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When I go to the Autocareforum I get drop down menu on the left side of the forum that say related items with car items. I click to cancel it but it comes back. Is this part of the forum on do I have a virus? I don't get it on other sites. JIMT

Buy an old one that is about to go out of business and fix is up. The cost of a new wash is too high and you will never get your money back.

What you have described is the spray nozzle is worn out or too big or there could be a leak in the high pressure hose. The first thing I would try is putting in a new spray nozzle on the trigger gun.

2Biz, That is a very attractive carwash. Is that you cleaning the bay? JIMT

Thanks for all of the information that everyone supplied. Brush Industries has a lot of information about readers and how they wear out or if they are made of some of the higher grade metals they don't wear out. I think our problem is probably worn out readers. Thanks again. JIMT

JIMT Can RDM Electronics in North Carolina. 800-282-5183 fix card readers? Is there anyone else that can repair card readers? Are there better cc readers that will work consistantly on Hamilton ACWs

We have 4 credit card readers on Hamilton ACWs and customers are having a lot of problems with "card unreadable". Is there a way to test the readers or to adjust them to get them to be better at reading the cards. We have one reader that you put the card in and slide it out and the rest are...

We have a floor heat that is leaking antifreeze but we can't find the leak. We tried an infrared camera with no luck. I remember seeing in the Forum someone had used a particular brand sealer that sealed his leaking floor heat. I cannot find it on the Forum now. If anyone knows about this...

We have a floor heat that is leaking antifreeze but we can't find the leak. We tried an infrared camera with no luck. I remember seeing in the Forum someone had used a particular brand sealer that sealed his leaking floor heat. I cannot find it on the Forum now. If anyone knows about this...

Do LED's send all of their light in the direction that you want? Metal halides bulbs send the light in all directions unless you have a perfect reflector which they don't. I am interested in which will do the best job. There a gas station near me that put in LED's on the ceiling of the canopy...

2Biz, The model number on my PLC is an Idec MicroSmart FC4A. The literature does not talk about Function Blocks. The salesman suggested that I use the one that you use. The FC4A cost a lot more but it uses the same software as 3 of our automatics and I had rewritten the programs that they use...

The thermostat tube in the slab at our car wash failed and we could not get the new thermostat bulb in. We just taped the bulb to the floor heat copper return pipe and wrapped some insulation around it. The temperature of the return pipe is close to the floor slab. JIMT

2Biz. I was told by Idec that both companies sell the same controller with there own name on it. It is a cheap way to do small projects. I have the next step up Idec controller that uses a different Idec software. It is almost unlimited on the number of inputs and outputs that can be set up...

doublj70, A friend of mine put a drawer that covered the entire bottom of the pickup that would pull out like a dresser drawer. He had it full of metal boxes with lids on them. When he needed a part or tool he would pull the drawer out and open a box. JIMT

Whale, We had similar problem and it was the base that the relay plugs into. We put a new base in and the problem was solved. JIMT

2Biz, Is your soap tank at a lower level than the rinse tank and the pumps? If they are, when you turn to soap the rinse water at the pump is trying to push the soap back to the soap tank. When nothing is running then the soap in the lines is trying to run down into the soap tank then it would...

Ric, We have put the dryers outside on 4 automatics. They are 10 to 15 feet from the building. We have Sunnys dryers which I believe put out a lot more air because the outlet is tangential to the housing. The air is moving in that direction inside the dryer housing so the air does not have...

Make sure the trigger gun trigger is pulled when you read the pressure. JIMT

Sparkey, I used 24v relays that stack on an aluminum extrusion. 10 of the relays take up about 3" of space. The relays switch 24v DC to the PLC. JIMT

superclean, This could be done with a PLC (programmable logic controller). It would require attaching wires from every function of every bay to the PLC. This would be many inputs so the PLC would have to have extra input boards. A program would have to be written with timers that add up the...