Back up plate

[Bricks]

Hey folks. I have a Hydro Spray rainmaker at one of my washes. Today it was cranking out the cars until a girl in a jeep ran past both the STOP and BACKUP treadle plates with the front tires and landed the back tire on the stop treadle. Well the carriage moved forward and the photo eyes never made because she was up too far.
This of course shut the machine down and I started getting calls. This has happened several times over the last 2.5 years and I’m looking for a solution. There’s a sign that points to where your front tire is supposed to stop. It’s stressing me out.

 

[washnshine]

What gets me when I hear things like this is that the front of her car was probably out of your building- unless you have a very long bay.

 

[OurTown]

Setting up a text alert for machine faults is what I would be looking into. Also, a way to remotely reset the machine. Wouldn't the program see that the back up treadle was not made again before the stop treadle was made again? It seems logical to me that it should be programmed that way to prevent this situation.

 

[Greg Pack]

Setting up a text alert for machine faults is what I would be looking into. Also, a way to remotely reset the machine. Wouldn't the program see that the back up treadle was not made again before the stop treadle was made again? It seems logical to me that it should be programmed that way to prevent this situation.

If you have hard wires that you can tie into to for reset and OOS you can use yolink. They will send push notifications or emails.

 

[Bricks]

What gets me when I hear things like this is that the front of her car was probably out of your building- unless you have a very long bay.

Right. Damn near

 

[Bricks]

Setting up a text alert for machine faults is what I would be looking into. Also, a way to remotely reset the machine. Wouldn't the program see that the back up treadle was not made again before the stop treadle was made again? It seems logical to me that it should be programmed that way to prevent this situation.

I was watching the bay camera on my phone while trying to reset the machine with the iPad and it was lagging. When I got there the VFD breaker had tripped.

 

[Bricks]

If you have hard wires that you can tie into to for reset and OOS you can use yolink. They will send push notifications or emails.

I check the cameras pretty much constantly on busy days…usually while I’m at the other wash. In this case, the customer behind the ding bat that pulled up too far called. So I knew right away.

 

[GoBuckeyes]

I’m guessing you maybe have a rainmaker? We run several old Southern Pride turbos and one of them still has a treadle pad for the front tire. To prevent the occasional idiot that ends up parking their back tire on the pad rather than their front tire and starting the wash we added a photo eye about 6 feet before the pad in series with the pad input. By doing this, if the eye isn’t blocked by the body of the car then the pad input will not make it to the PLC. Works well.

 

[Bricks]

I’m guessing you maybe have a rainmaker? We run several old Southern Pride turbos and one of them still has a treadle pad for the front tire. To prevent the occasional idiot that ends up parking their back tire on the pad rather than their front tire and starting the wash we added a photo eye about 6 feet before the pad in series with the pad input. By doing this, if the eye isn’t blocked by the body of the car then the pad input will not make it to the PLC. Works well.

Thank you! I’ll try it if I can figure it out.

 

[moe10]

Bricks, random question been trying to figure out how to remotely access my rainmaker. What program are you using to connect through your phone or ipad to reset machine.

I have the same issue with people placing the back wheels on treadle and having to reset the machine to get it started again. Despite having signs and a back up pad some people don't seem to get the message.

 

[Bricks]

Bricks, random question been trying to figure out how to remotely access my rainmaker. What program are you using to connect through your phone or ipad to reset machine.

I have the same issue with people placing the back wheels on treadle and having to reset the machine to get it started again. Despite having signs and a back up pad some people don't seem to get the message.

AnyDesk

 

[moe10]

AnyDesk

So do you have the carwash system hooked up to a computer onsite and you remotely access the computer?

 

[washnshine]

Any Desk is awesome!

 

[george361]

Sounds like your end of track limit switch might not be working or out of adjustment ? Did the carriage keep trying to move forward to find the front of the car against the rail stop safety, causing the VFD over current condition? The rainmaker should 1) get treadle input 2) move carriage until set number of clicks past front photo eye 3) send tower across front . If front photo eye never breaks it should shutdown on lap switch timer with carriage at front end of track limit

 

[Bricks]

Sounds like your end of track limit switch might not be working or out of adjustment ? Did the carriage keep trying to move forward to find the front of the car against the rail stop safety, causing the VFD over current condition? The rainmaker should 1) get treadle input 2) move carriage until set number of clicks past front photo eye 3) send tower across front . If front photo eye never breaks it should shutdown on lap switch timer with carriage at front end of track limit

You’re exactly right! A few days ago, I climbed up and noticed a pancake sensor was all crusted over. It’s clean and resets itself without tripping the overload now.