Clothes washer rinse testing

摘要

The imminent introduction of mandatory water efficiency labelling for household clothes washing machines, as specified in AS/NZS 6400:2005 Water efficient products - Rating and labelling, expedited the introduction of a rinse performance test into the clothes washer performance Standard AS/NZS 2040.1:1998 Performance of household electrical appliances Clothes washing machines - Energy consumption and performance. Without a rinse performance test, it was possible for clothes washer suppliers to reduce the quantity of water used for rinsing in order to gain a higher water efficiency star rating, without having to take into consideration that the resulting rinse performance may not have been acceptable to many consumers.