Dryer costs, temperature & Cool down times

[Kitty]

I saw in another post mention of this and come to think of this we really have not even discussed this one...cool down times. I am sure the cool down times may vary from owner to owner. I know we fiddled with our manufacture setting when the gas crunch came last time...With this newest wave of a increase in costs will anyone manipilate the cool down times in addition to reduce time on the dryers?

[Anonymous]

Temperature is a meaningless variable to discuss as it is measured differently on every model of dryer and 140 on a given dryer may be hotter than 180 on another.

Cool down if you educate your customers is another non-issue. Customers should be educated to pull 30 minutes on the dryer (or there about) to start with and not run it for a quarter at a time - if they do they are getting screwed by cool down. If they operate the dryers correctly then whether it is two minutes or one minute is almost irrelevenat and to eliminate it totally is asking for a law suit when a customer scalds themselves on a hot metal buckle.

[Laundry_king]

I think if you have a 9 min dry cycle in stead of a 1 minute cool down make it a 2 minute cool down.

This way you’re only giving 7 min on a single cycle.

I notice no matter how hard you want and try to teach your customers thy think you ripping them off.
I see this all the time when they use to larger washer too.

But that is not the question in hand. If you have a dryer giving 7 minutes a single cycle have a 2 minute cool down.

I have seen this done not saying it the right thing to do but the time which your customers see won’t change but you gas bill might.

Don’t take the cool off cycle off that is just NUTS
HMMMM doughnuts--D'oh!

[ajay]

wasco td3030 dryer factory default setting is with 3 min cool time for maximum performance. I have them set at that - and temperature set at max. Even with this setting, the clothes come out hot. One thing people don't complain about is my dryers not being hot enough.....Having said that, with the number of discussion we had on gas increase, I will be changing my dryers time to 7min this week and then possibly to six in peak winter(depending on how much "heat" I get from customers).


ajay

[helloroe]

We are set at 190 degrees for 6 min with 2 min cool down with no big complaints. (Dexter salesman set them when he was in teaching me how they work!) We are in a strip mall though and people usually buy more time then they need in the dryers because they are getting their shopping done and do not want to have their clothes pulled while they are gone due to their dryer is stopped and it is needed. Of course you always have people checking the tempatures on the dryers themselves and if they catch it during a cool down period education begins. Every so often someone goes to the guy down the street with more minutes but they realize his are set much lower and they spend more time and money and come running back!

[David]

I think I may try to change mine to .50 to start instead of changing cool down.

I'm at .25/7min now.

I'll have to do something.