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Thanks tubafan… what happens with the Sylvania bulbs if you try to set them low? e.g. do they just stay turned off? What happens with the Philips bulbs is that I can set them to whatever level I like but they’ll only maintain their level if it’s pretty bright to begin with. At lower levels they just wander about, getting brighter, then dimmer, then brighter, then dimmer all the time – hugely annoying 🙁
Thanks Dave. I’ve changed to the correct type for LED bulbs and there are enough bulbs to satisfy the minimum load requirement (so there’s no flickering).
LED dimmer units come in 2 x types called ‘leading edge’ and trailing edge’. Up to now I’ve only used Philips bulbs which Philips confirmed as being leading-edge but I’ve tried both dimmer types here (just in case Philips were mistaken). Unfortunately, neither dimmer provides satisfactory dimming 🙁
One more thing that’s puzzling me… most previous dryers I’ve owned have been bi-directional – i.e. the drum rotates clockwise for 5 or 6 minutes, then goes anticlockwise for 5 or 6 minutes, then keeps reverting between them but this Beko is different. It goes clockwise for maybe 10 minutes, then anticlockwise for about 5 seconds, then back to clockwise for 10 minutes and so on. It never spends more than a few seconds in the anticlockwise direction.
Does that seem normal..?
Yeah, I guess that might explain it. It was a small load but I’d a mixture of slow drying and quick drying things – shirts / socks / underwear etc. Maybe I should experiment and try separating things into different loads?
The new Beko DTIKP71131w arrived yesterday and I used it for the first time this morning. The old Candy/Iberna dryer used to take 4 hours or more to dry anything – and even then the clothes still came out damp. The Beko took around 50 mins this morning. And whilst the clothes were still slightly damp-ish, they were nowhere near as bad as with the older dryer. I’ll probably end up with a few questions about the Beko but if so, I’ll start another thread.
Thanks again iadom. I just visited my local white goods retailer and he agreed with you that Hoover/Candy dryers are probably the worst. In fact he stopped selling integrated dryers about 18 months ago because there were just too many complaints. However, at that time, he reckoned the Beko DTIKP71131w was one of the best ones:-
https://ao.com/p/reviews/dtikp71131w…659-126?page=2
Product Specification->Installation mentions somehting about a draining kit being required – so presumably it’s not a condensing model??
Yes, it’s all hugely confusing. The manual contains a table of the dryer’s (A+) drying times and the shortest time is 100 minutes. But it also has a “Rapid dry” mode which claims to dry things in as little as 30 minutes (though that’s never worked for me…)
I wonder if the Rapid mode only works with just one item in the dryer??
Thanks iadom – your attachment was too small to be readable here but interestingly, the Hoover model mentions that it offers a quick drying mode (which implies that maybe it does offer the dual technology?)
The brand name is Iberna and the model no. is ECHCTD:-
At first I thought it was a re-brand of a Hotpoint dryer but we worked out here that it’s in fact made by Candy/Hoover. But unfortunately I don’t know which Candy/Hoover model it corresponds to 🙁
Candy’s engineer called last week and was quite disparaging about heat-pump dryers (apparently they’re easily the most complained about!) So I asked my installer to start looking for a replacement. Apparently, conventional condenser dryers are still available – even for integrated models.
My installer contacted their supplier who apparently said that this particular machine is “a conventional condenser dryer but with a heat pump option”. In other words, some programs use the heat pump and others don’t (they’ll behave just like a conventional dryer…)
Does that sound likely..?
BTW Don – I took your advice and did some reading and it seems that the main benefit of a heat-pump dryer is that over its lifetime, it’ll use a lot less electricity.- but of course if it’s not getting the clothes dry it’s just wasted money however you look at it. All I’m doing is just spending a lot of money to hear a loud noise!
At the end of this week I’ve arranged for the manufacturer to send out an engineer so is there anything specific that I should ask him to look at? e.g. is there likely to be some internal thermostat control that he could maybe adjust?
