Carolina Pride Question

[1carwash1]

I was looking at a Carolina Pride brochure and it appeared that they use a hyrominder to fill their rinse tank. Is this correct or am I missing something? Also, it appears that they only use one storage tank for all wash related functions. If this is the case, then I presume that the entire wash runs on either cold or hot water. I currently use hot water for all functions except rinse (cold water). what advantage is their system over mine?

 

[Eric H]

When I bought my Carolina Pride pump stand (in 2004) it had a hydrominder (something bigger than a 511) to fill the hot water tank. A few months later they sent a float valve under warranty because they were having issues. In any case, I would replace whatever float it comes with with a Jobe valve.
The cold water rinse is direct fed with city water.
You can feed hot or cold water to each hydrominder for the low pressure tanks. Just put a hot and cold manifold on the wall behind the pump stand and just use whichever water line you want. I had all of my LP tanks fed with hot.

 

[MEP001]

It uses a 572 Hydrominder for the "rinse" tank, but the water for rinse is fed to the pump from solenoids, most likely the same as your current setup.

 

[1carwash1]

It uses a 572 Hydrominder for the "rinse" tank, but the water for rinse is fed to the pump from solenoids, most likely the same as your current setup.

What am I missing, it seems like the rinse tank outlet is directly connected to the pump inlet.

 

[MEP001]

It is, and if you plumb hot water to it and have cold rinse, the actual rinse selection is fed direct from city pressure by the solenoid. Only soap and wax draw from the hot water in the tank.

 

[1carwash1]

It is, and if you plumb hot water to it and have cold rinse, the actual rinse selection is fed direct from city pressure by the solenoid. Only soap and wax draw from the hot water in the tank.

Are you saying that the pump has two inlets, one for hot one for cold? Their online brochure only shows one inlet for rinse the other inlet is for the regulator bypass. Hence the confusion.

 

[MEP001]

The confusion lies in what you're calling "rinse." Hot water for the pump comes from the tank. Hot water is for soap and wax. Cold water is for rinse. All the water comes into the pump from the same inlet. They may label the tank "rinse," but it's not if you have hot AND cold water.