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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: jonny thompson on September 16, 2017, 12:35:01 pm

Title: Pump pressure
Post by: jonny thompson on September 16, 2017, 12:35:01 pm
Hi whenever my tank of water is getting near the bottom my flow rate drops quite a lot, any ideas why?
Title: Re: Pump pressure
Post by: CleanClear on September 16, 2017, 02:40:00 pm
Possibly your pump is mounted a bit high and uses most of its power sucking water out your tank as the level drops ?
Title: Re: Pump pressure
Post by: jonny thompson on September 16, 2017, 06:12:29 pm
That's what I thought, can't think of any other reason
Title: Re: Pump pressure
Post by: jonny thompson on September 16, 2017, 06:17:52 pm
That's what I thought, can't think of any other reason, does it harm the pumps if I'm having to run them at say 70-90 for an hour at the end of the day
Title: Re: Pump pressure
Post by: Susan Dean (1stclean) on September 16, 2017, 06:30:01 pm
That's what I thought, can't think of any other reason, does it harm the pumps if I'm having to run them at say 70-90 for an hour at the end of the day

we run ours at 100  every day so don't worrie about it
Title: Re: Pump pressure
Post by: CleanClear on September 16, 2017, 06:54:18 pm
It wouldn't harm them, you'll just use a bit more battery power i suppose. Can you not just lower the pump a bit ?
Title: Re: Pump pressure
Post by: jonny thompson on September 16, 2017, 07:39:38 pm
Doesn't it make a right racket running it on full , I keep thinking it's going to explode when I turn it up that much😀
Title: Re: Pump pressure
Post by: martinw on September 16, 2017, 07:59:56 pm
You might be getting air bubbles in pump forcing you to run pump on higher settings and creating noise you mention.
Title: Re: Pump pressure
Post by: duncan h on September 16, 2017, 08:09:11 pm
I get the same problem. My pump is fitted low down. I think is just more of a strain. I have a  350 ltr tank. I bet the 650 tanks don't suffer as much.
Also if I let it get low it draws in takes ages to kick in again, once full
Title: Re: Pump pressure
Post by: slap bash on September 17, 2017, 05:13:19 pm
Hi whenever my tank of water is getting near the bottom my flow rate drops quite a lot, any ideas why?

ITS QUITE EASY TO SOLVE. FILL THE TANK UP.
Title: Re: Pump pressure
Post by: robert mitchell on September 17, 2017, 10:39:54 pm
Hi whenever my tank of water is getting near the bottom my flow rate drops quite a lot, any ideas why?

ITS QUITE EASY TO SOLVE. FILL THE TANK UP.

fill it up from where?

most people need the tank to last all day ::)roll