It does not have reverse tumble..the 70 series has it.. My 617 does the job without it. However, on the 617 dryer there is an Allergen cycle. The 417 and 517 are Tier 2.....the 617 Tier 3. Detrick...I do not run my tap water as the hot water heater is less than 5 ft. away and in less than five seconds, it is hot to the washer!. Window on door fogs up... Just ran a load of whitest whites on hot, normal soil, extra rinse...cycle 70 min. The detergent entered the drum within 4 min. I am doing just as the manual says to do for now just so I can learn if and where tweaking may be needed.. So far, it is fine. georgect....tried the Purex Fabulously Fresh and it is just perfect.. Clean and fresh.. Thanks for the tip....Hope you own stock in the Henckel Co.. Sales are up on your suggestion! :) As my name implies, I gave up on Windows PCs and got all Apple products a few years ago...I cannot get into the iMac, iPad, or iPhone and tweak but no need to, It Just Works!!!. So far, that appears to be the same with the Elux 617..it just works!

I am a novice when it applies to front loaders, unlike so many of the astute members of this forum, but I have owned the 617 washer and dryer for 4 months now so I am responding. Cons?. Not really.. It is more a matter of getting accustomed to the way your machine works. Uses less water, but items are saturated and are really clean. No allergen cycle on washer( but on dryer) but I never had one so I do not miss it.. There is a degree of finding some cycles do not allow options to be chosen as you might try, but again, I have not found that to be an issue and items come out just fine.. Pros? My clothing and linens have never been this clean.. No pilling, no shrinkage.. One cycle that I never dreamed I would use is the Delay Start and I really like it!. You can set it up to 12 hours ahead.. I am sluggish most mornings so instead, I load up the evening before and the next morning, while I drink my coffee, the washer is doing its thing. I also like the mixing of detergent before releasing. It is an improvement over not mixing and possibly leaving undissolved detergent to hit your items. I use mostly powdered detergents, Cheer or Persil, never use cold to wash, but rather warm and when I want a true hot wash, I use the Whitest Whites cycle. And always, the extra rinse option. i probably could have done well with the smaller Elux compact as it is only me and my biggest problem is finding enough things to put in a load.. Even then, when I have taken a chance with smaller loads, all went great. No error codes :) It is difficult to address what your needs and likes might be so I hope this helps somewhat.. Am I happy with my Elux 617? You bet! Look at the reviews...very high ratings so I am not alone in my " happiness"..

First, unlearn fables that promote myths. Electronics are not delicate. 120 volt electronics even before PC existed met standards that require 600 volt transients without damage. Today's electronics are even more robust. Let's put numbers to it. A datasheet for the semiconductor interface chip is: http://datasheets.maxim-ic.com/en/ds/MAX1487E-MAX491E.pdf  How many volts will it withstand without damage? 15,000. Where is a 'delicate' number? Second, appliances fail for various reasons. A most common is manufacturing defects. We all learned this from a world wide and famous counterfeit electrolyte problem. Capacitors would fail many years later - due to that manufacturing defect. Then many went looking for myths (ie surges) to explain those failures. How many of your failures were due to manufacturing defects? Third, voltage variations are hard on motorized appliances - not on electronics. In fact, we sometimes design electronics with parts that intentionally create a low voltage on power up - to increase life expectancy. Ideal voltage for electronics is any voltage demonstrated by incandescent bulbs - from 50% intensity to double intensity. How often does your electricity vary that much? That is what a power supply does. It converts massive AC voltage variations into DC voltages that do not change by even 0.2 volts. Four, where is this unsteady power? If light bulbs do not vary intensity, then power is perfect - ideal - best - and not harmful. Worse, "unsteady" is a subjective term. It does not define an anomaly and does not have a number. So it is a term that promotes fables, scams, and junk science reasoning. Anomalies include harmonics, sags, bad power factor, RFI, frequency variations, brownout, floating neutral, spikes, intermittent current interruptions, EMC/EMI, noise, open ground, high voltage, and phase variations. Which one is 'unsteady' power? Fifth, best evidence is the dead body. What part inside that computer failed. Without that knowledge, then nobody can say why that computer failed. Only better techs can say what part failed. Techs who fix things by shotgunning often do not even know how electricity works. Would not know what those many anomalies are. Would use wild speculation to blame some fiction such as 'unsteady' power. Six, a battery backup is not a surge protector. But it is to so many who are easily manipulated by advertising, hearsay, wild speculation, and subjective reasoning (no numbers). You have a UPS. That provides temporary and 'dirty' power so that unsaved data can be saved. It does not and does not claim to protect saved data or hardware. More numbers. An output from my 120 volt sine wave UPS: 200 volt square waves with a spike up to 270 volts. Why is power that dirty? Because all electronics are so robust as to safely consume power even dirtier. And yes, it is a sine wave output. We all learned this in high school math. Square waves and spikes are nothing more than a sum of pure sine waves. So they did not lie. They simply made a subjective claim - no numbers. So that naive consumers 'wish' it does something special. If power is unsteady, then incandescent bulbs are changing intensity. If hardware is failing, then a manufacturing defect best explains it. Since we don't have numbers or a list of each failed internal part. 'Dirtiest' power often comes from a UPS. It claims to provide temporary and 'dirty' power. Provide specification numbers that claim to protect hardware. Otherwise that fable only comes from color glossy sales brochures. Legal is to lie using subjective claims. Only place they will not lie is in numeric specifications. And so it is said, "Show me the numbers." BTW I meant to discuss this. No protector does protection. A 'whole house' protector is only as effetive as its earth ground. (Plug-in protectors have no earth ground.) If you suffered surge damage, then your earth ground may be defective. Only you are responsible for providing and maintaining it. A ground that meets code may go from a breaker box, up over the foundation, and down to earth ground electrodes. Perfectly good for code (that defines human protection). And defective (for appliance protection). That ground wire has excessive impedance if too long (ie more than 10 feet). Sharp bends over the foundation increase impedance. It is not separated from other non-grounding wires. If you had damage, then an investigation starts with what does protection. That is not a 'whole house' protector. That is what connects that protector low impedance (ie less than 10 feet) to single point earth ground. A protector is only as effective as its earth ground.

I've been an Electrolux user for quite a while now as well. So far so good. Got an Electrolux efls617siw washer https://www.appliancesconnection.com/electrolux-efls617siw.html, front load, runs quietly, 9 wash cycles. there's a fast cycles I really, really love. Worth every cent in my opinion.