Investigation of Automatic Ball Balancer (ABB) Application in a Horizontal Washing Machine

Rotating machines vibrate due to imbalance. This vibration can cause harmful shocks, reduce reliability, and increase maintenance costs. For this reason, it is crucial to remove or reduce these unwanted vibrations. Sometimes, the unbalance varies in each round of rotation and it is necessary to balance the system with the new amount of unbalance. The washing machine is one of the tools that make the vibrations created in each working cycle different from each other due to the creation of different unbalances. Therefore, to improve the performance of the laundry, the use of an automatic balancer seems to be desirable. The automatic ball balancer, it can balance the system with variable unbalances automatically and without the need for a control system.