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Our prices are about the same as others here. In fact we raised them about 15% just by setting the time back to 1 minute rather than 1:10.

Its been a while since I posted so thought I'd give an update. In case some of you don't remember, i bought this carwash in February and got some valuable advice from this site and some other car wash owners. It is in a small Southeast Kansas town (Coffeyville, KS). Things are going well...

Yeah, I did read before I posted. But still my ratio is almost 2x yours. Just wanted to make sure I'm not missing something. I did measure the hydrominder ratio and its very close to 90:1 like it should be with the undiluted soap. So why do they tell us to add 10 gallons of water if th...

Sorry to re-hash this, but I just want to see if my numbers here make sense. Got the hydrominder setup, so no need to mix manually. That's nice to have out of the way.. Now, we put in a yellow tip to start as per the KR site recommendations. But forgot to dilute with 10 gallons of water...

That's great info. Newbie question.. How do you get the water to zero grains hardness, and what does that actually mean? We use softeners but I've not tested the water other than with my electronic hardness meter. And I don't remember what it said.

rph, we are not using dema injectors, just an adjustable metering valve. It is set to about 6 gph. We can't use injectors yet because we have the gravity or zero pressure tanks on the suction side (with float valves, etc), we don't have any pressure at the suction. Earl, your calculations...

This carwash has an older setup, it has large mixing tanks where the previous owner mixed powder. He just added 1 quart of his powder to about 20 gallons of water in his soap tanks. And his adjustable soap meters are set to about 6 GPH. I think our CAT pumps output a little less than 4gpm...

Well we are still working on replacing the bay signage and coin box decals. Replaced all the guns and wands and just general cleanup. Seems to have helped a lot. Also added a vac to our vac island. Now we have 2 vacs total. People have commented they are glad to have a second vac. I made a...

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004XS148C/ref=biss_dp_t_asn Will this one work? Is it much cheaper than a new switch, and easier to connect as you said..

Yeah I think you're right. I meant to say dual throw, not dual pole.

Is Futura the brand name? What we have is just 2 solenoids (look like washing machine solenoids) and one is hot and one is cold. They both just dump independently through the float valve depending on which solenoid is active. (wash or rinse). Someone suggested a dole type setup, which would...

2Biz, Thanks for the diagram. This will not work in our system because we only have 1 cold water solenoid, it has to be shared for HP wax and rinse cold water. When we activate the cold water solenoid & wax solenoid, it back feeds into the 2nd stack and activates wax for rinse cycle as well...

Mep001, I'm confused now as to who is giving advice to who. My system is not this way. (If you are talking to me that is) Mine has a suction tank, but not gravity fed and it has both hot and cold water solenoids that feed the tank. I have no city water pressure on the suction side on any...

The other nice thing about this type of system is that you don't have a tank full of cold water. The customer gets hot water faster when using wash cycle. Also you don't lose heat as hot water dumps into the tank. It just seems like a more efficient setup. . I hope to convert to Randy's type of...

So we are trying to do the same thing. We have a 2 stack rotary switch and I think it would be possible to do with a 3 stack and no relay. We tried a relay but it I only had 1 output on my relay because that's all the local electric shop had, so it was back feeding into the wax solenoid and...