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The vacuum off of my old Mytee with simple 5.7 motors running in parallel show I'm getting 120 inches of lift. Motors are a year and a half old and near the end of the life cycle. This was the results I got through 35 feet of 1.5 inch hose.

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Willy P said:
The vacuum off of my old Mytee with simple 5.7 motors running in parallel show I'm getting 120 inches of lift. Motors are a year and a half old and near the end of the life cycle. This was the results I got through 35 feet of 1.5 inch hose.

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I get closer to 135 inches on my speedster. Probably around 180 CFM on 2 inch hose.
 
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Ah, but will it be able to run on 2, 15 amp circuits still?
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Hard to say, I don't have any experience with those vacuum motors. If it's a 1/3 HP, the amperage should drop to 2-2.5 amps. There may be enough room. On those high amperage machines, best to not turn on the vac motors until your vac hose is connected to the wand. The more restriction, the greater the amperage drop. My 13.8 amp 3-stages drop to 12 amps. My 1/2 HP pumptec draws 2.74 amps after starting. When using my big portable, I usually prespray with an inline sprayer and just leave the pump motor running while I set up the vac hose and wand. I am 12 amps on one cord and borderline 15 Amps on the other. If you start the pump motor while the vacuum is running, the sudden spike may trip the breaker.
 
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I didn't know you could get it with 400. Mine wont be ready till next Wednesday. Maybe I"ll call and have em add it. How much weight difference I wonder.
 
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Parallel will give you way better water recovery. Airflow beats suction hands down. I'm curious as to why the " one switch" mytee slight of hand and the 2 stage worrier were put up against the monsoon. I have both configurations and from my years of experience it's parallel that's the clear winner. A manifold isn't that expensive to add.It's stuff like that that really give companies a bad name. Integrity should come first.
 
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Willy P said:
Parallel will give you way better water recovery. Airflow beats suction hands down. I'm curious as to why the " one switch" mytee slight of hand and the 2 stage worrier were put up against the monsoon. I have both configurations and from my years of experience it's parallel that's the clear winner. A manifold isn't that expensive to add.It's stuff like that that really give companies a bad name. Integrity should come first.
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Once you get up 10 inches hg, which is equivalent to aprox 135 inches water lift, adding in airflow will give you drier carpets, especially with longer hose runs. A 13.8 amp 3 stage vac motor will give you 135 inches water lift. Adding a second one in series will give you a lot more lift but not any more CFM. Adding one in parallel won't increase the lift but will almost double the airflow allowing the use of larger diameter and longer hoses. One of the main reasons that manufacturers put their vac motors in series is that it drops the amperage draw of the first motor, allowing a larger pump to be connected on the same power cord. Parallel set ups using properly engineered manifolds will accomplish a similar result. Rotovacs tests on other machines is out to lunch which is a shame because the monsoon looks like a decent machine. No, you can't put it in your truck and call it a truck mount unless you're an absolute moron, (or Monson) but coupled with their new 400 psi pump, it should be a beast of a machine. They already have an auto pump out but they should consider an auto fill and Chem feed. If they can keep the weight under 100-105 lbs, it will be a killer machine.
 
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Cleanworks said:
Once you get up 10 inches hg, which is equivalent to aprox 135 inches water lift, adding in airflow will give you drier carpets, especially with longer hose runs. A 13.8 amp 3 stage vac motor will give you 135 inches water lift. Adding a second one in series will give you a lot more lift but not any more CFM. Adding one in parallel won't increase the lift but will almost double the airflow allowing the use of larger diameter and longer hoses. One of the main reasons that manufacturers put their vac motors in series is that it drops the amperage draw of the first motor, allowing a larger pump to be connected on the same power cord. Parallel set ups using properly engineered manifolds will accomplish a similar result. Rotovacs tests on other machines is out to lunch which is a shame because the monsoon looks like a decent machine. No, you can't put it in your truck and call it a truck mount unless you're an absolute moron, (or Monson) but coupled with their new 400 psi pump, it should be a beast of a machine. They already have an auto pump out but they should consider an auto fill and Chem feed. If they can keep the weight under 100-105 lbs, it will be a killer machine.
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Why can’t I hook a water otter up to it? Just loop the solution line back into the tank, and run an otter for higher pressures????
 
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