Laundry Detergent Dispenser Calibration

[The Critic]

How do we ever get here? Calibration of laundry detergent, my wife would have no part in it. Me neither.

Sophistication is a beautiful thing.

 

[4WD]

Wife just started that too. She showed me that it was this much for a small load, and this much for large. Why I’m not sure, as I’ve been expressly forbidden from using the thing, years before we were dating, she started doing my laundry and I haven’t since—apparently I’m just that bad at it.

Just ordered Arm & Hammer sheets - city quit taking plastic …

 

[4WD]

I'm still trying to figure this one out:
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Recommended by diesel mechanics with two W&D’s …

 

[TimeFlies]

I toss a tide pod into my basic washer, and done.

 

[supton]

Just ordered Arm & Hammer sheets - city quit taking plastic …

Stopped taking plastic in the trash, or in the recycling?

Wife hasn't disliked the sheets yet, I think she bought a box, then stocked up for a year. She was rather happy with greatly reduced amount of shelf space it took up. We don't have very grimy clothing so I'm not sure how good they are, but, happy wife, happy life. See if this keeps on.

 

[4WD]

Stopped taking plastic in the trash, or in the recycling?

Recycling

 

[supton]

Recycling

Ah. Not surprised. We're down to 1&2 here, and lately I've been tossing more if I don't feel like cleaning it out, as I suspect it's not going anywhere anyhow.

 

[Donald]

Doesn’t mean it couldn’t be better. Chances are, you could be saving money.

Too much detergent is not good. I would guess unless you strictly measure using the directions on the detergent container you are adding too much. And if you add too much it often does not get totally rinsed out of your clothes.

Many washers add more or less water depending upon the size and type of wash load. And you should vary the amount of detergent mainly by how much water the machine will use to wash the clothes. The automatic detergent dispenser will compensate for all of this.

 

[Rmay635703]

Most all plastic returned to recycle, isn’t.

It has been known forever that #2,4,5,6 plastics can be heated to about 400+ to make a diesel fuel like substance that has been used in Japan and by overseas individuals as fuel.

Finally decades later a startup has taken a very simple process and improved it to maximize profits



Hopefully somebody starts using this very simple tech to make fuels and plastic base ingredients, contamination and aged plastics all work great in pyrolysis and sills.

 

[oil pan 4]

Wouldnt the amount of soap used ......be determined by the amount of water used . Say Large vs Small load size .

That how my front loader is. Small loads get a small amount of soap. A week's worth of my clothes gets a big squeeze of soap.

 

[Rmay635703]

delete found my original thread

 

[Hermann]

Fancy lol. Didn’t know the level varied by brand I just always put the same amount in as what mom originally showed me when I learned no matter the brand and I go from there or just throw in a pod. Our 2007 GE washing machine doesn’t have no fancy dispenser lol.

Nor does my 1996 from White Consolidated Industries from Best Buy. But I'm a 2 pod guy.

 

[Owen Lucas]

Plastic recycling is a scam and a psyop to make people worried about the environment feel better. Even Greenpeace, the extremists of environmentalism, think it is a bad idea. Their solution is still to get rid of it though, good luck.

I think removing it from food packaging is a good idea because of all the micro plastics etc. But switching would be difficult and not very cost effective.

https://www.greenpeace.org/internat...ry-exposes-grim-reality-of-plastic-recycling/

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/the-myth-of-single-use-plastic-and-recycling/





TLDR: Using fossil fuels to heat water to clean plastic so a small fraction of it can be recycled to a facility where it was transported to by diesel trucks defeats the purpose for a barely reusable product.

 

[Dave Hess]

You're fancy . I have a cheap GE top loader I toss a pod in.

I got the same washer and simply pour in the detergent.

 

[Donald]

My new LG washer has an automatic laundry detergent dispenser.

It works great….except folks forget that every brand of detergent specifies a slightly different quantity of detergent for the same size load.

Moral of the story: fill to the appropriate line on the detergent’s included dispensing cup and verify the quantity with a measuring cup.

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…because you might be surprised:

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And then you should adjust your dispenser accordingly:

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Otherwise, wash performance may not be optimal.

The GE front loader we have has the detergent dispenser but we can specify the exact type of laundry detergent we use and the machine knows how much to add.. it has a list of a hundred or so laundry detergents we can select from the list.

 

[ripcord]

My laundry detergent dispenser is self calibrating and you leave her alone if you know what's good for you, LOL.

 

[dubber09]

Which one of those white jugs works better? We use Tide but I'm willing to try another cheaper brand if it works equally well.

 

[The Critic]

Which one of those white jugs works better? We use Tide but I'm willing to try another cheaper brand if it works equally well.

No issues with Kirkland Free and Clear.

 

[I<3oil]

Which one of those white jugs works better? We use Tide but I'm willing to try another cheaper brand if it works equally well.

Tide > * except maybe Persil

 

[Elkins45]

This is only marginally on topic, but if you have one of these fancy washing machines with a circuit board it's well worth the few dollars to put a surge arrestor between it and the line current. It doesn't take much of a surge to zap one.

You should do the same with newer refrigerators and your programmable garage door opener. I had to replace the board in our opener after a near miss lightning strike sent a surge down our line.