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Condenser · 8 kg
TCL C1208DRW Clothes Dryer
TCL C1208DRW is a 8 kg condenser clothes dryer registered under Australia’s Energy Rating (GEMS) scheme (registration ACD0678).
- Capacity
- 8 kg
- Condenser
- Energy rating
- 8
- Annual electricity use
- 131 kWh
- Label: 131 kWh · 2.5 kWh per load
- Estimated running cost
- $42 / year
- $419 over 10 years
- Control
- Auto-sensing · Cotton programme
5% less electricity than the median of 125 comparable 8 kg condenser dryer registrations (138 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 67% of them. At your rates that is about $2 a year less than the median, $22 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 8 kg condenser dryer sold in Australia, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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kWh and cost on the label usage basis; the product page adjusts to your usage.
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kWh and cost on the label usage basis; the product page adjusts to your usage.
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TCL C1208DRW specifications
- Type (government)
- Condenser
- Rated capacity
- 8.0 kg
- Combination washer-dryer
- No
- Control
- autosensing
- Programme tested
- Cotton
- Programme time
- 240 min
- Moisture removed in test
- 6.26 kg
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 598 × 845 × 652 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 131 kWh
- Star rating index
- 8.23
- Country of manufacture
- China
Australian GEMS registration details
- Registration number
- ACD0678
- GEMS registration id
- 151510
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 1 February 2028
- Registered for sale in
- Australia
- Family
- –
- Regulatory standard
- Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Rotary Clothes Dryers) Determination 2024
- Test standard
- AS/NZS 2442.1:1996/Amdt 4:2006
Source: Australian Government Energy Rating (GEMS) registration data, DCCEEW via data.gov.au (CC BY 3.0 AU). Dataset published 20 September 2026; last checked 20 September 2026. Manufacturer: tcl.com/au. How the derived figures are calculated.