connected in an air flow relationship with the air inlet and outlet apertures so that air is drawn into the drum 22 by way of the aperture 26 after first passing the heating element 38 and is withdrawn from the drum through the aperture 28 an electric motor 42 drives the blower 29 and is also provided to rotate the drum 22 by means of a drive pulley 43 a tensioning idler pulley 41 and a belt 44 at least one sensor 30 is provided which can be in contact with the clothes load during the drying operation while the drum is rotating the sensor 30 is comprised of two electrodes 32 and 34 which are connected by a pair of conductors 50 52 to a low voltage moisture sensor circuit 36 as shown in fig2 a digital control circuit is generally shown at 48 and includes the sensor circuit 36 which is connected to the sensor electrodes 32 34 a digital millisecond counter circuit 54 which is driven by a timing crystal 56 a memory storage 58 and the control logic circuit 60 for reading the states of a counter 54 and the stored values in the memory storage 58 for indexing the memory storage 58 the control logic circuit 60 includes a plurality of outputs for controlling various machine functions and accordingly for controlling the program of the dryer a first output is indicated by the electrical connection line 61 which extends from the control logic circuit 60 to the heating element 38 for controlling the application of heat to the.