Demographics will affect relative success of certain things. FWIW instead of committing to do the entire place and spend $ without knowing the return I first added bill acceptors to half the bays (Some people experience vandalism which make this a no go) . The return /experience justified me doing the other half. Same with CC accepters and dualers. .
To the contrary, at more than double reported industry average that is great.
Doug, what percentage increase in sales did you see after the remodel verses before? What do you attribute the 26% increase this year to?
It will work.. Have no fear..
Do you guys set up a seperate breaker panel, one breaker for each unit for these dryers?
Not sure how this pans out if you have the 110v, but we have the 208v air shammees, and we use the same breaker for each air shammee as the hp pump for that bay. Since there is no chance of both being on at the same time. I believe this is what most do.
Earl ... not sure on how your existing in bay electrical is & whether this could apply to your setup ... but when we updated from our vintage 1987 less power required 3 smaller motor Specialty-Doyle Blo Drys we realized that amperage was going to be an issue & tried to keep the havoc to our existing electrical panels & new aluminum conduit & new boxes to the bays to a minimum. What saved us was that we tapped into some of our existing 110VAC in the bays that was no longer needed because of the new low voltage G&G 24VDC LED Lighting. In our case we used Square D (2 in the space of 1) breakers but still had to run one additional aluminum box with only one short run additional aluminum conduit out to & within our closest bay. We were advised that we could also use a time delay relays but we went with the double breakers to replace the existing single breakers & a bit more wiring instead. Time delay relay would make sure both of the higher amp single phase motors don't start at the same moment causing a code violation ... unless 10 gauge wire is run with 30 amp breakers etc.
I'd recommend that as well. I remember someone who was about to pull the plug on an IBA install because the city wanted him to install a new 400 amp panel (at a cost of over $10,000) since the auto and the dryers would have overloaded the old one. When I pointed out to the city engineer that both would not ever be on together he said it was okay as it was.
