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    4 gpm...

    X-Jet draw ratios vary based on GPM not PSI. The higher the GPM the weaker the solution that you'll be able to spray.

    With no proportioner at 4 GPM the mix ratio is 1.6/1.0.

    If you used straight 12.5% SH you'd be spraying SH at 4.8%. This is calculated as:

    12.5/(1.6 + 1.0) = 4.8%

    I assume that you're using 5% household bleach? If so, the SH content in your receipe is 1.2%, which is about right.

    Your receipe = 3 gallons 5.0% SH and 2 gallons of water. So:

    (3 x 5.0%)/5 Total Gallons in Pail = 3.0% SH

    3.0%/(1.6 + 1.0) = 1.2% SH coming out of the gun.

    If you used the grey proportioner the SH % out the gun level would decline to 0.9%.

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    I've been washing houses for years. My main business is window cleaning. I work by myself. I've used the X-Jet for yrs using 3 gallons of bleach ( or less ), Simple Cherry, 2 gallons of water and no proportioner in the X-Jet. I can't buy the 12% bleach because buying 50 gallons of it would degrade before I used it all. It's simpler for me to just go buy gallons of bleach when I have a housewash job.. I've looked up ratios using the proportioners, but all I find is the mixing ratios with 12% bleach. My question is. What proportioner would be recommended if I were to not delute the bleach, but rather pour a few gallons of bleach in a container, mix Simple Cherry with it and don't add any water?? Any idea. Thanks..

    How many GPMs is your pump?

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    The X-Jet works off a venturi to draw chem to the injector. This is powered by the psi and to a certain extent gpm of the machine. When you cut on the chem valve it takes away psi in order to draw the chem, so it shoots shorter. When you close the chem valve there is no chem draw so you have no loss in psi or gpm, shooting further.

     

    Hope This Helps.

    That's one of the reasons I don't use the proportioners.

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    Actually I started using LA's Simply Awesome this year and have had fantastic results. I put 1/2 gallon in 2 or 2-1/2 gallons of water and apply with a soft brush. I always first spray my downstream wash mix and then my tech falls in behind me brushing the gutters. So far this year it has not let me down. It had been very effective. I finally got around to taking some b/a pics today. I've got to start doing more of these pictures.

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    Pat, first time I've seen this post. Great before and after pics (as usual). Thanks for the share, am going to try it out.

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