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My only concern would be that your water pressure isn't high enough. In commercial systems, the air pressure is at 90-120psi, but the water pressure usually at
by gorbypark 3y ago
My only concern would be that your water pressure isn't high enough. In commercial systems, the air pressure is at 90-120psi, but the water pressure usually at a minimum 250psi (and sometimes as high as 900psi).
When the water pressure drops below the air pressure, you get what we called "the helicopter", where the snowgun pulses and makes a "whomp whomp whomp" sound (like a helicopter).
I have always assumed this is happening because the air and water are "fighting" each other and instead of getting a constant stream of mixed air/water you are getting a period of water only, then a period of air only. The snowgun will actually bounce up and down. We'd run into this a lot when trying to turn down the water really low on days where the temperatures were very marginal.
I have heard of people using pressure washers to up their water pressure.