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Congratulations! I hope you will keep us posted on how it goes. I'm glad to learn that they have a 480VAC option, it should make your installation and occasional electrical needs easier.

I have 3 Laserwash 4000's side by side. The center Bay does half of the washing every day. It averages 60 cpd and the most it has ever done in a 24 hour period is 204 cars. The entire site averages 118 cpd and the most ever is 584 in a day. The site is located in an area of 16,000.

I checked the specs on this machine and it was definitely not designed for the US Market. It appears to have been designed for the European Market. It requires 380 VAC 3 phase which is not supplied by any US Electrical company. There will either have to be 3 step up transformers to take 208 to...

The photo eyes can be mounted to the wall and angled down to read the front of the vehicle. This is how PDQ and Wash World both accomplish this. You will have to figure the wall placement on where you want the front bumper rather than the tire. The eyes typically are 18-24 inches apart. The...

Impressive work. Since you have made so many changes, controlling doors and virtual treadles would be easy. The doors just need outputs to simulate a button push on the door controller. A warning though, most door controllers are PNP and not NPN like most car wash PLC input cards. You may have...

Stupid phone. You can buy VFD's that take 240 VAC Single Phase in and output 208 VAC Three phase. Since you don't currently have any equipment though it would be easier to buy something like a GinSan Direct drive that can be powered with 240 VAC Single Phase. Then you don't have to fool with...

The honest answer is that it depends on your soaps. Some soaps can easily handle some water hardness with no perceived drop off in cleaning and therefore no reason to increase your soap usage. Others are highly sensitive to hardness and would require you to waste soap cleaning the water. You...

If you aren't already, you should be running the high pressure pump at 1100 - 1200 psi for the undercarriage and first rinse pass after the soaps only. All other passes that use the high pressure pump should use the conservation valve to reduce the pressure to as close to 400 psi as you can get...

Since there's no chemical injector, it's probably the rinse tank.

With touchless cleaning chemistry is more important than physics, but yes zero degree nozzles impart more impingement and can therefore offer additional cleaning if the chemistry is doing anything at all. To make the alteration that you are seeking, you will need the CAT 3535 pump on your pump...

OurTown is right that you should focus on the equipment in the bay first, especially the meter box and if it doesn't have it yet I would recommend adding a dryer to each bay. If you really want new equipment then I would recommend the GinSan Direct Drive with an off board Low Pressure System...

Provided there is a second bearing on the other end of the roller, then yes those are all the parts

Like Jsobi said gearboxes get slop in them as they age. You can get more time out of them by overinflating the tires. This will serve as a kind of clamp on the rail between the tire and rollers. It will buy you time, but while running this way you will be putting more stress on the rollers...

Start by checking your bridge tire pressures. They should be between 25 and 28 psi. If they are right then you may have a bad bridge gearbox.

Yes. If you have 240 3 Phase VAC then the power company will typically supply you with 250 VAC with spikes up to 275 VAC. This will cause the 24 volt stepdown transformer to put out 27 - 28 VAC. Anything over 26.5 VAC will usually take out the dual amplifier for the stop/backup eyes. What...

I would just replace the hopper switches on the quarter hopper and token hopper on the Hamilton. The switch is $40-$50 each. Then you can reset the controllers and most likely get the Hamilton working. After you get going and have some capital, I would look at making improvements to the...

We used reflectors to create guide lines on the floor, but you can also set the abort zone on the VT to kick them out of the bay if they are too far to the right.

I used .083 injectors for all four setups. I didn't see any hazing and I did run the Salt Assault year round. I also ran the COMPASS setup with CPS101 instead of CPS104 but we had eyebrow issues in late November and December every year, so I switched to CPS104 year round.

Reliably removing the eyebrow requires constant attention to 5 details. They are water quality, water temperature, chemistry, impingement, and dwell time. With a touchless you can not just set it up and walk away. You must constantly check to make sure your draws and pressures are staying the...

The Startup Test Wheel Well means that the X31 input was on during a startup test. This causes the machine to believe there is a vehicle in the bay. Unless you have 20C in your A5000 this will shutdown the car wash until it is forced to do a new startup test and sees the problem cleared. If...