I’ve been doing some research on unloaders and how not to burn up a pump. For you guys who need to use a tank to collect the extra water is there anyway you can just pump it onto the concrete if you have unlimited water access?
The tank we plumb our unloaders into is the same tank we draw our water from. The water is just recycled through to keep the pump from burning up.
We need the tank when running 5.5gpm machines and up, because we need more flow than a house spigot can provide. If we dumped the bypass on the ground it would just empty our tank.
Well it wouldn’t empty the tank as long as you have water supply into the tank with a Hudson to stop the over flow. But Jake has a point, why would you want to dump the water on the concrete when you can instead recycle and reuse the water back into the tank ?
Correct me if I’m wrong or if I’m misunderstanding something, but if you plumb the unloader to the ground instead of the buffer tank won’t the water supply from the spigot just refill the buffer tank and the Hudson float (if you have one) will cut the water supply off until needed again?
Only if you have one of those. I fill up what I need at the house and use it all, keeping an eye on the tank as needed.
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I’m talking about if I’m using a hose pipe straight from the house I can just have my unloaders hose Flow on the concrete since I don’t need to keep a tank full.
It would make SUCH a mess. The unloader is going to dump it all through a pretty small hose. Basically like taking your wand off the end of your pressure hose
Theoretically, if your machine is ‘fully plumbed’, you could just have the bypass water dump on the ground when you are off the trigger. However by the time professionals get to that level they usually get a buffer tank.
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My unloader hose could easily reach second-story peaks lol. In fact, when I set up my tank the first time I didn’t understand that the unloader is diverting the entire flow, and I misunderstood something that one of the regulars posted. I thought I could just coil some bypass hose in the bottom of my tank…that very first time it went into bypass, the hose was flipping around so violently I thought it might destroy the tank lol
I don’t have a tank and don’t have the money or setup for a tank right now and I was just wondering how it would effect everything I just saw that people use them so it doesn’t blow up there pump and since I don’t have a tank I was wondering if I could have one even if I’m just running a hose pipe from the house so my pump doesn’t get super hot and blow up.
I understand, my dude. I wish it worked that way, but even with a 4gpm machine that’s a lot of water dumping out somewhere. A huge mess and a huge waste.
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What size machine are you running? Direct drive, gear driven, or belt driven? A cheap tank off craigslist or FB market place would work. Completing 1 driveway would also pay for this $78 35 gallon tank.
