Miele Little Giants -- help!
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Comments (17)That McMaster Carr part number is correct, I can attest because it's sitting up in my attic right now. It works for either single phase or 3-phase. It comes with a detailed wiring diagram that your electrician needs to follow. I consistently have 250V coming into the house, so I followed the chart and got it stepped down to 224V, which is just within the +10% voltage tolerance allowed by Miele. My Little Giant pair have been in service for 3 days now without any problems of their own (I got the dryer stuck in "Laundromat" mode, so be super careful in Supervisor Mode to avoid a $275 tech visit to reset!) BTW, if you call Miele technical service and follow the voice prompts for "Professional Equipment" and then "Professional Laundry for the Home" it will route you to people who can send you some documents about the electrical requirements that will make life easy for your electrician regarding the dryer's electrical requirements....See MoreMiele Little Giant questions
Comments (14)I got extremely lucky and picked up this pair from a dealer that was closing a location and got the floor models for roughly half off and will be having them installed over the weekend. I was surprised by the earlier poster that called Miele and didn't get help. You have to be sure to navigate through the phone options and select "Commercial/Professional Equipment" to get to the right folks. The rep sent me two documents that are incredibly helpful. One of them is a Technical Service Bulletin that gives explicit information on two transformers that should work: 1. McMaster Carr P/N 70525K76 2. Grainger P/N 2CM61 (Square D #1S46F) I ordered the model from McMaster because their private label transformer was $172 vs $426 for Square D. The wiring diagram for the transformer is available on McMaster's website, so your electrician can look at it and see what he needs to do ahead of time. My electrician is coming in the morning to wire this up and (fingers crossed) I should be good to go. The two documents Miele sent me were WAY more informative than what's available publicly from their website in the Operation Guide / Installation Instructions and are exactly what an electrician would need to properly prepare the electrical for the dryer. I gave them feedback that this information should be incorporated in the installation instructions to prevent a lot of headaches....See MoreMiele Little Giant leveling
Comments (15)Hard to say yet whether it's moving less, will have to get an impression over time. Why scary, though? It was well under control, and not about to topple over. Some spins start out shaking, and smooth out as RPM's increase. Others never get to higher RPM, and shake all the way through. You can't necessarily tell the difference by eyeballing the load, but the washer can tell by measuring drum speed variation. I thought this was always done with rotational position sensor, but the technical doc says it uses a tachogenerator instead. This adds an extra analog-to-digital step, but maybe Miele finds them to be more reliable? Speaking of spin balancing, I find myself doing a lot of very full loads, because I'm still using the same laundry baskets. Full loads are supposed to be better for balancing, but at some point it can be so full that the load can't redistribute enough. Then it ends up being a load that never gets to high RPM. The Little Giant doesn't spend too much time deciding this, so the cycle time doesn't stretch out much. It would be nice if the machine would indicate on the display that full spin speed wasn't reached, so I wouldn't have to get to the machine while it's spinning, or judge by feel. Have you seen any washer with such an indicator?...See MoreMiele Little Giant information needed
Comments (10)I'd make the room to accommodate the deeper dimension of the Little Giant set. I think most regular sized sets would need 36" depth or deeper to accommodate the dryer venting. You could locate your set in an area that if ever the really deep sets are needed, it wouldn't be too big of a deal, maybe just moving a few cabinets. Beats having to relocate doors and traffic patterns. In my room, I had no choice and went with the regular sized Miele. A Little Giant won't ever fit :(...See Morecadetfencer
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