Thanks. I knew the article was crap! LOL Super stressful when moving to a new machine when you don't actually need one and you researched your previous one for 8 months prior...;)

I read through a couple of postings there. The one you linked directly doesn't say anything about reusing water for rinses so that's apparently in some other post. Anyway, that fellow is on-target with some points and off-target on others.

@dadoes, the main article says, "Normal Reused Water Rinse" for the LG and then says later, "and some innovative features like their Fresh Water Rinse. This us more hygienic wash and better for your clothes." about the Lux. So this to me says that they think the Lux fresh water rinse is clean water as opposed to re-used water, which they say is better for your clothing and more hygienic.

I would call LG. I had understood that none of the HE machines reused the rinse water...mainly because there wasn't enough of it.

Ah, I see it now, a bullet-point under the LG's feature listing ... "Normal Reused Water Rinse" ... WTH does that even mean?? Is it just bad grammar or is the statement completely off-target? I'd bet it's wrong, maybe inferred by the reviewer as a counterpoint to Electrolux's explicit Fresh Water Rinse ... the LG doesn't have a "Fresh Water Rinse" feature so it must reuse the water.

I read a review some years ago on the now-defunct Epinions site from someone insisting that her Calypso reused the wash water for rinsing, a service tech told her so ... which is completely bullspit. Anyone who has a Calypso and pays attention to what it does can clearly hear the wash water draining out before the first rinse sequence begins ... and there are drains *between* the several rinses.

That is an obvious error with the author of that article. There is no such option on that Model or any other LG Model.

You mean they don't have a "normal reused water rinse" like the article states? LOL I thought it was a bunch of hooey, but figured I'd make sure. Seems crazy to write an article about machines you know nothing about and extrapolate features on one based on the names of features on another.

Ahhhh, welcome to the Internet, where many reviews are just fantasy. Doing what you're doing now, trying to really figure out what is on offer and what you want, is the most important thing to do when buying new machines.

As far as fresh water rinse, the spray rinse nozzle in the LG on certain cycles sprays fresh water (water not entering through detergent tray) onto the clothes while doing an interim spin between wash, rinse, and extra rinses. You will find many of these options are similar among vendors although named differently. On the Lux, rinse water enters strictly bypassing the detergent trays. As for being a real benefit, that's quite subjective. Samsungs Power Foam, LG Turbo Wash, and Kenmores Acela Wash are all basically the same thing.

The benefit of manufacturing a machine that reuses rinse water is impractical and would add cost. You basically would need a holding reservoir for the final rinse water (no softener of course), then it could be reused for maybe a pre-wash in the next cycle. Seriously not a big energy savings and quite impractical.

Samsung calls it Speed Spray.

There were machines by Fagor and Electrolux that would store the water from the second rinse (before softener is released) and use it for the next main wash. The Lux was a 24" model and the Fagor a Euro-style top loader.

Perhaps FRESH-WATER is a term used to mean the rinse water does not flow through any dispenser tray for the rinse, but rather bypasses the tray to not pick up left behind detergent???

MRB

That's right.