Sensor Drying

[tibsy]

Haynes manual describes 3 methods of sensor drying:

Traditional thermostats which at a certain fixed temp simply turn off current to timer/heaters

Thermostats on inlet/outlet giving comparitive temp diff readings to microprocessor which decides when to turn off heaters/drying programme

Drum mounted electrical contacts which measure dampness of clothes by the electrical resistance

What I want to know is how common are these methods? / are any obsolete/not used? as some things in Haynes are virtually never seen such as vented washer dryers.

What would be the method used on Hoover Nextra 6 washer dryers?

cheers

Tim

[Martin]

Re: Sensor Drying

tibsy wrote:What would be the method used on Hoover Nextra 6 washer dryers?

A negative temperature coefficient thermistor.

[tibsy]

Re: Sensor Drying

Martin wrote:

A negative temperature coefficient thermistor.

Hi I meant
‘which of the general methods (that I quoted from Haynes book) is it?’,
not ‘what was the actual sensor used?’
but I presume since you say its a thermistor that it will be the middle method “Thermostats on inlet/outlet giving comparitive temp diff readings to microprocessor which decides when to turn off heaters/drying programme “

cheers
Tim

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