Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Craig - CW Window Cleaning on December 19, 2011, 07:51:36 am
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I was wondering would linking up two vacs make for a faster drying time?
i have a steempro and a wet and dry vac which has 3 vac motors.
would it make any difference.
i have been wondering where to get a "y" piece tube to join them both up.
not saying i would use them all the time but just the odd job.
craig
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I'm pretty sure HM sell 'Y' pieces.
Did you clean carpets at a place called 'The Barn" near Towednack by any chance?
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This is what happens when you have too much spare time Colin.......
You start to think :o
;D ;D
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no i havent colin? but i am intriqued as to why?
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This is what happens when you have too much spare time Colin.......
You start to think :o
;D ;D
It's Craig wanting a 'Y' piece.... Not me mate.... :)
Craig, I'm just using a process of elimination and wouldn't have thought for a minute it would be a proper carpet cleaner. You see, my brother in law moved into "The Barn" and said the carpets were wet for 3 days and they stunk. I just want to find the carpet cleaner/DIY enthusiast that cleaned them, to thank them as my brother-in-law's a pr**k..... ;D
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sorry Colin
it was early morning.........
Still stand by the statement though ;D ;D
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Not sure how a Y tube would work , which machine would tale the water?
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i guess both machines would take water!
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All the vacs would have to have the same performance or one would overpower the other.
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This has been done successfully ............there was a regular poster on here a couple of years ago ran two machines one was a Ninja can't remember the other. He ran them from a little Diahatsu which was big enough to cope and seemed to do very well with the set up.
Solutions sell a small machine which is designed for this purpose for about £600 or so.
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The Solutions unit runs in series.
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Keep things simple. Just have one good machine rather than f**k about experimenting
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:)
The forum's Search function should locate some of my old posts and those of Nigel_W for stuff about ninjas in parallel or with booster vacs
Trevor I'm surprised at your comment about the vac balance - Nigel's setup certainly wasn't, and mine was a pair of metal-horned (1400W?) motors in one machine and plastic (1200W?) in the other machine. The one with the better motors just filled up a little quicker!
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Keep things simple. Just have one good machine rather than f**k about experimenting
;D ;D ;D
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Pretty sure Ashbys used to sell a kit for pairing Ninjas.
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To try it out straight away ... (in parallel )
connect one porty ( strongest one ) to the open waste gate of the other ...
waste water in first machine only .
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To try it out straight away ... (in parallel )
connect one porty ( strongest one ) to the open waste gate of the other ...
waste water in first machine only .
And then trip the custys electrics ::)
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Why would it trip the electrics?
Whenever a custy makes you a cup of tea while you are working its the same as using another porty in terms of power usage.
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I have this setup in my van with a raptor and prochem commanche joined together with a Y piece.
Both have 2x3 stage vacs (Commanche has been upgraded from 2x2 stage).
Great power and with the heat from the raptor I find it a great setup.
Commanche always fills up slightly before the raptor probably because the raptor is the taller machine and thus is slightly further away from the y piece than the commanche.
I also use the raptors pump and usually keep it between 200 - 300 psi.
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I have this setup in my van with a raptor and prochem commanche joined together with a Y piece.
Both have 2x3 stage vacs (Commanche has been upgraded from 2x2 stage).
Great power and with the heat from the raptor I find it a great setup.
Commanche always fills up slightly before the raptor probably because the raptor is the taller machine and thus is slightly further away from the y piece than the commanche.
I also use the raptors pump and usually keep it between 200 - 300 psi.
sounds good ;D four vacs and heat ... what every porty should have
would you seek out two house circuits for all that ?
good you upgraded the 2 stages otherwise total lift would be that of the weakest motor ... 95 instead of 140
so you should have 140" lift and 400 cfm ...
perhaps using 2" off the Y would be beneficial if you don't already ... or even two lengths of 2" to the door and then the Y
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It all sounds hard work or am I missing something ::) ???
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I have this setup in my van with a raptor and prochem commanche joined together with a Y piece.
Both have 2x3 stage vacs (Commanche has been upgraded from 2x2 stage).
Great power and with the heat from the raptor I find it a great setup.
Commanche always fills up slightly before the raptor probably because the raptor is the taller machine and thus is slightly further away from the y piece than the commanche.
I also use the raptors pump and usually keep it between 200 - 300 psi.
You could probably buy a second hand truckmount (a real one) for less the cost of them two machines.
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If you linked a less powerful single vac 2 stage machine to the exhust of a more powerful twin vac 3 stage ninja what would this do
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If you linked a less powerful single vac 2 stage machine to the exhust of a more powerful twin vac 3 stage ninja what would this do
good question :/ should be no different than adding an additional series three stage to a twin three stage in that you still get the combined total ...
although it may affect CFM
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This thread got me wondering...............
Today I used a portable machine with a single three stage vac ( as the second vac died on me ) and a 150psi pump. I was dreading the outcome as I'd been in this position on more than one occasion with a Ninja which was useless on a single vac.
I was amazed and delighted to achieve an excellent result on all carpets throughout the house better than the past couple of years using a Bane which had been altered to increase both psi and airflow and before the Bane a twin vac 400psi Ninja.
I was using a 5 year old Cheyenne with two inch return hose, 150 psi pump, hot tap water, presprayed with ph 10 and water only in the tank ( our water is acidic }
Got me wondering if many are becoming unnecessarily " heavy handed " when cleaning resulting in overwetting due to too much pressure and over heavy application of presprays.
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If I get bored today I think I will hook together my 2 x PowRFlite PFX1350s and see how I go.
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Good luck moving the Wonderwand ;D
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actually I am going to use a ChemDry wand lying in the workshop as it has 2 male connectors for mixing A&B
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You only need to use the one pump and heater.
The second machine just use the vac' motors.