[NWH]

It’s like everything or most things that are almost perfect they try to change things slightly and turn them in to ordinary over engineered products,the first HD reel was spot on the only thing that needed changing was metalwork to stop the hose going over the side.
As soon as you start making brilliant steel and stainless steel products the best way to F**k em up is start making them out of plastic.

[NWH]

Saying that I wouldn’t want to start selling items that were bullet proof and would last 100 years with only the need of a couple of cheap items to keep em going,I’d say sod this let’s make em out of plastic they’ll be back for another next 😂

[Richard Groves]

Thanks for everyone with the responses. It seems like to PF is the best, but currently I don’t have the budget for it. Gona go with the powerup 3D. 

I’m not going to be drilling a hose in the floor for the rollers.

Where does everyone position theirs? End of van or on top of tank?

I fitted my 3D just inside the back doors. I removed my vans anchor D rings that were in the floor and replaced with the same sized threaded bolts to secure a sheet of plywood that I screwed the reel on to. Although I have a big bag of fuses for the inevitable hose snag and fuse blow I'll probably buy a resettable switched fuse that someone suggested on another thread for convenience. Worth buying a spare start/stop ignition switch, easily sourced from eBay, they do eventually fail.  My first gen 1 3D's switch needed replacing and shortly after belt snapped, replaced under warranty ( I wouldn't want to have to change a belt ). The replacement has been much better and 🤞faultless the last 2 years.

[robert mitchell]

Thanks for everyone with the responses. It seems like to PF is the best, but currently I don’t have the budget for it. Gona go with the powerup 3D. 

I’m not going to be drilling a hose in the floor for the rollers.

Where does everyone position theirs? End of van or on top of tank?

I fitted my 3D just inside the back doors. I removed my vans anchor D rings that were in the floor and replaced with the same sized threaded bolts to secure a sheet of plywood that I screwed the reel on to. Although I have a big bag of fuses for the inevitable hose snag and fuse blow I'll probably buy a resettable switched fuse that someone suggested on another thread for convenience. Worth buying a spare start/stop ignition switch, easily sourced from eBay, they do eventually fail.  My first gen 1 3D's switch needed replacing and shortly after belt snapped, replaced under warranty ( I wouldn't want to have to change a belt ). The replacement has been much better and 🤞faultless the last 2 years.

The push button switches went on the old reels because they didnt use a relay , it was direct switching ........ which arcs the contacts, i think the majority of reels use a relay now .  Im very happy with my ionics electric reel.