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Hi GMV. You are probably going to get lucky with the Output Card, but Speed Controllers are easy to change (take lots of pictures of wiring before you start). If your worried though you can call your Wash World distributor and have them change the Speed Controller.

2Biz I love your attention to detail. I have never seen flow meters used to allow an operator to see how much change they are making as they adjust the needle valves. This is a wonderful way to make that easy.

The cut lines appear to be the lines out to the bays. They typically would send air or product out to each Bay through some sort of a trough (Usually found in an attic or on the roof. At a point before they drop down into the bay they typically have a tee where the product and air are mixed...

It's an Impact Hit Retry.

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...

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?

It's possible using a Unitec POS4000V2. The POS talks to both the WS2 and Wayne pumps.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...