Edit It's 17:08 now and it still shows 3 minutes
Edit 2 It's 17:15 now and it has been on 0 minutes for 3 full minutes....
Those aren't minutes, they're drying time units, which last as long as the dryer decides it wants them to last on any particular day.
Now I'm confused, how many drying time units are in a galactic standard week?
I can understand the confusion, drying time units is actually a measure of distance not speed.
Depends how wet the week is.
A washer or dryer is never late. Nor it it early. It finishes precisely when it means to.
One thing I pride myself on is the ability to see through my dryer's bullshit. I know that 30 minutes really means 45 you damn liar.
Yeah I should have known, started the thing at 12:26 (actually know this because I called my wife to check if we had 3 hours and 38 minutes before we needed to go), its 17:18 and I just got the door open....
If you haven't already, clean the dryer vent thoroughly, including the whole exhaust vent leading outside. This should be done at least once a year. Once the vent is clear it should speed up drying, if not it might be the dryer itself and the manual might have solutions.
Here are some guides: https://www.familyhandyman.com/article/how-to-clean-a-dryer-vent/ https://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/home-diy/projects/dryer-vent-cleaning.htm
I much prefer hang drying.
The primary downside is that it's no fun to do it when it rains, neither indoors or outdoors, but as long as you time your laundry well enough, it's all good.
Nothing like spring/summer outdoor fresh dried laundry
It's -11°F where I am today, my family still lives in Jamaica and I envy their ability to hang their clothes so much.
It should be possible to hang your clothes indoors still, I guess. Outdoors as well I've been told, when it's a bit below freezing, but I'll admit that I've never actually tried that.
At home I hang most of the clothes, but we where at a short trip and we had some wet towels and swimgear, so de decided to just do one full laundry with most of our wet and dirty clothes. The first duration before I even started the cycle was that it should be done at about 16:10 it was actually done more than an hour later.
Then the lying whore sings a cheerful little tune after it fucked up my schedule.
How can this be an estimation, and how is it so wrong? Doesn't the program just have a hard-coded length? Or does the time vary based on clothing weight or something? This seems so utterly strange to me.
Seems to be a washing machine. 1600RPM spin dry.
The problem occurs because there are 2 conditions that need to be fulfilled.
Its programmed to spin at set RPM for 6 mins.
Before it can initiate a full speed spin it needs to ensure the drum is balanced. If its off balanced it will damage the spin motor and other parts of the machine in short order. (reference old machines that sound like an earthquake during spin cycles). It will keep attempting to adjust the clothes by start-stopping so clothes can fall in place. Only when the vibrations are down to acceptable levels will the machine initiate a full speed spin dry. Machine will stay stuck at set spin time until condition 2 is fulfilled.
The way to fix this is to open up the machine, untangle balled up clothes and allow the spin dry to resume.
I find you get much more accurate estimates when you don't overstuff the machine. You're supposed to keep it 60-70% full to allow for proper agitation. Lots of people top it off.
Very good reply, just one thing to add, it's both a washer and dryer, we did a full wash dry cycle.
Our dryer does this to us:
Put clothes in, start it - it estimates 35 units of time. Come back in 15 minutes to check, it says 15 units left. Come back in 15 minutes, it now says 21 units left.
I am, like all of us, unsure of the fundamental nature of time. But the dryer even more so. The units are not one standard length, and they don't move always in the same direction.
Valve time; the phenomenon is often observed in software development, with some calling it the software development time.
Jokes aside, reading this thread makes me appreciate the old junk for the washing machine I have around here much more - at least it's accurate with time!
Software development time:
Time to clean your dryer venting.
And camera lens.
and the microphone.
just in case they couldn't spy correctly anymore.
OP looking down on the unwashed masses after complaining about his fancy washing machine:
Had the exact same experience the other day. Fuck these machines, fuck printers, fuck microwave ovens, fuck software updates and fuck time estimates in general.
My washing machine over-estimates at first, it drops nearly an hour after it gets going. However, it will underestimate later on.
Also, it does this thing where it beeps that it's starting, doesn't do anything, then unlocks the door for a few seconds, then locks it again and actually starts. That's been a life saver for catching that one sock that got left behind and didn't make it into the drum.
Exactly. It is critical to learn what the machine means when not under time pressure.
My dryer has a couple different presets which all adjust the remaining time dynamically according to a predetermind dryness level. To get around this, I just use the "custom" setting and change the temperature and timer manually.
Must be a Welsh machine. I'll be there now, in a minute.
The labelling is in Dutch, so it's either a Dutch or a Flemish machine.
It was a joke, since the Welsh say "I'll do it now, straight away" for immediately, but "Now, in a minute" for I'll do it, but have no estimate of when it will get done.
I much prefer an estimating timer that reliably dries all the clothes rather than a reliable timer that estimates the clothes are dry.
I see you bought a dryer that's in Hawaiian time
No worries, just go with the flow it'll work out
Fun fact though typically the last little bit of drying in the dryer is just cool down time, so just reach in there and grab those toasty boxers, you'll be fine
The developers just put their own logic into its estimation software.
That's a fancy dryer.
Mines purely mechanical. Old school timer runs the dryer
We call it “the longest minute” in my house.
Im still waiting for the last edit OP, dont leave us hanging
I think it was 17:18 when the door lock finally opened. The very first time estimate said it should be ready at 16:10. So it was definitely a big lie.