in smelling of smoke - plus I like wearing tumble dried items rather than line dried ... its softer

I dried my clothes in an Irish wind on holiday, they were dry in minutes

 

[ericmark]

there always issues of a dark rain cloud here in Ireland, or a bird ****es on the clothes, or the wind blows them off the line , or the neighbours light a fire so they come back in smelling of smoke - plus I like wearing tumble dried items rather than line dried ... its softer

Yes I have same problem, I use the sun to dry the clothes, the sun shines on the solar panels, and the electric produced runs the clothes drier.

I moved from a very simple drier, vented, to a complex condenser heat pump drier. The old one had a switch at back, 1 kW or 2 kW and a reset button at the back, which on 2 kW would often trip. So always used on 1 kW setting, and a timer with max time of 90 minutes, and most of the time that was enough, sometimes needed to be put on again as not quite dry, the drum was a bit on the small size, so if a full washing machine load, the drying may need to be split, but normally it would all go in.

Moved house, so either I needed a hole boring in the wall, or window open, used the latter, and wife wanted the window closed, so swapped to a new heat pump dryer, as this would allow it to be fitted above the washer, not against an outside wall, and it also auto worked out how long it needed to run for. Just a small drain pipe in same drain as washing machine, so window could be closed.

So seems two drying temperatures 60-65°C or 50-55°C, 15 programs but all use either of two temperatures, the other change is "Max. Load kg" as I go down the list, 0.5 kg to 8 kg, can't see the point, it has same as went in the washing machine. The 0.5 kg options is for a quick ½ hour dry, so really 2 to 8 kg, but to wash enough clothes to sort into Synthetics or Wool etc, it's simply not going to happen, we have 5 boxes, white, red, black, etc. so same colour washed together, it really has to be that way, OK only dryer got very hot so would not dry wool in it, but 60-65°C or 50-55°C neither really too hot for wool.

So we transfer washer to drier, turn dryer to off then back to Mix

and all the other settings ignored. Except

the delay, if sun has gone in, will set so used off-peak. Well in winter, in summer normally enough battery left anyway.

Running cost, hardly changed, 1 kW for 100 minutes or 650 kW for 150 minutes is about the same. So it means window closed, so less heat lost outside, and stopped mould forming on the walls, and better security, larger drum so never need to split the load, and a delay start timer.

Air cooled condenser drier was out, as room too small and so would get too hot, and water cooled condenser driers only seen as part of a washer dryer, not seen with stand-alone types.

At 60-65°C or 50-55°C never seems to crease the clothes, but 2.5 hours is far longer than the washing machine takes, so end up having to wait for dryer.

But the washer/dryer we have down steps in the flat under the main house, gets very hot so can damage some clothes, it uses water cooling so costs in water use as well, and the total cycle time is over 2.5 hours so it takes longer, and the heat used can't be selected, and the drum is smaller, it is used for my overalls, and nothing else. It was my mothers, she only had a 3-bedroom house, so not the room for washing machine and a dryer.

But having to remove woollen clothes and dry on a line outside was a pain, but as to

and

what is the point, use the delay start and Mix, rest are a waste of space.