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Old 01-31-2015, 03:45 PM
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out of curiosity how does this work? normally you're feeding water under pressure to the machine and I'm guessing a solenoid in the machine opens and closes. is the barrel elevated to gravity feed into it instead?
The water barrel isn't tied into the washing machine's plumbing, I just turn off the cold water tap and manually fill it from the barrel with a Danner Mag Drive pump which has a hose on its output. When the water level in the washing machine reaches the right hight the solenoid mechanism makes a 'click' noise, I unplug the pump and remove the hose. We have an old top load washing machine, if it was a new front load I don't think this method would work.
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