Recent content by JimmyJaffa

It all depends on what your sign says. What did the Judge find wrong with your sign?

At washes now built, they use 80+ relays. What a difference in operating philosophy. Both clean cars.

The impellers were dynamically balanced at the machine shop. Had to call around to find one that could do it. What a difference it made.

I do not know how you would balance the impeller yourself, but we have sand blasted and rebalanced at a machine shop many impellers after they started to vibrate. Several motor shafts were fractured before we realized they were out of balance. The choice of paint was not a concern, balancing was.

You might want to see if you can eliminated the PLC and use 2 or 3 functions from your controller. Car wash manufactures design their equipment to work in "all" environments. We have in the past been successful in deleting them for our wash. So the question is whats in you controller?

I would recommend you speak with Dan Reese with Laguna in Portland, OR. He changed out our Mac 4000. In order to get the wrap to get the second pass across the back you need proper sequencing. ICS claims they have the programing, but I have not seen it.

We upgraded a few years ago from the MacNeil Omron PLC 4000 to Kesseltronics r.TC (this is what we bought from MacNeil) a must because the way MacNeil controls their wraps. It is not cheap, but well worth the money. I would recommend that you install a sonar to detect open or closed pickup...

There is a difference between focusing, and variable focal length. A variable focal lense can be adjusted between 2.8 (wide angle) and 12 (telephoto). Most fixed focal length cameras are at 3.5, just a little longer that a wide angle. hope this helps

You will never be able to see "everything", but with a variable focal camera you can adjust it for maximum clarity. PTZ are only good when you have someone viewing live. We focused on wheels, (amazing how many people clip curbs), 2 on top, one in each direction. We only use spinning foam so...

We used 32 cameras at our washes. 16 for the tunnel and 16 for the site. 8 cameras at the entrance, and 8 in the wash area and exit. We used over 2000' of siamese cable.

Having cameras spaced out through the car wash shows when dumb dumb stepped on the brake. We have had them for a long time.

We use fiberglass doors with a fiberglass jamb.

You are absolutely right, we have been doing it wrong for so long, it is amazing. Of course with MacNeil equipment we do not get the litter of broken parts that you mentioned, maybe that is the difference. or is it the soap?

Earl is right, one employee is guide on, second does many things, and we have more than enough cameras to inspect each car thoroughly that is wash.

Yes we do not have a wrap retract, because we do not allow bike racks on the backs of vehicles (on top as well), tailgates of pickups tailgates have to be closed (no pickup bed extenders), pickup beds are measured with sonar. We check the backs of vehicles with a mirror (also if brakes are on)...