Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: The Seven Bays Window Cleaning Company on October 26, 2009, 01:42:24 pm
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Is it possible to run two reels off one pump?
Would there be a significant pressure drop?
I use a 100psi pump at the off one reel.
But Dale ( who hates Tea) is helping me out one day a week, and figure it would make things easier if we had the two reels working.
At the mo, I'm using the main van tank, and Dale ( who hates Tea) brings his trolley.
Any advise would be appreciated - Thanks :)
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depends on the lpm not the psi. two of our vans have spliters on the pumps to operate two people. works fine. the pumps on our vans are 5.2lpm
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Yes you will loose presssure, but will still be enough for 2 reels, and when one turns off the other pole will speed up.
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Has he tried coffee? :P
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he does like coffee ;D ;D ;D
dale
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I always think that eventually you will have to replace things so why not just double up on equipment !!!!
I have two complete set ups so if one breaks down then we can still do some work until i can replace equipment that has gone kerput.
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But replace what? Make a seperate stup for 1 day a week? no thanks ill stick a t peice after the pump.
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I would use a Y piece. Lol
We do this regular, run 2 poles from 1 pump.
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You've got it stop on, for the sake of an extra £100 pump and just some scraps of hose, you're better off with 2 independant systems.
I've been out with someone using a varistream and 2 hose reels and I was very disappointed after all the rave reviews I've read.
I always think that eventually you will have to replace things so why not just double up on equipment !!!!
I have two complete set ups so if one breaks down then we can still do some work until i can replace equipment that has gone kerput.
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For nearly 4 years I have run a pump for each reel, I had 2 x 60psi flowjet pumps,No electronic controller as the flow rate was spot on,2 ltrs a minute.
But 3 weeks ago one of my pumps gave up on me,I limped along for 2 weeks with my one pump (60psi) running 2 x 100mtr of microbore.Flowrate just under 2 ltrs a min.
I have put on the new 100psi Flowjet triple chamber pump from cleaning spot. Wow my 60psi pumps had a flow rate of over 6 ltrs a min.The new Flowjet 5.3 ltrs a min. Tripe, its stonking, if I run it through one reel of 100 mtr microbore hose it useing over 4 ltrs a min. Too much water used,So I have rigged it up to run both 100mtr reels and it is still pumping out at somewhere between 2.5 to 3 ltrs a min when both hoses are on.
So this new pump can easily run 2 reels.We went through 700ltrs of water in 5 hours this morning. Time to invest in an eletronic controller.But the pump costs only £83.94 incl VAT or £166.75 incl vat if you buy it with a digital controller.
Superb pump plus its a lot quiter then my old ones.
Neil
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Or instead of electronic controller, put T peice after pump, and connect the one side of it back to the tank with a tap, and the other to the reel, then you can vary the flow to your pole and the rest goes back into your tank ;)
Cheap as chips.
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Or instead of electronic controller, put T peice after pump, and connect the one side of it back to the tank with a tap, and the other to the reel, then you can vary the flow to your pole and the rest goes back into your tank ;)
Cheap as chips.
is it really worth the aggro for the price of a controller?
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T peice and a tap? aggro??
More aggro with a controller mon
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T peice and a tap? aggro??
More aggro with a controller mon
having a controller is easy once its fitted. sounds like aggro with a tap and pipe going back to the tank
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Yeh aggro for monkeys who havent got a clue like you.
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Actually lol.
:D
I have just invested in a Eco-flo a Flojet triplex. but the idea above with the t piece sounds very smart and in my opinion simple. Saves £100. Which sometimes people dont have or dont wanna spend. And sometimes why spend when its not needed.
Although I cant talk, I want to have the bigger better things :o
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Yeh aggro for monkeys who havent got a clue like you.
says the guy who sold his van and now works out of a people carrier ;D
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Wife and me run 1x100psi Shurflo Pump, one hozelock half inch splitter and 2x100m microbore. Works great, two years now.
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Yeh aggro for monkeys who havent got a clue like you.
says the guy who sold his van and now works out of a people carrier ;D
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I always think that eventually you will have to replace things so why not just double up on equipment !!!!
I have two complete set ups so if one breaks down then we can still do some work until i can replace equipment that has gone kerput.
This is spot on, I got a 2 man set up, pump went early into a day and I would of lost due to not working the rest of the day would of paid for 2 pumps, carry on with pump 2 while new one on way and will now use pump 2 till resin is dead on it and then over to pump one on new resin .
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Yeh aggro for monkeys who havent got a clue like you.
I was thinking the same thing ;D