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Frustrated with instructions and too many options on new Beko washing machine - also dishwasher

Marianne72

After over 10 years of service on the above, I splashed out and bought new machines. My big issues are 1. there are far too many programmes and sub options 2. the instruction manuals as clear as if written in Chinese then translated into medieval English. The washing machine has many pages of detail, but no simple chart. It turns out 'timer delay' is not a simple delay of hours before the machine starts, but the time the programme finishes! So, you have to discover how long the programme takes [not listed in the manual -only on the digital readout on the face of the machine, as there are many sub options]; factor in your low electricity rate times [mine is 2am to 5am] then make a calculation. Maths was my nightmare subject at school, to boot. There are so many sub programmes my brain can't take them in - each programme therefore has a multitude of washing times. The dishwasher has a simple timer delay but appears to start erratically when it feels like it. It was supposed to start just after 3am today but I got up at 4:45 and it hadn't started so I set it off manually - albeit it will finish after the low, low rate [yes, that's what Eon call this early am rate!]. All I wanted was a couple of programme options, a simple delay timer - not umpteen options I'll never use, let alone understand. 

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  • Our dryer does one thing, it blows hot air into a moving drum and thus dries any clothes put inside it. It has about a dozen programmes. I use two, 10 minutes and 'daily mix'. It is ridiculous.

    I worked in a laboratory where we used bench top microfuges (small centrifuges) a lot. When I started in the late 1980s you turned a dial to select the time of the centrifuge run and turned another dial to set the speed, then pressed a button to start it. It took about 5 seconds to set up. Then the manufacturers (Eppendorf etc.) started making them with touch-sensitive digital control panels. Pressing a flat, hidden button made the digits move up one, or down one, press and hold and it moved the digits up or down at a fast rate, overshoots were almost impossible to avoid. What had taken 5 seconds now took more like a minute, with lots of swearing. Useful innovation? I think not!

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  • Our dryer does one thing, it blows hot air into a moving drum and thus dries any clothes put inside it. It has about a dozen programmes. I use two, 10 minutes and 'daily mix'. It is ridiculous.

    I worked in a laboratory where we used bench top microfuges (small centrifuges) a lot. When I started in the late 1980s you turned a dial to select the time of the centrifuge run and turned another dial to set the speed, then pressed a button to start it. It took about 5 seconds to set up. Then the manufacturers (Eppendorf etc.) started making them with touch-sensitive digital control panels. Pressing a flat, hidden button made the digits move up one, or down one, press and hold and it moved the digits up or down at a fast rate, overshoots were almost impossible to avoid. What had taken 5 seconds now took more like a minute, with lots of swearing. Useful innovation? I think not!

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