| If you want to make money with a hot water pressure | | | | units to have 17.5 amps. |
| washer (sometimes referred to as a steam cleaner) in | | | | This way they could run a 5 hp craftsman vacuum |
| the contract cleaning sector, you are definitely going to | | | | cleaner shop vac, lights (2) 1 million candle watts on |
| need auxiliary power. Perhaps you want to run a | | | | tripods, and the burner too, although that maxed it out, |
| waste wash water reclaim device, or maybe you just | | | | so you couldn't start the vacuum motor because it |
| need some powerful lights to work at night. Either way | | | | would spike and trip the circuit breaker. Believe me you |
| you do need electricity to power up the burner to heat | | | | will get into situations depending on which type of |
| the water. Not long ago, I was discussing these issues | | | | cleaning you do, where you need all that and more, |
| with a mobile fleet cleaning operator, and he asked this | | | | and if you don't have it at the time, you'll be cursing |
| most excellent question; | | | | yourself for not putting in the capital investment to do |
| "I'm thinking about electric motors on the pumps and | | | | the job right - you'll probably wish you had more. |
| running them from one larger generator. That way I | | | | However, if you do upgrade to 17.5 amps or greater, |
| always have on board electric for whatever I need, | | | | you will need a larger motor on your skid unit. I believe |
| plus the ability to run flood lights as well for night work. | | | | some of the units we were building had 18 to 22 hp so |
| Generator exhaust systems are also designed quieter | | | | that we can do all that for industrial work. |
| - your thoughts?" | | | | So, you can get by without a generator and still have |
| Yes, we have done this before, and if you get a really | | | | amperage for reclaim device vacuum pumps, lights, |
| quiet large Honda generator, it's really nice to work with | | | | vacuums, etc. - even power tools on the job too. I |
| no noise. Onan, also makes a quiet diesel generator, | | | | suppose, the reality is you want to make sure that you |
| actually have one of these on my motor home 7.5, it's | | | | can do all the work that you set out to do, and you |
| a fantastic generator, just awesome in every regard | | | | want to be able to take all the jobs that pay the most |
| and you can hardly tell when it's running. I like the | | | | money. |
| Hondas better because they are less maintenance. | | | | If you are just going to do busy work and cleaning |
| If you really wanted to go eco-friendly you could use a | | | | auto dealership car lots, you may as well just get a |
| large generator, and that way you would always have | | | | small cold water unit, rent a couple C and W de-I |
| electricity for lights, running the pumps, and the burner. | | | | tanks, or put in RO system that your house, fill up 500 |
| And if you had LP to fire the burner, you would be | | | | gallon tanks, take the GPM down to 2.2 to 3.5 gallons |
| both clean and quiet. You should also know that most | | | | per minute and 1500 - 2200 PSI and go to town. |
| of the skid pressure washer units do have two 110 | | | | Please consider this. |
| outlet plugs on them, but, we always upgraded our | | | | |