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http://www.crosslee.co.uk/cl847.html
It’s vented! It’s ‘A’ rated!
Crosslee wrote:By selecting the ‘Low Energy’ button, users are able to make use of the A Class programme. This runs for approximately 8 hours and can be used any time of the day or night – what ever suits the user.
Energy efficiency recommendedBy de-selecting the ‘Low Energy’ button, users are able to make use of the faster programme, which is C Energy Efficiency Rated. This runs for approximately 120 minutes and can be used when time is of the essence.
It takes 8 hours!
Re: ‘A’ rated T/D?
Crosslee wrote:By selecting the ‘Low Energy’ button, users are able to make use of the A Class programme. This runs for approximately 8 hours and can be used any time of the day or night – what ever suits the user.
And there’s the catch.
Go back to normal and it becomes a C class dryer. In other words you’d get clothes dry faster hanging them out or over a radiator in the house. All in all a pretty pointless device IMO.
K.
Re: ‘A’ rated T/D?
Hold on a minute, let’s just ask Crosslee how it works 💡
Clearly they have gone to some effort to come up with this energy saving idea in order to quilify the ‘A’ rating. Best not judge lest we get find out I reckon 😉
It may be that it will suit those that take advantage of ‘off peak’ electricity, who can set the machine, walk away and come back 8 hours later and its all done on the cheap. Can’t be bad 🙂
Who knows, by this time next year every manufacturer may follow suit with their new machines?
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Martin wrote:Who knows, by this time next year every manufacturer may follow suit with their new machines?
Only because they all brand up Crosslee ones. 😉
TBH honest Martin, if I hang clothes on a clothes horse they’re dry in the morning too and I don’t even have to use any electricity at all to do (gas central heating before you start ;)) so IMO this is a total waste of time. Use it normally and it’s a normal dryer pretty much, use the A class setting and you’d have been better off using a foldaway clothes horse and that’s even less pollution/energy use.
So I challenge you, show me the advantage if it takes 8 hours to dry to “save” energy which you don’t have to use using my method.
The point is that most people use a dryer when they want stuff dried quickly or when the weather is sour and there’s no alternative. Whilst I’ve no doubt some people would use it thinking that they’re being green I just can’t see the point.
Crosslee will have to do better than that I’m afraid.
K.
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But, the gimmick works!
I only found out about this dryer, because a customer phoned me and ask if I had one of those ‘A’ rated White Knights in stock :lesson:
She had no idea about the 8 hours.
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For a site that purports to be the voice of the whitegoods trade in the UK the replies on the subject may not be too surprising perhaps? 😕
Sorry Martin, not with you there at all. 😕
I’m all for good things and advancement in the industry but I just don’t think that this is one or offers any real benefit to the consumer. Thus far I’ve yet to see any advantage other than to the retailer who can sell what is, in effect, a gimmick feature that I would doubt many people would ever use.
Sell it without telling the customer about the cycle time and they wouldn’t be best pleased. Tell them about it and I suspect many will then switch off.
K.
kwatt wrote:Sell it without telling the customer about the cycle time and they wouldn’t be best pleased. Tell them about it and I suspect many will then switch off.
K.
I can imagine more than a few outraged customers demanding their money back with the words, “You’re ‘avin’ a laff intcha?”.
I have to agree that, if true, an 8 hour cycle does seem like a bit of a joke. As Martin says though, we have to be careful about jumping to conclusions, though I wouldn’t be surprised if just turning the heaters off, and leaving most dryers running for most of 8 hours, wouldn’t produce similar results 🙂
If someone wanted to avoid the damp and potential condensation associated with hanging them on a clothes horse, or if they just had no where to hang them then maybe they could find it useful but selling one to ordinary users as an A rated appliance without the 8 hour caveat is asking for trouble.
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Using that 8 hour cycle regularly will undoubtedly mean a very short lifespan for belt, motor and bearings that don’t fare all that well when used for 80 mins 5 times a week ie. normal usage. What the customer saves on electric they will end up spending 10 times as much to replace it. 🙄
Pardon the pun, but what a load of hot air!!! 😆Re: ‘A’ rated T/D?
8 hours of operation 😯 just think of the wear and tear on the components thus shortening the lifespan of the appliance and making more environmental waste in a shorter time.
Its all gimmick as GB said. Tell the public what they want to hear (except the 8 hour bit 😆 ) and they will follow like sheep.
Whatever next?Greg
kwatt wrote:Sorry Martin, not with you there at all.
Please don’t apologise as it seems many postees on the subject are pre-empting that Crosslee have simply produced yet another “gimmick”.
Let me assure them that Crosslee are a very well respected UK manufacturer ( a very rare thing these days 😉 ) Many other whitegoods manufacturers look to them to bolster their own range of appliances, The siemens group being their biggest customer. Their track record is outstanding and applaudable in such a fiercely competitive marketplace.
They are now the first to qualify an “A” rated dryer and surprise surprise, as GB will testify, the public are the first to enquire as to its availability. The demand will be overwhelming in the coming months I am sure!
Sadly the reaction to the news on UKW however is more predictable, “gimmick”, “pointless”, “will have to do better”….? 🙄
It would possibly be a good opportunity to contact Crosslee and ask them for more details? Perhaps they may like to right an article to be published on UKW to promote their latest ‘innovation’?
Historically the comments made on this site have done little to secure cooperation between manufacturer, wholesaler and repairer. Always critical, never constructive 🙁
Here we go again………. 😥
Martin wrote:Let me assure them that Crosslee are a very well respected UK manufacturer
Indeed they are and better than most, I for one have had one of their dryers for 11years never moaned once.
Its just I can’t see the point of this particular tumble dryer. Granted its saves energy which can only be good, but already stated the wear of the appliance must be accelerated surely?Greg
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If the dryer is really on for 8 hours, and is tumbling for most of that time, I wouldn’t call it a gimmick, I’d call it crazy Martin. Respected or not, many companies have to struggle to keep afloat in these highly competative times and have to come out with “innovotive”? ideas to survive.
The “A” ratings have become partially discredited in my eyes because (correct me if I’m wrong please) it appears that a company can sell a washing machine with an “A” washing efficiency rating – even though only one, extremely long program achieves the status and most people wouldn’t use that programme because it takes too long. Aren’t the public are being conned a little? To me, an “A” rated tumble dryer that only achieves the rating if left on for 8 hours is taking this deception several steps further and as people have pointed out, what’s the point of a dryer being economical to run if it wears out and needs replacing or fixing much quicker?
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