VACUUM 101 HELP NEEDED

I have 6 JE ADAMS vacuums. All was working fine and then last night it poured really hard rain. This morning I have two vacuums down that just sem to be dead. I opened them and fliped the coin thingie three time and they did not respond, I tried quarters no fire. OK I need a manual or something. Any body got something on the web. or is it Call Adams and get a owners manual ?????? well du :)

First check the breaker. Even if it does not look like it tripped, it may have. Flip it to off and then on and check the vac again.

You need an electrical tester. If you have a 24 volt transformer in there you need to have one that can check for 24 volts.

First check the power supply coming in. Power there? If no, you may have a short underground in broken conduit exacerbated by moisture. If there is power there, Check the power where it goes to the next connection. Is it a timer or transfomer? If it is a transformer, make sure you have power in and then check the power out. If you have a relay, you will need to then check that you get power out of the relay. If you seem to have power out of the timer as well, and power everywhere else you may have bad motors, but it's unlikely they would all fail at the same time.

Please report back.

I will second "check the breakers" Do the two vacs share a breaker? Two vacs should not be sharing the same breaker, but I have seen some that do. You may have an open shared neutral going back to the panel.

Vacs are fairly simple. Power comes into the timer. The sensortron or wire switch attached to the mechanical acceptor tells the timer to start the time. The timer tells the relay to energize the motors. The timer shuts down after the time is up. Check the 110V coming into the timer from your source. Earl above is right - in my view. Sounds like moisture is in your buried conduit or water has somehow been introduced so some exposed wires. If this happened however, the breaker would kick. I had a problem this past summer with one of my vacs. I had voltage, but not enough.

Joe
www.crowncarwashinc.com

thought I would let you all know what the problem turned out to be. Seems the vacuums where originally built using a timer that was since discontinued and the new one they sent me was not simply plug and play, had to rewire a few things, Not difficult but very frustrating that they did not tell me this when I called.
distributor was clueless but the JE people tech support where great. Anyway. I found out that 7 year old equipment is considered OLD TECH to the industry people :( but to me it works just fine :)