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What's your favorite replacement vacuum timer?
- Thread starter waright
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Earl Weiss
Well-known member
Paraplate.
Out of 30+ vacs that do not need fancier timers (Displays for combo vacs) 26 are paraplates. . The others are different because they came that way.
Out of 30+ vacs that do not need fancier timers (Displays for combo vacs) 26 are paraplates. . The others are different because they came that way.
I.B. Washincars
Car Washer Emeritus
I've liked the Paraplates until they replaced the 24120 with the 24200. They changed the way the wires are secured and often there is not enough room to slide another wire in the hole, especially if you are using #10 wire.
Earl Weiss
Well-known member
Very true. Have had to make a pigtail or two.
GoBuckeyes
Self-Serve and Automatics
We also used to like the Paraplate until they came out with the new version. The reason wasn't the wire connections, it was because there is NO way to disable the grace time feature. The fact that the company's customer service could care less about your concerns doesn't help either.
We have started using Infitec timers. Cheaper and just as reliable.
We have started using Infitec timers. Cheaper and just as reliable.
Fatboy769
Living the American Dream
GoBuckeyes, who exactly did you talk to in customer service that could care less about your concerns?
GoBuckeyes
Self-Serve and Automatics
Fatboy,
I couldn't tell you the name of the guy I talked to, it has been over a year or so. I believe I posted a thread about it, you'll have to do a search. All I can remember is that there aren't alot of people there and he had something to do with all carwash products.
I had called them to find out how to disable the grace time feature and to ask about the wiring of the timer. I was told the grace time cannot be disabled. As for the wiring, I had wasted alot of hours trying to troublshoot the new timers only to find out that they were not internally jumpered like the schematic indicated. When I brought that to his attention, I basically got a 'too bad' and our conversation went downhill from there.
From that point, I vowed not to buy another US Paraplate product. We had also been standardized on their weep trigger guns which we have used for over 15 years. I had always been happy with that product until about the same time. It seemed like we had a bunch of guns that failed right out of the box. We've since started switching to Sutner guns which are less expensive and have been problem free.
I couldn't tell you the name of the guy I talked to, it has been over a year or so. I believe I posted a thread about it, you'll have to do a search. All I can remember is that there aren't alot of people there and he had something to do with all carwash products.
I had called them to find out how to disable the grace time feature and to ask about the wiring of the timer. I was told the grace time cannot be disabled. As for the wiring, I had wasted alot of hours trying to troublshoot the new timers only to find out that they were not internally jumpered like the schematic indicated. When I brought that to his attention, I basically got a 'too bad' and our conversation went downhill from there.
From that point, I vowed not to buy another US Paraplate product. We had also been standardized on their weep trigger guns which we have used for over 15 years. I had always been happy with that product until about the same time. It seemed like we had a bunch of guns that failed right out of the box. We've since started switching to Sutner guns which are less expensive and have been problem free.
