Consider it a blessing your still within the trial period.
You need to start fresh now that you have some guidance.
There is more to it than just shortening the set-up and break-down time, which I am sure you will eventually do, but it is more about the fundamentals.
Everyone who started out cleaning with a porty and a wand knows damn well they are better cleaners because of it.
A RE has no place in a newbies hands.
The first step is to become proficient with a wand, not a RE, and learn to utilize the cleaning pie.
Another important fundamental to learn when starting out is to be able to gauge how much water you are putting down and how much you are recovering, and it's something that you won't get with an auto-fill-dump-only machine if you lack experience, nonetheless when paired with a RE that the operator has no idea of how it's use can, and should be tuned to the main unit and the conditions.
It's asking for trouble for many reasons.
I agree with your sentiments but not the outcome.
I have used a Rotovac 360i on every carpet for 2 years and would in view of that experience never waste my time with separate agitation and a wand unless the carpet is very, very clean.
I can't replicate with a wand what I get with a rotary extractor.
I think giving up an RE for a disc machine / 175 is silly. The Rotovac can BE a disc machine. It weighs less to cart around for a newbie. And disc machines can't rinse carpets at all and RJE's do it better than any other device save for a claw.
They marry together improving cleaning performance, recovering soil, water and contaminants and chemicals and reducing operator effort and as a result injury.
Why make shit hard for newbies? That's not a good thing.
My advice Keep 360i you will NEVER use water more efficiently on your porty. Once you get onto a tank you want good productivity for water use. You will use more water with a wand on a porty to do less work for you than if you gave that same water to the Rotovac. FACT...
You can use a pissy 2 jet for a clean carpet and do all the hard yards up front, or you can vacuum, spot, spray, Rotovac.
When you are new you're trying to build a name, a reputation. Rotovacs serve to make your job - untouchable - by anybody else if used right. You can leave it clean and it's so good even a TM guy can come after you and get it - no better. That's GOOD for building a good name.
Keep the broadband modem (Rotovac) ditch the dialup (wand).
