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Mike,

Think of it as a pressure storage vessel.  It will allow your system to work with less of a burden on the pump.

Hank

It is like a bladder tank.  It prevents pulsation and is supposedly easier on the pressure switches.  Keeps them from cycling so much.  One more component to go wrong.  That is why I never used one.

I use accumulators and I'm still on my original Fat boy..2nd season and no problems with either one..but I do use my all-flo this year. 

I agree with Steve and Eric!

Roof Cleaning Katy Texas (281) 392-2304 wrote:

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It is like a bladder tank.  It prevents pulsation and is supposedly easier on the pressure switches.  Keeps them from cycling so much.  One more component to go wrong.  That is why I never used one.

 

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 When you have had as many roof cleaning trucks as I have, and watched them get destroyed by chemical leaks,  you want as simple a roof cleaning system as possible.

That's why we use air pumps and no hose reels. For our purposes, the less connections the better. Our hoses hook right up to our pumps output connection. 

That's one reason I never tried an accumulator, but some seem to have had good luck with them.

gutterdog wrote:

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I still dont totally get how they work? I can be dense sometimes, lol! I posted the after I got the dual pump from powerwash store. It is much better than what had had before.

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 It works a lot like a capacitor works in a car stereo system Mike.  The accumulator stores pressurized fluid that the hose "feeds on", instead of the hose feeding directly on the pump .