One of my customers has a three year old Rapid Wash with the double wash arms. There is a breakaway magnetic prox switch on each arm. Belanger used to use a simple mechanical switch for this, and from talking to techs down here, it worked fine. When they switched to this prox configuration they must have started having issues with them. I say this because one of their factory service centers here simply bypassed this system and wired an impluse to the plc direct, so that a false loss of signal would not shut down the unit. They are about three hours away and probably thought it easier to bypass it than fix it. This sort of leaves the operator at possible customer damage, since if something hits it now, it will just merrily keep on washing. So my question is what do you think of removing the prox setup and putting a simple mechanical switch back on?