Ease Front Load Washing Machine, Fully Automatic

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A front load machine with a direct drive motor and a split outer tub, and a page that prints the two figures the category hides behind a kilogram. The first is drum volume. Dry cotton needs 8 to 10 litres of drum for every kilogram, so a machine sold as 8 kg with a 55 litre drum is claiming 6.9 litres a kilogram and cannot actually take the load. Ours are 53 litres for the 6 kg, 62 for the 7 kg and 70 for the 8 kg, which is 8.8 litres a kilogram, and the kilogram is the IEC 60456 loading of dry cotton to the marked line rather than a number chosen by marketing. The second is the drum bearing, which is what ends most front loaders somewhere between year six and year nine. On almost every machine sold the bearing is pressed into a sealed plastic outer tub, so a Rs 900 bearing becomes a Rs 9,000 tub assembly and the machine is written off instead. Ours has a split outer tub on bolts. The bearing is a bearing. That single decision rules out most existing tooling in this category, which is exactly why it is worth making.

• Drum volume 53 L (6 kg), 62 L (7 kg), 70 L (8 kg), printed beside the rated kilograms, which are the IEC 60456 dry cotton loading
• 46, 52 and 58 litres of water for a full cotton cycle at 40 C, against 118 litres for the 6.5 kg top loader on the next page. At four loads a week that is about 13,700 litres a year of difference, and it is the strongest argument for a front loader that exists
• 5 star on the BEE washing machine label, resting on 0.097 kWh per kilogram per standard cotton cycle at 40 C, which multiplies out to 0.58 units on the 6 kg, 0.68 on the 7 kg and 0.78 on the 8 kg, close to Rs 5.50 a wash at Rs 8 a unit. Most of that figure is heating the water, not turning the drum: the same load on the cold cycle draws about 0.19 units
• Split outer tub on bolts, so the drum bearing and the shaft seal are replaceable parts and not a reason to replace the machine. No welded tub seam and no bonded front panel
• Direct drive BLDC motor with copper windings, 500 W rated, bolted straight to the drum. No belt and no pulley
• Stainless sheathed heating element, 1,800 W, reachable behind the front panel on four T20 screws. Above 300 ppm inlet hardness the element scales, and a scaled element is the commonest front loader failure in India, so the element is a stocked spare at a published price and the descale programme is on the dial rather than buried in a submenu
• Drum in SS 304, 0.6 mm. A grade is a claim; the words stainless steel are not
• Door bellows stocked as a spare, because the bellows is the part that goes sour in humid weather and the part nobody can buy. The drain pump filter opens from the front without moving the machine
• 1400 rpm maximum spin, leaving about 50 percent residual moisture, against about 72 percent from a top loader at 780 rpm. That figure decides how long your clothes take to dry and it is almost never printed
• 48 dB(A) washing and 72 dB(A) at 1400 rpm spin, both at one metre to IEC 60704-2-4
• 2 years comprehensive on the whole appliance and 10 years on the direct drive motor, part only. Two promises, so they are written as two
• No Shuunnya service network exists. Spares are held 10 years against a bank bought with the first production run and tooling held in our name, and until a service route reaches your district a comprehensive claim is settled by replacement or refund rather than an engineer. We will not print a number of cities we do not serve
• Installation is not included and is arranged locally at your cost. It needs a tap, a drain and a level floor, and the four transit bolts must come out of the back before it is switched on. A front loader run with its transit bolts in destroys its own suspension in one cycle, and it is the commonest installation mistake there is. The spanner is in the box and the bolts go back in if you ever move house