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I promised a review on this when I won it on a raffle in this forum in December. I have been using the backpack for quite a bit now, and my thoughts in this review are based on my experiences with it over these jobs.
This backpack is sold by the Window Cleaning Warehouse here:
http://www.windowcleaningwarehouse.co.uk/shop/index.php?option=com_aceshop&route=product/product&path=90_23&product_id=4031&Itemid=73
First, lets see what the backpack looks like
First Impressions
My first impressions were fairly good to start with. The whole unit is compact for it's capacity, the plastic felt pretty robust, and the controls looked easy enough to access. The strap system that holds it to your back, looked a bit suspect at first, but I would hold judgement till after using it for a while.
The instructions were pretty vague, so it's just as well that it is all fairly straight forward, and common sense could take care of most things.
There was the remains of some water in the tank (just a very small amount), so I was guessing that it had been tested before I got it.
The First Task
The instructions told me that the battery needed charged up before I used it for the first time. So, I plugged in the charger, only to find out that the lights that were supposed to come on – didn't. /emoticons/sad.png
I rechecked my connections, and the instructions, and it looked like there was a problem. So, I phoned the Window Cleaning Warehouse. A nice lady told me that some of the wiring had maybe come loose in transport and would I be happy to have a look inside myself? I said that I would have a look for anything obvious, but it would have to wait as I didn't have time to do it right then.
I had gotten the unit just before they closed for the Christmas holidays, I mean just a few hours before they closed. With one thing and another, I never got to do anything with it until new year anyway.
When I opened it up, I did find a loose wire, the solder joint was obviously very poorly done on this wire. I re-soldered it myself, and attached up the charger again. The light on the charger was now coming on. After another phone call, a day's wait, and a returned phone call. A man at the Window Cleaning Warehouse said that it sounded like it was working OK now, and that I should just go ahead and give it a 24 hour charge initially, then charge it overnight when it required it.
Here Is The Bad joint
[Due To The Restrictions on The Number of Images Per Post, This Review Is Split Over A Number of Posts on This Thread]
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This backpack is sold by the Window Cleaning Warehouse here:
http://www.windowcleaningwarehouse.co.uk/shop/index.php?option=com_aceshop&route=product/product&path=90_23&product_id=4031&Itemid=73
First, lets see what the backpack looks like
First Impressions
My first impressions were fairly good to start with. The whole unit is compact for it's capacity, the plastic felt pretty robust, and the controls looked easy enough to access. The strap system that holds it to your back, looked a bit suspect at first, but I would hold judgement till after using it for a while.
The instructions were pretty vague, so it's just as well that it is all fairly straight forward, and common sense could take care of most things.
There was the remains of some water in the tank (just a very small amount), so I was guessing that it had been tested before I got it.
The First Task
The instructions told me that the battery needed charged up before I used it for the first time. So, I plugged in the charger, only to find out that the lights that were supposed to come on – didn't. /emoticons/sad.png
I rechecked my connections, and the instructions, and it looked like there was a problem. So, I phoned the Window Cleaning Warehouse. A nice lady told me that some of the wiring had maybe come loose in transport and would I be happy to have a look inside myself? I said that I would have a look for anything obvious, but it would have to wait as I didn't have time to do it right then.
I had gotten the unit just before they closed for the Christmas holidays, I mean just a few hours before they closed. With one thing and another, I never got to do anything with it until new year anyway.
When I opened it up, I did find a loose wire, the solder joint was obviously very poorly done on this wire. I re-soldered it myself, and attached up the charger again. The light on the charger was now coming on. After another phone call, a day's wait, and a returned phone call. A man at the Window Cleaning Warehouse said that it sounded like it was working OK now, and that I should just go ahead and give it a 24 hour charge initially, then charge it overnight when it required it.
Here Is The Bad joint
[Due To The Restrictions on The Number of Images Per Post, This Review Is Split Over A Number of Posts on This Thread]
Next...