Heat Pump Dryers Operational Feature

MattMattMattUK

chrisrsmith said:

mmmmikey said:

Doesn't sound like an issue or fault to me, more like a deliberate design function. My last washing machine (Bosch) did exactly the same after finishing the wash and before taking the clothes out - designed to keep the clothes fresh and reduce creases. I think you'll find the amount of power it uses is minimal and may even save energy if turning the clothes occasionally allows more water to drain out before the drying starts.

Uhm, yes. The BEKO also has the anti creasing feature POST drying - if you want to select it.
15 x 10 seconds drum cycles per hour - a little excessive?

I imagine not, I suspect that they have researched the optimal interval and that is why it turns the drum every four minutes.

Astria

A 400W motor would use up about 13p/hour, and 15x10 second cycles would be 2.5 minutes, so actual cost should be about 0.5p/hour ? Even if it was a 800W motor, that's still only 1p/hour, worth it in my opinion.

They could have probably just done a full rotation every hour, but 10 seconds wouldn't use up much more energy.

chrisrsmith

MattMattMattUK said:

chrisrsmith said:

mmmmikey said:

Doesn't sound like an issue or fault to me, more like a deliberate design function. My last washing machine (Bosch) did exactly the same after finishing the wash and before taking the clothes out - designed to keep the clothes fresh and reduce creases. I think you'll find the amount of power it uses is minimal and may even save energy if turning the clothes occasionally allows more water to drain out before the drying starts.

Uhm, yes. The BEKO also has the anti creasing feature POST drying - if you want to select it.
15 x 10 seconds drum cycles per hour - a little excessive?

I imagine not, I suspect that they have researched the optimal interval and that is why it turns the drum every four minutes.

Yes, they now have and dropped this feature from their latest machines - apparently "not needed" - wow, what a statement.

wild666

chrisrsmith said:

I have a BEKO heat pump dryer (model B5T4923IW) that has a DELAY start feature. The delay can be unto 24 hours - I started to use this to make the most of a lower rate of electricity consumption (early hours).
However, I have discovered an operational issue that has taken ages for BEKO to confirm - not documented etc.
The issue is that once a DELAY start is selected, the dryer spins the drum EVERY 4 minutes for 10 seconds until the DELAY program starts. Therefore it spins 15 times every hour leading up to the delay start.
Now that BEKO had acknowledged this issue they have asked if I still want the machine - basically they have confirmed their 'co*k up'......

I am trying to understand whether other manufactrers' dryers have this same issue - I've spoken to Samsung and it's again like pulling teeth getting to speak to somebody that can confirm.

DOES anybody reading this have a heat pump dryer that actually uses the DELAY function and does 'your' machine exhibit this same issue?

The best thing I would suggest to do with the delay function is wash the clothing or whatever so that its finished about an hour before a cheap rate kicks in then put it into the dryer and set the delay for one hour so that the cheap rate electricity is in force when the washing is drying.