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by pavs 4515 days ago
he said "don't have the power required to complete a wash cycle", meaning the power the stay continuously long enough to finish washing.
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I understood it as during the washing cycle power demands fluctuate, peak, and there is not enough power for that. Like memory, your process starts, has a memory peak after 15min and you get an out of memory error. Does not run through.
You're both possibly right -- as in I've seen both those things happen several times a week, for months.
Thanks for the information.