Relocated my veteran lavamat to a place with cold supply only, and
rigged up both hoses from the machine to the outlet with plastic Y piece. Y
piece turned out to be a POS so have now connected up cold fill pipe only,
disconnected hot. Normally do 30C wash so guessing/hoping it won't notice
lack of water at hot inlet but wondering what setting it would actually
try to fill from hot on. Trial & error could be very time consuming so
wondering if anyone knows for sure. I've only got operating instructions
for this not installation/servicing.

I'm also wondering if I can wire the feeds to the H & C solenoids both to
the C solenoid (preferably without destroying anything :-))


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John Stumbles

Procrastinate now!

John Stumbles wrote:
Relocated my veteran lavamat to a place with cold supply only, and
rigged up both hoses from the machine to the outlet with plastic Y
piece. Y piece turned out to be a POS so have now connected up cold
fill pipe only, disconnected hot. Normally do 30C wash so
guessing/hoping it won't notice lack of water at hot inlet but
wondering what setting it would actually try to fill from hot on.
Trial & error could be very time consuming so wondering if anyone
knows for sure. I've only got operating instructions for this not
installation/servicing.

No reason why it should be time consuming. Try 40 & start machine. If it
sits there sulking then you know it's not a "cold feed only" machine.
(That's what my indesit does). Mine works fine on 30 *but*, if I don't
blank off the hot feed water dribbles out of the hot fill pipe (backflow
past the HW solenoid valve I guess). Consequently, I have to use the POS
Y-piece.


I'm also wondering if I can wire the feeds to the H & C solenoids
both to the C solenoid (preferably without destroying anything :-))

Hmm, can't think why not off the top of my head but then I'm no sparky. ;-)

Tim

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:05:36 +0100, me9 wrote:

Going from memory, if it was like mine, the thermostat knob has two
economy settings on it. below the lower one it is cold fill, between
them is mixed fill, and above the upper one is hot fill (main wash fill
only).

OK trial suggests 70C hot fill only, 70C hot + cold i.e. water dribbles
out of hot inlet with no hose attached. Presumably some lower temp cold
fill only. Blanked off hot inlet with 3/4" brass cap (with wash m/c hose
washer inside) and put m/c back into service.


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John Stumbles

My karma ran over my dogma