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Originally Posted by iggy07
mommabear,
Sorry, I don't have a manual to refer to, but I'm fairly sure it doesn't have a soak for heavy loads. But would the machine agitate for a short time before the soak cycle?
Thanks for the reply!
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Mine does. If it didn't agitate a few minutes at first then the clothes wouldn't be mixed well with the soapy water.
The reason I brought up the soak cycle is because I often bypass it on my big loads. My dial starts with Super Wash 4 (minutes), then there's a blank area with no dots (graphically speaking) on the dial, then Heavy Duty 14 (minutes), with more graphic dots til it gets to Normal Wash 10 (minutes). I usually just dial it up to the Normal Wash when I start a load. But it's easy to miss the exact spot on the dial and the washer can appear to be stalling, when it's really still got a few seconds or minutes to go with the idle soaking, before the next cycle kicks in.
I also don't use my delicate cycle that often but I believe it also agitates a bit to mix the soapy water into the clothes before stopping for a soak time.
Whether you have a soak cycle or not, it could mean that the timer is starting to fail. But it could also simply mean that you've started it between normal cycling; and the pause is normal for that machine and it just has to tick its way to the next step.