IFB 5.5kg Turbo Dry Automatic Clothes Dryer (Maxidry EX) vs Blue Star Bottom Loading Water Dispenser (BWD3FMRGA)
What separates them
These two differ on 9 recorded specifications. The IFB 5.5kg Turbo Dry Automatic Clothes Dryer (Maxidry EX) is ₹9,000 dearer.
IFB 5.5kg Turbo Dry Automatic Clothes Dryer (Maxidry EX) vs Blue Star Bottom Loading Water Dispenser (BWD3FMRGA)
IFB
IFB 5.5kg Turbo Dry Automatic Clothes Dryer (Maxidry EX)
₹21,990
Roughly Rs25 a load and 2100 W make this an expensive way to dry clothes in a country where sunlight is free most of the year -- its case is the monsoon, and for a few months it is a genuinely good one.
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Blue Star
Blue Star Bottom Loading Water Dispenser (BWD3FMRGA)
₹12,990
Two specifications separate this from the cheap dispensers it sits beside.
Full details →Who the IFB 5.5kg Turbo Dry Automatic Clothes Dryer is for
Buy it if: Households in heavy monsoon regions with somewhere to vent the hose outside.
Avoid it if: Anyone with no external vent route, and anyone who can line-dry most of the year.
Who the Blue Star Bottom Loading Water Dispenser is for
Buy it if: Homes and small offices getting through a 20 litre bottle regularly who want both hot and genuinely cold water.
Avoid it if: Anyone who thinks this purifies water -- it does not filter anything at all.
Specifications, side by side
9 of 21 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | IFB 5.5kg Turbo Dry Automatic Clothes Dryer | Blue Star Bottom Loading Water Dispenser |
|---|---|---|
| Price | ₹21,990 | ₹12,990 |
| Annual energy use | Roughly 480 kWh a year at 3 loads a week, about Rs3,840 at Rs8 per unit | Roughly 400 kWh a year running continuously, about Rs3,200 at Rs8 per unit |
| BEE star rating | Not rated -- BEE does not cover clothes dryers in India | Not rated -- BEE does not cover water dispensers |
| Capacity | 5.5 kg dry laundry | 20 litre bottle; 3 litre hot, 3 litre cold reservoir |
| Dimensions | 60 x 58 x 85 cm | 33 x 33 x 97 cm |
| Installation | Free standing or wall mounted; must vent warm moist air outside | Free standing, needs a mains socket |
| Noise level | About 62 dB | About 40 dB when the compressor runs |
| Rated power | 2100 W | 500 W heating, 100 W cooling |
| Refrigerant | Not applicable -- this is a vented dryer, not a heat pump | R134a |
| Weight | 30 kg | 17 kg |
| BEE rating year | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| ISEER | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| Warranty | 1 Year Official Brand Warranty | 1 Year Official Brand Warranty |
| Anti-crease | Tumbles intermittently after the cycle ends | not published |
| Child lock | not published | On the hot tap |
| Cooling | not published | Compressor, not thermoelectric, so it genuinely chills rather than merely cooling |
| Cycle time | About 90 minutes for a full 5.5 kg load | not published |
| Hot water | not published | Reaches about 90 degrees C |
| Loading | not published | Bottom loading -- the bottle sits in a cabinet, no lifting a 20 kg bottle overhead |
| Not a purifier | not published | This dispenses and conditions bottled water; it does not filter or purify anything |
| Not condensing | A condenser or heat-pump dryer needs no vent but costs more; this one must be vented | not published |
| Running cost | Roughly Rs25 a load | not published |
Every row is a figure one or both products record. A blank is a figure the catalogue does not hold, not a zero.
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