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    Wash world HV code 8

    It's an Impact Hit Retry.
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    Stacking Paid Washes at Pay Station

    Since I'm not familiar with how Touch4Wash communicates with the ACW's Controller, I can't really help. I know the Crypto Pay has a small board that attaches to the Controller to tell it that a card was accepted that should allow the Controller to stack the wash. The Touch4Wash would need to do...
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    Stacking Paid Washes at Pay Station

    You can turn the stacking off on an ACW. Using the four buttons on the controller mounted to the door you can access the menu and disable stacking. Does it only happen to customers using the Crypto Pay Reader?
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    Unitec wash select 2 interface

    It's possible using a Unitec POS4000V2. The POS talks to both the WS2 and Wayne pumps.
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    New touchless automatic Chinese wash

    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.
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    IBA Average Daily Cars Washed

    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.
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    New touchless automatic Chinese wash

    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...
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    Hydrospray Rain Maker upgrades

    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...
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    Hydrospray Rain Maker upgrades

    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...
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    1ph to 3ph with VFDs

    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...
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    Water quality

    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...
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    LOOKING FOR SOAPS

    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...
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    Rehabbing self serve wash, need help ID’ing equipment

    Since there's no chemical injector, it's probably the rinse tank.
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    conversion of single spray arch to double spray arch manifold

    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...
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    First time buyer

    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...
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