If I want to be able to run 2-4gpm guns off of a single 8 gpm pump do I need to do anything other than replace the unloader with a dual gun unloader? The skid will have hot water as well. I read something about needing a regulator. Is the dual gun unloader acting as the regulator?
I can’t tell you which unloader, but the only thing I’ve seen so far is adding a tee with 1 fem q/c and 1 male q/c. The female obviously would connect to the male installed on the unloader. Add tee when using 2 guns. I’m uncertain how the unloader would need to be calibrated fkr 2 guns.
I can’t think of anything that would be more annoying than to have my gpm and psi constantly changing as the other person uses their gun. Without a regulator on each line after the tee, that’s what you’d get.
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I saw on a thread awhile back the mention of a “regulating unloader”. That would do the trick
Jake nailed it. The problem with a tee is if one person lets off the trigger the other gpm and pressure will go to the other person which could cause damage depending on what they’re cleaning. A two gun unloader prevents that from happening.
Running two 4gpm guns off of an 8 gpm pump is the equivalent of slamming your hand repeatedly in a car door so you can eat watermelon one handed. Neither scenario makes any sense.
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I spoke to Ron at BCE earlier and he said that when running 2 guns, that it is seamless and that no surge/reduction in pressure or volume is detected by the other user. Hopefully he is right as this is the direction I am likely going.
I actually had the same conversation earlier with someone. He’s getting an 8 gpm and wondered if he should get the two gun setup so he’d have two guns going. I said he’d be better off using the 8 gpm as an 8 gpm and keeping his current 4 gpm for a 2nd person. If you’re buying an 8 gpm you might as well use it as an 8 and not a 4. Although, it can make sense. Look at fleet washing. They usually have to keep water usage down because a lot of times they haul their own water. It’s cheaper to buy one larger machine and share it rather than buying to separate machines. At least when it comes to hot water due to the additional cost of the burner.
If you cut watermelon slices the way they’re suppose to be cut you need both hands to eat it.
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I just pulled the pdf file for a dual gun setup, and there was nothing that would have told me the unloader had 2 completely separate outlets. .just the tee. Myself, id never consider having 1.
Id think you’d have to be actively using 2 guns, as i understood it, if you use undersized nozzle, you can damage pump.
I can see the appeal of hitting 2 birds with 1 stone, but the idea of of having 1 machine down and 2 people scratching there bum isn’t appealing to me, from a business point of view anyway. Independent machines for me.
Pressure compensating unloader holds line pressure and is designed for use with dual gun/weeping nozzle for single pump. I need a pressure compensating unloader/pressure regulating valve to solve an issue I’m running into. I’m running dual branches from the pump outlet (upstreaming & down streaming) and I need to bypass back to inlet (closed loop). Anyone got any pointers?
Why do you need that set up?
