Has this ever happened to you?

[BLewis]

While wrapping up a 4 hour job tonight at 6:00 pm we had pulled all hose from the house and as I was starting to go back in to collect turned to notice a HUGE cloud of steam coming from all around the truck. I went to truck to see if I could see water spraying anywhere and did not, I turned the truck to idle and steam stopped. Went ahead and collected while tech put stuff up. On the way to the shop I stopped at a vacant lot and checked oil, antifreeze, etc and saw no apparent problems, so I started it up and cranked her up to try to duplicate the steam issue and let it run for 15 minutes or so and everything appeared to be fine. I took off all the side panels while running to see if any hoses seem to have a split in them and found nothing.

Any ideas?

 

[Shane T]

Might have been pulling water through the blower. The water in the hot blower will blow steam out the exhaust.

 

[Becker]

Was it coming fro the blower?
Was it a cold day?
Maybe your tank was getting full and or a bypass was dumping off hot water.

I blew a fog from the blower today. Cool, high humility, machine temps high.


What kinda machine?

 

[rwcarpet]

Been there, done that a few times. Even when tank wasn't full, the vac would pull moisture through the blower when weather conditions were just right. It's embarassing. I also get that on really cold mornings after the TM sat in a nice warm garage and collected condensation in the blowerand HX'ers.

 

[BLewis]

Ok, now that makes perfect sense! Thanks
What I forgot to mention was when I fired up TM to test it immediately shut down because it was full, so I drained some water then started it back up for the 15 min run with no problems . Now come to think of it I was on a nose downgrade so that explains it!

 

[Becker]

Sign of relief ehhh

 

[BLewis]

You got it!

 

[AshleyMckendree]

I wondered what that giant plume of steam was coming from Lexington