Indeed. Friends of ours had their home entirely gutted, all their photos and other irreplaceable possessions destroyed and their dog killed a few weeks ago by a fire started by a fridge/freezer. It was a Beko and I don't know what model it was, but do know that a year or more ago, hundreds of thousands of Bekos were found to be likely to cause a fire.
I don't personally know anyone else it has happened to.
SteveW
small fraction the energy and don't damage clothes.
The point of them is that when you are two adults with three young children and it's been raining all summer, but is too warm to put the radiators and gas fire on, you can still get clothes and uniforms washed and dried in time for when they are needed!
SteveW
one of my music class mates had her dishwasher catch fire overnight. Luckily, there was a smoke alarm in the kitchen and they managed to put out the fire before it did too much damage.
On my _washing_ machine, which now has the compulsory switch off if not in use, it's one push of a button to turn on the power, a press of another button to start the cycle. After applying power it may be a sequence of events that is required.
I have a battery charger (for a drill) that's even worse. It only activates when inserting the battery. Once charged it stop charging forever, but still runs hot. The battery will start self discharging. Turning the mains off/on doesn't start a charge cycle so an external timer cannot be used to force a periodic top-up.
small fraction the energy and don't damage clothes.
Since one can do that trivially with no tumble dryer, it does seem to leave them pointless.
NT
use a small fraction the energy and don't damage clothes.
ve them pointless.
And how would you do that when it is raining outdoors and you have very little space indoors and do so without causing damp?
replying to Toby, Big Ginger wrote: I thought of wedging the on switch as well, and setting the timer to switch off after say 1 hour or 1/2 hour. but is it dangerous to wedge the switch on?
We have the same problem with our white knight drier. We wedge it with a matchstick and have it on a timer. It works perfectly. We do have a mains smoke alarm in the room where the drier is and don't leave the house if it is on. White Knight has no reported incidents of driers catching fire, which is why we bought this particular model.
P.S. Why, oh why can't people stick to the point.
This issue was raised 10 years ago. Nowadays, there are smart dryers that don't need matchsticks wedged into the switch.
You don't need a smart dryer. Many much more basic dryers now feature a delayed start option - take take advantage of off-peak electricity rates.
Ah 2016. Maybe his house has burned down by now.
I know many washing machines have timer starts on them. Mine is not accessible to me though as its on an lcd screen. I'd have thought that you might be best getting a new model containing this feature.
Brian
Yes if you try this on many of the lcd devices, the minute you turn off the mains switch, you lose any programming and the start button remains off. Only the older or very chap mechanical ones respond to the external timer trick, and as has been said a more modern device has it built in, though I do wish makers of domestic gear could make a simple fis so blind people could use their devices. Just a different number of bleeps as you select things is enough. Brian
Nowadays you should be able to control any domestic appliance with a voice app on a phone, the technology is available so cheaply. All the necessary processing power and connectivity is in the phone, it just needs a ESP32 or similar in the appliance. We should have microwaves that set themselves by scanning the food packet, and washing machines that scan care labels, and fridges that manage recipes and shopping lists, not just for the Gadget Show but in all except the very cheapest appliances.
Add AI, then all these appliances can tell you how to live your life ...
They could do a better job than the people doing it at the moment.
I have a Beko Dryer. Very basic model with a time dial, start button and heat setting button. I have a timer plugged into the plug with the timer set to turn on the dryer when eco 7 cheap rate Starts. The timer I use has one of them switches which can either make the timer be on all the time, or set to turn on and off at the preset time.
Follow these steps and it might work for your dryer.
1) Flick the little switch on the timer to the always on position. 2) Load the dryer with your clothes and close the door. 3) Turn the timer dial to 0 mins (basically the off setting). 4) Press the start button for about 1 or 2 seconds, you will hear an electric buzzing sound, (this is the start capacitor charging up ready to start the motor). 5) Flick the little switch on the timer from always on to timer mode. 6) Now the dryer has no power because it’s not the right time for cheap electricity, turn the time knob to the amount of time you want to dry your clothes for. I normally just put it to 1 hour.Nothing will happen, but as soon as the cheap electric rate starts and your timer send power to the dryer, it will automatically turn the dryer on, it will just automatically start because the capacitor is charged up and ready to go.
Note, if you do all the above steps, and then open the door to maybe add more clothes, one you open the door, for some reason, the capacitor drains the power and if you close the door again, it won’t auto start, you’ll need to complete the above steps again.
Presumably people living in flats, terrace houses and semis will have the courtesy not to make this level of noise in the middle of the night.
I sleep above my dishwasher. It makes less nose than the central heating boiler. As do the washing machine and tumble drier.
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