Jan, almost all dish washers fill on time only. They do have a float but it is to prevent over filling only. If you run the hot water until it is good and hot and then start your dish washer, what is the water temperature? It might be that the dishwasher fill volume is not enough to trip your recirculator pump.
The hot water line runs about 27" inside the cabinet (temp average 60) - maybe another 24" to cross the back of the DW, and come up underneath where it connects. Just tested… a 1/2" pipe x 24" long - holds slightly less than 4oz. So, even if the line was 4' long and 1/2" in diameter, it wouldn't hold over 8 oz. Doesn't seem like that's enough to dilute the hot water coming in that much. I'll have to do some more testing with this theory.
Evidently dishwashers do not note how much water goes in - just fills to a point that activates the control panel……my water level is to the correct notch so it's getting plenty of water. GE says the profile uses 5gal a cycle — but doesn't specify which cycle. I purchased this because it has the best reviews of all the new ones, even beating out much more expensive models - though you can't call these cheap :)
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