Dishwasher without splicing your water supply
By Liam McNulty 
posted Oct 26th 2005 2:00AM
posted Oct 26th 2005 2:00AM
We're not sure exactly how many people a product like this would apply to, but Sanyo has developed a dishwasher that doesn't need to be connected directly to your water supply. Just attach the included "Water Supply Socket" directly to your faucet, and run it until the dishwasher's LED lights up and its buzzer sounds. Inside the unit are two storage tanks, which eliminates the need for a valve to control the flow of water to the dishwasher. A full load will use 9 liters (2.37 gallons) of water, which, last we checked, isn't a lot compared to other washers. Otherwise, you're looking at a standard dishwasher.
This sounds like a great idea for lazy campers who don't want to deal with their dishes. That is for campers who go camping on camping grounds, which, to me, doesn't really sounds like camping, but anyway...
Is it just me or is this "new" product just regurgitated from about 10yrs back? My parents had one that worked just like this...
Nothing to see here folks, move along now...
Dish washers that attached to the sink tap have been around for as long as there were dishwashers. My grandparents first dishwasher did that. It was like a big cube shaped thing on wheels with hoses comming out of it. Looked like a freezer but.... not....
No kids, this actually is different.
The old style (We had one for years) attached to the faucet and more or less took control of your faucet for the duration of the load. This presents a couple of problems:
1 - If you want a drink or something you have to stop the dish washer and remove the nozzle. Ours has a passthrough, but you would get hot water and it came out at a dismal rate.
2 - Emergency. Sometimes that sucker would slip partially off. One time this flooded the kitchen.
This Sanyo dishwasher only takes over your faucet for long enough to fill up the tank inside, then you unhook it from the faucet and all it needs is a power supply.
Wicked! I want one! :-)
My place hasn't got a dishwasher, nor room to plumb one in. I'll take two!
This is all well and good, but what happens when it needs to drain? As I remember this was why you had to leave the hose on the bib when the older style of these was working otherwise a flood would ensue.
Actually, this is something I've been searching for. In my apartment, the pipes are fairly old and can't take the pressure required by a normal split feed, plus the faucet essentially can't be removed to install the special 'connect and go' connector.
I've always wondered why they didn't just have a separate tank in the dishwasher to hold the water and for that matter to heat it to a useful temp.
I guess someone else thought of it too. Now - how much and where can I get one?
It would be great if it could distillate the waste water for reuse. But that'd probably require some additional power, water & air filters.
japan
x no. of yen
How useless, would be less effort and faf to just do them by hand..
This actually makes a lot of sense in Japan - especially for renters. Where we live (in a place we own) we were able to remove our faucet and connect the dishwasher below the handle so that we can still use water while washing, in rental places you really can`t do something like that. It`s a pain if you can`t. This is sort of nice because you just fill it up and let it go. Of course, it`s not something that I can ever imagine making it in the US market.
It looks nice, comparing to the non-electric, water-powered cylinder dishwasher that does the same thing (except drying). But standard dishwashers were sold (at an option) as "portable", faucet-connected, and had inoffensive looks; however, the low-end-featured dishwasher became a pricey one with all of the stuff added to make it "portable".
Oh my! More like an exhumation. My parents had something like this around 40 years ago. Theirs also had a pass through so you could use the water while the little dishies we getting a scrubbing. Of course there were no LED's or buzzers. You knew the thing was done when it stopped shaking around. Very High Tech.
I'd like to ask why the hell would you want to drink water straight from the tap? Are you crazy or do you have a automatic purifyer system built in your irrigation system?
Drink purified water, and if you don't want to drink that then drink something from the frige! GAWD tap water is nasty....
Also, it's neat to see these little gizmo's around to better life for the highly unprobable chances of using it. I'm sure starving people love america for this :)
Lots of places have great tap water. And it's purified to the point that it's probably as good or better than a lot of bottled waters.
Indeed, my grandparents had one that worked like this...just after dinner you wheeled the dishwasher over to the sink, hooked it up and let it rip.
"This is all well and good, but what happens when it needs to drain? As I remember this was why you had to leave the hose on the bib when the older style of these was working otherwise a flood would ensue."
It's only a 2.37 gallon tank, it's like lifting two gallons of milk out - it's just a tank you remove and dump ... I have a friend who has a similar unit thast he brought back from europe, it's great, better than my full size!
Hey inventors! It takes me 10 minutes to wash the dishes, cookware, and accessories after a meal. It isn't a problem. I use my dishwasher weekly just 'cause it's included in the rent, but I *don't need it.* What do I need? A *washing machine* like this. I'm only in a three-flat, but competition for the long washing machine is still pretty fierce. So let's get on it, kthxplz?
http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/602-4334888-1400602?asin=B000674526&AFID=Froogle&ref=tgt_adv_XSG10001
Kinda like that.. but I don't see a tank on that model... $149 though...