Thomas,
How goes progress on your setup? Get a chance to fire her up yet?
Mike
What's up Mike. Yes, I got a chance to get the Prowler 13HP running. It took a week or so, but I got her going. When it was delivered Central Transport dropped it off a pallet and broke all the plumping, and pipe fittings on the pump side and on the front of the machine, blew out the front tire (from the drop off the pallet), lost the mounting cage brackets for the unit, and destroyed the air filter because it was soaked in oil from the drop off the pallet. So the unit has oil in the carb and possibly the heat exchanger or exhaust system. I had to basically rebuild all the plumbing and cut some metal to make a cage so the machine didn't roll around in my trailer.
Anyway, now a week on, I've installed it in my trailer with hose reels, chem rack, etc, etc. I am still playing with the layout a bit and the chemical feed system since they also broke the knob on the pump, so I have to no way of knowing how much chemical I am metering yet, but that is an easy albeit time consuming fix (have to wait for Ben from Amtex to contact me back with instructions on how to fix.).
When I fired it up it smoked like nobodys business due to oil being burned off. Besides that It runs nicely. Its loud as hell but alot of TM's are. Their is more suction that any portable I've owned and the auto-pump out is cool, although some jobs may be difficult to do because their isn't an adequate place to dump water, like say at a business with no lawn or immediately available sewer cleanout.
I changed the jets on my Westpak 0530 wand to 11002 jets so that I could maintain high heat (I also have a Little Giant 3HT if I need to add it to the system) with the Prowler, so I'm still working on accurately regulating the temperature and bypass valves so the unit doesn't by-pass water to the pumpout when the temp gets above 210 degrees.
While cleaning my home I noticed that the unit would drop pressure, and I didn't know why. Well it's because the unit has a temperature regulator bypass which kicks in when the temp gets to hot. This is a good thing. But it does mean that you loose pressure when this happens and have to then wait for the pump to re-in gauge. I don't think this is going to be a problem since I can just close my ball valve and the system will re-prime itself.
Overall I like the system but haven't worked with it enough to really give a super review. When I've got a few jobs under my belt with it, I'll post a comprehensive review.