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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Sapphire Window Cleaning on July 14, 2009, 05:18:16 pm

Title: Backpacks
Post by: Sapphire Window Cleaning on July 14, 2009, 05:18:16 pm: Has anyone bought a Window cleaning warehouse backpack?
How good are they and how long does the battery last on a full charge?
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: Sapphire Window Cleaning on July 14, 2009, 05:54:08 pm: I take it noone has bought one of these backpacks.
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: KINGAKNAA on July 14, 2009, 07:14:52 pm: I use a WCW backpack everyday. very easy to use and much less complicated than the shurflo backpack.

I picked up a spare battery too from a shop that sells motability scooters (£20) I put mine on charge every night and is fully charged by morning, lasts all day no prob, sure they stated somewhere the charge lasts about 10 hours.

Have personally used it up to 35ft with no loss of flow.

I can do maximum 3, 2 bed houses on 1 full to the brim tank.

Hope that has helped mate. Any other questions...ask away. ;)
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: prestigeclean on July 14, 2009, 07:48:09 pm: i,ve got 2 of them and its a good easy to use backpack , not as powerful as a varistream/ microbore set up regards alan
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: Blue Frog Systems on July 14, 2009, 08:02:02 pm: I've got one too and do all my work from the backpack. 30ft high easy and will probably go higher.

I charge mine each night and still going strong throughout the day. I forgot to charge it one night and it did me two days without charging. Depends on how much you use it through the day I suppose.

One thing I would say about them is carry a spare fuse with you. Mine went on a job and screwed my day up. I now carry spares and a screwdriver just incase.

Great backpack at a great price. Does the job!
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: jouk45 on July 14, 2009, 08:33:14 pm: One thing I would say about them is carry a spare fuse with you. Mine went on a job and screwed my day up

we dont get problems like that with shurfo ;D here we go war of the backpacks :P
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: tacky on July 14, 2009, 08:50:27 pm: i find mine better than my shurflo . had no probs with wcw backpack .ps were is the fuse on wcw backpack .n what kind is it .just in case
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: jouk45 on July 14, 2009, 08:52:37 pm: tacky where is your switch situated, did you have to bend to switch the controls
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: tacky on July 14, 2009, 09:16:52 pm: switch is near the bottom next to charger input .
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: Sapphire Window Cleaning on July 14, 2009, 09:39:15 pm: can you wear it like a rucksack or is it just the one strap that goes ove the shoulder
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: Sapphire Window Cleaning on July 14, 2009, 10:13:50 pm: I've just ordered the WCW backpack with the unger hi-flo 17ft pole.
How long will I need to charge it for before I can use it.
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: tacky on July 14, 2009, 10:15:56 pm: i think mine was a shoulder strap .but i took it off bout a year ago .to much weight on shoulder ,it has a moulded in handle .great for picking up. but if u buy one look for small trolley .for long distances
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: jouk45 on July 14, 2009, 10:34:09 pm: Quote from: mattinlester on July 14, 2009, 09:39:15 pm
can you wear it like a rucksack or is it just the one strap that goes ove the shoulder

if you have got a compact round then use a trolley, i use mine constantly everyday, but never wear it on my back, the day of the backpack is comming to an end ;D i have a new idea that i have been working on, big claim i know, but the backpack has to go,
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: Sapphire Window Cleaning on July 14, 2009, 10:57:27 pm: Jouk have you applied for patent of your new idea ;D
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: jouk45 on July 14, 2009, 11:05:40 pm: no not yet, but this is the best one ever ;D
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: tacky on July 15, 2009, 08:34:17 pm: is their a fuse in the wcw backpack
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: Sapphire Window Cleaning on July 17, 2009, 02:03:19 am: Tacky yes there is.
I received my WCW packpack this morning, what a piece of kit. I love it (my shoulders and back doesn't) ;D
No messing around with hoses. just throw it on your back and away you go.
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: Blue Frog Systems on July 17, 2009, 07:31:52 am: Fuse is in the bottom along with the battery and pump. Its sausage shaped. Open it up and you'll see. Can't remember what amp it was (I've been trying to get up since 6 this morning and it just hasn't happened - I'm so tired)
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: tomy jackson on July 17, 2009, 07:44:05 am: iv got one ,put new swich on it a togel one cut th end down by harf and use my fute to turn on and of i ues mine for bad ackses ,my lad has one end iv put a by pass on that one
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: tacky on July 17, 2009, 08:56:37 pm: thanks window wipers .and all
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: Sapphire Window Cleaning on July 18, 2009, 11:17:51 am: Any of you guys turn the packback on and off between windows or just turn the tap off on the hose so the pressure switch kicks in.
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: Fieldsy on July 18, 2009, 11:30:53 am: yh we do that most times Matt when we forget to turn it off.........lol
Great piece of kit, loving its use.
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: Sapphire Window Cleaning on July 18, 2009, 11:38:37 am: How are you Fieldsy?
Haven't seen on here for a week or two.
I turn it on the backpack between jobs, unless they are very close, but just turn the tap on and off lol
Title: Re: Backpacks
Post by: Fieldsy on July 18, 2009, 11:59:28 am: Yes I'm fine matt thanks, been really busy and unfortunately my wife has been in for an op, so been getting home, then to hospital and then sorting kids out..........lol a womans work is never done..........lol