The Laundry Alternative Ninja Spin Dryer - Portable for Clothes, 3200 RPM With High Tech Suspension System - for Apartments, RV Travel - Emerald

I bought this as a partner piece along with the Laundry Alternative Wonder Washer drum. It's a perfect pair. The clothes come out of the wonder washer soaked so I have to give them a quick wring before placing them inside the spinner. As the instructions state you need to press the clothes down before you engage the spinner. Worth noting that there is no receptacle for the water in the box so you'll need your own bowl or other way to collect the water that comes out. I have a collapsible basin I use for dishwashing when I travel and that works very well. When you start the machine it can be a little wobbly at first. If it continues to wobble you'll need to stop the spinner, open the lid, and push the clothes down as far as possible into the drum. Once this thing spins up you'll see the water flowing out of the bottom. It gets so much water out of them. There's no timer or clock on the machine so you'll have to watch the water start to stop coming out or 5 minutes, whichever comes first. The instructions state not to run the machine for more than 5 minutes at a time. Honestly I've never needed to let it run that long, the water always stops first. Once it's done I move the clothes to an IKEA clothes drying rack that's been a great purchase. Most things will completely dry within a few hours, even quicker if you add a fan to the equation for some additional air flow to simulate a good outdoor breeze.

The Ninja centrifugal ('spin') clothes dryer is working like I expected.What has surprised me is that it's more gentle starting-up than I thought it'd be and the sound it makes is more of a 'purr ' than the noise I was expecting.I put the dryer on a AC power outlet strip with an on/off switch so I can power-down the dryer without engaging the mechanical brake that is engaged if the power-switch on the dryer is used. In that way I allow the spin dryer to spin down much more slowly than if the brake was engaged (I then use the dryer's power switch to engage the brake once the drum is almost completely stopped).The spin dryer has surprisingly good bearings and it takes several minutes to spin down to whereI engage the mechanical brake (i.e. I turn-off the dryer using its on/off switch with integral brake).So far (without having taken it apart) my best guess is that the spin dryer uses an under-sized two-poleinduction motor and it takes 20 to 30 seconds to get up-to-speed when power is applied.---------------------------I find that it's best to press-down on the dryer housing when it's first turned-on as slight imbalances in the load can cause the dryer to shake as the drum comes-up-to-speed and it passes through mechanical resonant frequencies. Once the drum is spinning pretty well the spin dryer is stable with minor vibrations being felt if the body of the dryer is touched.The feet on the dryer are of a material that serves to damp mechanical vibrations of the case. It is important for the dryer to be sitting directly on a solid surface as otherwise damaging mechanical oscillations (as the drum comes-up-to-speed) might occur.-----------------------------------For someone like me it's OK but it'd be too much of a bottleneck in the wash-cycle for a family with a lot of clothes to wash on a weekly basis.I can stuff 4 or 5 long-sleeve shirts into the dryer or (roughly) 3 bath towels. Then it's about a threeminute spin-cycle to squeeze-out most of the water. After that everything still goes up on hangers for air-drying but there's significantly less water in the fabric (at the start of the air-drying process) compared to if the clothes went straight from the washer to air-drying.The 'Ninja ' centrifugal spin dryer is (in my opinion) targeted at the same people who find 'tiny homes 'an interesting concept.--------------------------------------------------------From what I can tell the overall quality of the Ninja centrifugal ('spin') dryer is good. It isn't 'commercialquality ' but for under $160.00 it's reasonable.The only ventilation louvers for the motor are on the bottom of the case and I'm guessing the designers were worried that water would get inside if they put louvers on the sides.I'd be happier if I could force-air-cool the motor but have sternly 'told-myself ' not to take-out-the-drillwhile the dryer is new.--------------------------------------------------------- Paul

Excelente artículo, trabaja mejor que las lavadoras automáticas, deja la ropa casi seca, solo airearla unas horas y ya queda completamente seca.

Clothes came out almost dry

I’m so happy that I purchased this. I have a condition EDS that makes my joints dislocate easily and getting to the laundry mat and carrying a heavy laundry bag can be difficult. Now to be honest this takes some practice to get the hang of it. But it’s well worth it. Clothes come out so dry that it takes maybe 30 minutes to finish fully drying all my clothes on my drying rack with a big box fan blowing on the clothes. This little spin dryer has handled heavy sweaters, blankets, sheets, towels, pants etc. If it fits it can handle it..I found that the lightest clothes need to go on the bottom of the spin dryer and heavier clothes need to go on top. Then I give the clothes in the spin dryer a little shove to squish them down. If I don’t the whole thing shakes a little. I’ve found hacks that really help make it work perfectly every single time even on fluffy queen size blankets, big heavy sweaters, jeans etc. When doing fluffy blankets clean a heavy bath towel along with soft fluffy blanket. Set fluffy blanket in spin dryer first and then set bath towel on top of blanket inside the spin dryer and push it all down then close lid and turn on.. Pushing down gentle or hard on the clothes doesn’t seem to matter as long as they are pushed down. If you just toss them in the dryer can’t seem to balance correctly. I really shove the clothes in and fill it to the top with no issues. I saw many comments about it in the reviews saying that the shaking and bouncing was awful and it will if you treat it like a normal dryer and the clothes are rung out and tossed in first. It shakes. A lot. I found tossing in soaking wet clothes works best and shoving the clothes down as flat as you can once in the spin dryer and making sure heaviest clothes are on top works best.. The I turn on and hold top of spin dryer down until I’m sure it won’t bounce, ten seconds tops. If it does spin I rearrange the clothes slightly give a shove and try again. It rarely happens though if done correctly. Then I just wait for all the water to come out. If you can place it in a tub or over a drain it is easier because you don’t have to keep emptying a bucket but my small bucket fills twice max per load.I do keep two big square plastic dollar store buckets on hand. See photo. Because it will fill fast and you’ll need to pull it out to dump and place another under it while you do so. I stop my spin dryer when the water bucket fills half full. Wait a minute for water to slow. Dump bucket and then re start. This works best for me. The spin dryer has never taken more than two minutes to fully spin dry my clothes. It’s super energy efficient. Using it every other day my electric bill went up ten dollars but I was also running Christmas lights every day at the same time. So I’m guessing that the spin dryer might cost five dollars a month to run. I personally love it but if you don’t have patience on trial and error and just want something that works perfect no matter what you do this probably isn’t going to be for you. Unless my machine isn’t normal and it came slightly broken or something it does seem to take a little practice. Hope this helps and if you do decide to purchase I hope you love it as much as I love mine.