Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products: Test Procedure for Clothes Washers
other · US Department of Energy · Published 2003-10-31 · Effective 2004-01-01 · 68 FR 62198
Document
Document number
03-27468
Federal Register citation
68 FR 62198
CFR reference
10 CFR 430
Type
Rule
Action
Direct final rule.
Category
other
Sub-agency
US Department of Energy
Publication date
2003-10-31
Effective date
2004-01-01
Energy docket
Docket No. EE-RM/TP-03-100
Abstract
The Department of Energy (Department or DOE) today promulgates an amendment to the test procedure for measuring the energy consumption of clothes washers. The amendment changes one of the spin cycles required for testing the cloth used in the extraction phase of the test procedure by replacing the lowest spin cycle of 50 gravitation (g) force with a spin cycle of 100g. The 50g spin cycle produced inconsistent and unreliable test results. This amendment also adds as a testing requirement the use of an additional statistical analysis to qualify the interactive effect between different lots of the test cloth and spin speeds to improve consistency with the baseline data.