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Condenser · 8 kg
Living & CO MDC80-CH01/B05E-AU(7)-P2 Clothes Dryer
Living & CO MDC80-CH01/B05E-AU(7)-P2 is a 8 kg condenser clothes dryer registered for sale in New Zealand under the trans-Tasman E3 energy rating scheme (registration ZCD0097).
- Capacity
- 8 kg
- Condenser
- Energy rating
- 7
- Annual electricity use
- 146 kWh
- Label: 146 kWh · 2.8 kWh per load
- Estimated running cost
- $48 / year
- $482 over 10 years
- Control
- Auto-sensing · cotton extra (Extra + Cotton) programme
5% more electricity than the median of 128 comparable 8 kg condenser dryer registrations (139 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 47% of them. At your rates that is about $2 a year more than the median, $23 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 8 kg condenser dryer sold in New Zealand, 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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Living & CO MDC80-CH01 specifications
- Type (government)
- Condenser
- Rated capacity
- 8.0 kg
- Combination washer-dryer
- No
- Control
- autosensing
- Programme tested
- cotton extra (Extra + Cotton)
- Programme time
- 237 min
- Moisture removed in test
- 6.37 kg
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- –
- Annual energy (label)
- 146 kWh
- Star rating index
- 7.56
- Country of manufacture
- China
New Zealand E3 registration details
- Registration number
- ZCD0097
- GEMS registration id
- 151948
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- n/a (NZ registration)
- Registered for sale in
- New Zealand
- Family
- –
- Regulatory standard
- EE Amendment Regulations 2025 Schedule 2F
- Test standard
- AS/NZS 2442.1:1996/Amdt 4:2006
Source: E3 programme registration data (EECA, New Zealand) (trans-Tasman E3 registration data published by DCCEEW on data.gov.au, CC BY 3.0 AU). Dataset published 20 September 2026; last checked 20 September 2026. Manufacturer: midea.cn. How the derived figures are calculated.