Having bought a washing machine lately I realized again how incredibly unhelpful the EU energy labels have become.
Is energy use really a consideration for washing machines? Assuming you're also drying your laundry, >95% of the energy spent is going to be on drying anyway, no?
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I did a quick check, this doesn't seem to be close to true, it's more like 2:1. But it doesn't really matter for the point I'm trying to make: The labels for dryers are just as outdated. (Also I dry my laundry on the balcony.)
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Seems unlikely. In US dryer requires a 240V, 30A circuit at least. Washer is happy plugged in a normal outlet on a shared 120V 15A or 20A circuit. Also dryer runs much longer for same load. So I would expect something like 5:1 at best, more like 10:1 to 20:1.
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30A? What kind of dryers do you have? That sounds close to loading infrastructure for EVs.
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I think it might be non-condensing dryer? Our condenser is fine with the standard 16A 240V, I assume it uses even less...
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Your dryers have heat pump/dehumidifier in them?! Wow. Ours are literally big electric heaters.
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Yep they have, except maybe cheapest ones.
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Wow, nice. The idea of "energy efficient" dryer here is tuning the sensing-dry mode to shut off while the clothes are still wet so you have to keep restarting it, and only measuring energy used til the first time it cuts off for the advertised "efficiency".
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So from what I've quickly browsed, everything sold here is condensing (no ventilation of wet air to outside), and most indeed have heat pump (A++ and better). Back to the original topic, maybe the EU energy labels did help here?
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