Laserwash G5 S-Series Car Wash
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- This is a PDQ Laserwash G5 S-Series car wash, installed with the equipment off in a seperate equipment room at the back of the bay, instead of under a fiberglass enclosure inside the bay. The end result is a much less cluttered wash bay with a more user-friendly appearance, and less chance of someone bashing the pump cabinet!
Here, the clear coat protectant smells like Orange Dreamsicle. This is a lot nicer than the first machine I used, where the clear coat protectant had an offensive chemical odor. Unfortunately, this kept making me want a milkshake whenever I got in or near my car for weeks!
In case you were wondering, the boinky sound is a 5/8 wavelength dualband vhf/uhf antenna just touching the bottom of the L-arm. I don't usually take it off the roof when using this type of machine...
Some installations do have the equipment room, others don't. My guess is that the equipment room is often if not always used in places where freezing temperatures occur regularly, so it can be heated to prevent freeze damage to pumps, tanks and chemicals. This is in South Florida, where the most we get is a one night cold snap that reaches 30 degrees F.
Yes, that's why they all have doors! If they didn't have doors, the equipment would be damaged due to freezing.
Oh, it always does that, even if you pull out the moment the wash shuts down. It pretty much just keeps feeping until the virtual treadle can reset (bay completely empty).
This always makes me wonder why the Laserwash 4000 has to have the virtual treadle mounted offboard. It has ultrasonics on the T-shaped bars hanging down on both sides which can perform the same exact function! Silly PDQ.
At best, it'd be able to detect that and continue normally. At worst, the L-arm would hit your vehicle. This is why it's usually covered in a thick foam rubber 'pool noodle'.
The machine is able to detect a jammed or struck L-arm, so it can stop, measure again, and retry. I think if all else fails, it just falls back to assuming the vehicle size is the maximum bay dimension, kind of like the Ryko US2001 Overhead Epic Fail I took a video of.
Brilliant design there..?!
Laserwash machines do not have particularly smart door controls. I've never run into this because it never gets cold enough here to require bay doors or heated bays.
Did a good job
Those external equpment rooms you mention are almost always in uk carwashes. suprised american doesn't do the same.
@ccrimsonfox Mobil. Also, that is one derpy design if it requires a service call! Can the reset be done with the IR remote, or was that a feature specific to just the old Laserwash 4000?
If it can be done from the IR remote, ask the tech nicely if you can learn the codes from it into a Logitech Harmony or similar "learning" remote :)
Of course, the best thing would have been for the design to have a home position sensor so it can self-reset...
my g5s sucks in the winter no one is in there the doors open themselfs it is snowing outside and when someone dose in there the wash sits and dose nothin the dryers starts some times it stops on pre soak and you have to leve and I cant wait til it is ded and som
the laserwash has little sencers to know when your car has left the wash so the door will not close on you car
etime pdq will admit thare carwashes sucks and will give my bro a refund the carwash isent mine its my bros