legbuh
Silver Member
I've also sent this to Fimco for help but I thought I would ask here too.
I have a 30 gallon pull behind sprayer I purchased at TSC. It has one of the 12v Gold Series pumps on it.
The issue I'm having is the pump seems to be losing pressure after a few minutes of spraying.
It starts out great with good pressure but after a few minutes it goes down to a trickle. I can shut off the pump and turn it back on and get good pressure for a little longer, but soon again (a minute or so) it goes down to a trickle.
I am using Amine (24d) mixed per instructions.
Here's what's odd. When I'm done I flush the system with clean water (1/2 tank) then I fill the tank 1/2 full again and add nutra-sol and pump that through. Then after that one more 1/2 tank of clean water.
I do not clean the strainer before flushing either, just to make sure that's not the problem.
What's odd is each of these steps takes 10 minutes or more, and the pump never loses pressure.
The only thing I can think of is when I'm spraying 24d:
1. I'm moving (ie, pulling the sprayer)
2. I'm using 24d.
So could it be the movement causing the pump to lose pressure or the 24d itself doing something to the unit causing it to lose pressure? I always test it out with plain water before spraying and it seems to spray just fine. Even when I'm pulling it around. It just seems like the 24d is doing something to the diaphram/rubber seals making it lose pressure.
I have a 30 gallon pull behind sprayer I purchased at TSC. It has one of the 12v Gold Series pumps on it.
The issue I'm having is the pump seems to be losing pressure after a few minutes of spraying.
It starts out great with good pressure but after a few minutes it goes down to a trickle. I can shut off the pump and turn it back on and get good pressure for a little longer, but soon again (a minute or so) it goes down to a trickle.
I am using Amine (24d) mixed per instructions.
Here's what's odd. When I'm done I flush the system with clean water (1/2 tank) then I fill the tank 1/2 full again and add nutra-sol and pump that through. Then after that one more 1/2 tank of clean water.
I do not clean the strainer before flushing either, just to make sure that's not the problem.
What's odd is each of these steps takes 10 minutes or more, and the pump never loses pressure.
The only thing I can think of is when I'm spraying 24d:
1. I'm moving (ie, pulling the sprayer)
2. I'm using 24d.
So could it be the movement causing the pump to lose pressure or the 24d itself doing something to the unit causing it to lose pressure? I always test it out with plain water before spraying and it seems to spray just fine. Even when I'm pulling it around. It just seems like the 24d is doing something to the diaphram/rubber seals making it lose pressure.