Product review (5 stars): Little machine is great; owner's manual is a nightmare
This machine works excellently well. Excellently! It's quick and quiet, and does a very good job of getting clothes very clean. It's not quite as hands-off as a full-sized washing machine, but that's a small price to pay.

The owner's manual was extremely minimal to start with, and got translated from the Chinese by someone whose English was not up to the task. Here is what you need to know:

To fill it, you MUST hook the drain hose up as shown in the image. If you leave it down, the water flows out through it.

It's not wise to fill it as full as possible of either laundry or water. If you fill it too full of water, it will splash some out of the screw-holes joining the top to the body of the washer. This water then runs down and could conceivably enter the motor cabinet. I have found that adding water only as far as the end of the corrugations on the hooked-up drain hose largely prevents this.

If you overfill it with laundry, the clothes may not get very clean, and you may burn out the motor.

The Owner's Manual, translated from the Chinese by someone who hadn't quite got the hang of English yet, tells you to add 1" of water, put in the detergent, and agitate for 1 minute before adding clothes. I've found it more sensible to add about 4" of water, the detergent, and the clothes, then complete the filling: but I use liquid detergent. Powdered soap may well require that extra step.

In the beginning, this will allow you to estimate the size of load the Panda can effectively accommodate. The OM says not more than 5 lbs., about 2.25 kg, but I've found a 2-2.5 lb,/1kg load to be most effective. (Fits nicely into a 5-quart/liter bucket.)

You will need roughly 1/8 the amount of detergent you do with a standard washing machine.

The infill hose presented a bit of a problem for my situation; it was difficult to keep it from kinking. Eventually, I used a couple of bread-tie twists to craft a hook it hangs from when in use.

You will want to place the Panda so that the drain hose, when hooked, is over a sink. During agitation, it often spews small amounts of water. It's also wise to expect it to need mopping up after; it will condense water on its blue shell if nothing else.

And that's it! These are small accommodations to be (almost: sheets and towels) free of the laundromat!

I've used it for two months now, and at this point, I have it figured out well enough to hook it up and walk away.

I use the Panda with&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Nina-Soft-Spin-Dryer/dp/B00CDWTQKI/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Nina Soft Spin Dryer</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Easy-Dry-Portable-Clothes-Dryer/dp/B001DKJXK4/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Easy Dry- Portable Clothes Dryer</a>. The Nina is very fast and quiet, and extremely effective. The Easy Dry is ... not noisy, but imagine an oversized hair dryer. It also pumps out a fair amount of heat. Nice in winter, not so much in summer.

The three of them together will earn back their cost for me in about 6 months.