Are you using a Residential-rated receptacle Then an EV Industrial Rated receptacle to charge?

[SwampNut]

It was probably a $300 model sold for $20 with a missing cord.

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[CyberGus]

We’re going on 15 years on a used drier that I bought for $20. I can’t make an $800 purchase make sense. Also, working from home reduces laundry a lot.

work at home = no clothes??

do not call me on Zoom

 

[SwampNut]

LOL, I said "reduces." What's your Zoom ID?

 

[JBee]

I use a peice of string and a fusion reactor to dry my clothes in my backyard. Sorry guys for the global warming.

 

[Ogre]

That only works if you can find someone selling an $800 drier for $20.

Not saying it doesn't happen; our second machine we bought for $50 plus $50 parts I installed. A replacement is $800 new.

-Crissa

Not too hard to find bargains on used appliances.

 

[Bill906]

It's not, as far as I know, actually cheaper to run, tho. I have two. (And hate that the new one does not run in low-heat mode like the old ones. It's like the made it stupider when they made it 'smart').

-Crissa

I also love my LG but hate the user interface and options. Washer has all these cycles but they don’t tell you want they do. Bedding, Whites, sanitize. What if I want to sanitize my white bedding?

I was also annoyed there wasn’t a good low heat option on my dryer. The washer does a super high speed spin that takes a lot of water out of the clothes. So the dryer doesn’t have to do much. Both my washer and dryer have the ability to download cycles that aren’t native. I found one called “Ultra Delicate” that runs low temp but doesn’t run on a timer but turns off based on the dryness sensor. Full load is usually done in under 30 minutes of low heat.

 

[Crissa]

Not too hard to find bargains on used appliances.

Yeah, but sometimes that means getting one with a burned out controller that can't be replaced. Or black mold somewhere it can't be extracted from.

Good money after bad, and assuming that you can always find a deal is a fool's game.

Not only that, it expends hours of capital in finding, retrieving, fixing... Not to mention the skill, tools, and space needed to do all of that.

Yeah, mine's missing that one. It's not in the list O can download. It's like the marketing got to choose what was programmed, and they made all these box-checking features, without making them at all useful.

They only just added iPad supporrt this summer, apparently. How dumb is that?

My fifteen year old LG could do more possible combinations of loads and save a custom job and do everything this new one can... it just didn't need wifi. It's amazing that the new one is measurably worse.

-Crissa

PS, and I can't double check because those features don't work for eight hours today.

 

[HaulingAss]

Bringing this 10% of the way back to the original thread topic of electrical outlets:

Some condensing dryers can plug into a regular 120V outlet! This is a potential solution for someone wanting to repurpose a 30A 240V dryer circuit to use on a EV charging circuit. This could be useful for a house with only 100A service that was already near the upper end of the calculated capacity for all circuits.

 

[SwampNut]

Bringing this 10% of the way back to the original thread topic of electrical outlets:

Some condensing dryers can plug into a regular 120V outlet! This is a potential solution for someone wanting to repurpose a 30A 240V dryer circuit to use on a EV charging circuit. This could be useful for a house with only 100A service that was already near the upper end of the calculated capacity for all circuits.

That is a great advantage if someone really needs to do it. But if you CAN use 240v, it will be more efficient. High motor usage at 120v wastes a bit of power. Not enough to matter if you are limited in outlets and would have to install one.

However you're possibly mistaken on thinking that the 100A limit changes based on voltage. It does not. It all comes down to how many watts does it take to do the job; you halve the voltage, you double the current.

 

[Crissa]

Bringing this 10% of the way back to the original thread topic of electrical outlets:

Some condensing dryers can plug into a regular 120V outlet! This is a potential solution for someone wanting to repurpose a 30A 240V dryer circuit to use on a EV charging circuit. This could be useful for a house with only 100A service that was already near the upper end of the calculated capacity for all circuits.

Yep, exactly!

I have my stack plugged into a standard outlet while I use the old dryer outlet for my charger.

-Crissa

 

[HaulingAss]

That is a great advantage if someone really needs to do it. But if you CAN use 240v, it will be more efficient. High motor usage at 120v wastes a bit of power. Not enough to matter if you are limited in outlets and would have to install one.

However you're possibly mistaken on thinking that the 100A limit changes based on voltage. It does not. It all comes down to how many watts does it take to do the job; you halve the voltage, you double the current.

A condensing dryer that runs off a 15A or 20A 120 volt circuit will almost certainly draw less current than a condensing dryer that requires a 20 or 30 amp 240V circuit. The advantage is not that it runs on 120 volts, it's that it has been designed to not need as much power

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