[Dan 123]

Hi all, hope all is well, right as some of you know, a few months back I bought a used extracta exel twin vac machine, much to my delight I got home and both vacs blew my electrics, so after changing the vacs all seemed well, untill today.
At a customers house, last job of the day. While cleaning a very large front room, I noticed a puddle of water under the machine, I quickly switched it of, mopped up water and gave it a quick check over. Couldn't find anything. So switched the vacs on and BANG it blows the electrics. Got machine home, got It in pieces and can't find the problem, no cracks/leaks anywhere, I've filled machine up with water and still no leaks. Where could this water have come from? Trouble is this Is my only machine and got loads of jobs to do this week and running up to Xmas

[Fran84]

You will probably find you have got the waste tank too full and got some water/foam in the motors. Plug your machine in, open up your waste tank lid and run the vacs for 5 mins. This should do th trick!!

[Paul Moss]

I will give you a clue.

You have a leak some where.

[Fran84]

I will give you a clue.

You have a leak some where.

 

[Dan 123]

I will give you a clue.

You have a leak some where.

cheers mate.

[Dan 123]

You will probably find you have got the waste tank too full and got some water/foam in the motors. Plug your machine in, open up your waste tank lid and run the vacs for 5 mins. This should do th trick!!

I'll give it a go mate, thanks, I was a bit scared to plug it back in as it blew the electrics twice. I'll leave it till tomorrow to dry out completely then run the vacs.

[garry22]

Dan, before you do anything, get yourself an RCD (circuit breaker / trip). It might save your life and your vacuum motors.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Leaking pump at a guess

You could try turning on machine without pump on and see if it runs without blowing then turn off vacs and just put pump on and see where water is coming from.

Shaun

[Dan 123]

Leaking pump at a guess

You could try turning on machine without pump on and see if it runs without blowing then turn off vacs and just put pump on and see where water is coming from.

Shaun

Cheers mate, pump works fine, plus the water was dirty that leaked out, probably should have mentioned that in the first place.

[Dan 123]

Dan, before you do anything, get yourself an RCD (circuit breaker / trip). It might save your life and your vacuum motors.

Thanks for the reply, funny enough I've got one but just never use it, but will be from now on DEFINATLY.

[Doug Holloway]

Hi Dan

You have almost certainly sucked foam or water into the vacs and this will come out of the bottom.

Run the vacs for 5 mins with the lid open, shopuld be fine.

Cheers

doug

[Neil Williams]

Dan if it doesn't have cut outs for full tanks you'll soon learn to check the waste tank for fullness every 15 minutes of use.
Also don't forget even you do have cut outs they won't work against foam so make sure defoamer goes up the tubes at the beginning of the job.
I'd expect your problem to be foam going through the vacuums and coming out the exhausts in the form of dirty mess. Did it several times with the scorpion which has next to useless cut outs

[Deep Cleaning Solutions]

I had a problem like this once. After searching for a while, i eventually found that their was a crack in the waste tank, at the base of one of the vac pipes, it was very hard to see.I solved the problem by using some epoxy putty, it worked for years after.

[garry22]

As Deep Clean said above. It may be a crack that only appears when the system is under full load (wand closed down to the carpet). The case deforms and opens the crack up.

[Dan 123]

Hi guys thanks for all the suggestions, lucky enough it was just some foam/water sucked up the vacs, done as you guys said and ran the vacs with waste lid open, problem solved.

[from edge2edge]

Dan leave the lid off at night too..............Alan(swindon)

[Dan 123]

I useually do mate. Thanks Alan