Hello everyone. My name is Darren Harp. I’m with CHUTES International. Today, we are going to demonstrate how our chute interacts with our bisorter. On this building, we have a single chute coming out. We have our accordion style fire damper door on the bottom of the chute. This door has a fusible link holding it open at all times. If this room temperature were to reach 165°F, that link will melt and the door will slam shut. Under normal circumstances, it is open and discharging into our bisorter machine.
Straight down from the chute, you’ll have your trash, which goes into a compactor underneath your bisorter. These are two separate machines. To the right, we have our open-top recycle bin. The doors on every floor are electric interlock doors with buttons for “recycle” and “trash.” “Trash” is always the default. If you press the “recycle” button, the diverter plate in this machine will move to the left, stopping anything coming down the chute from going into the compactor. Instead, it will hit the diverter plate and go into the recycle side.
It’s important to know that the door will remain locked until the diverter plate is in the correct position. So, when you press “recycle,” you must wait for the diverter plate to move. Once it’s in position, the door can be opened and the recycle can be put in. After you put the recycle in, the door will self-close and positively latch, and then the diverter plate will move back into the trash position. While the diverter plate is moving back, you will not be able to open the door; it will remain locked. Once the diverter plate is back, the door can be used again. This is the typical setup for your bisorter.
The compactor has its own power unit, and the bisorter has its own power unit. Let’s start with the compactor. Here is your ANC compliant light, which should be flashing. Your power button is on with a light. This is powering the compactor and how it should look under normal circumstances. Your bisorter power unit should show “Trash” illuminated, power on, and no flashing lights. This means the chute is ready to be used.
When it’s time to change out your recycle bin, you move it back. There is a limit switch on the bar that detects the can is no longer there. This locks out your chute, meaning the doors cannot be used because the machine and doors know there’s nothing to receive recycling. Your sorter may have come equipped with a toter, and your control panel will look different when the can is removed. The light for recycle will be blinking, and there will be a red fault or jam light, indicating no can.
When the can is replaced and pushed back in, it will hit the limit switch, telling the machine the can is there and the chute can be used again. Your control panel will return to its original setting. Once the can is back in place, there’s one more step: press the emergency stop button in, then turn it to the right to release it. Once that’s done, it will be back to normal. There are two emergency stop buttons for the bisorter: one on the control panel and one on the actual machine. This is per code, giving you two places for an emergency stop if needed. Remember this step whenever you replace the recycle can.
Let’s talk briefly about the photo eye. The photo eye in your compactor determines when the compactor is full and the ram needs to extend to compact the trash into your can. As you see now, the ram is fully extended, and there’s the opening into the can. We’ve taken it off so you can see what that looks like. The photo eye is here, shooting lasers across the compactor to a reflector plate on the other side. When trash builds up, it blocks that laser from the photo eye going to the reflector plate, and it knows it’s full.
One key element for the photo eye and reflector plate is to keep them clean. This is trash, so it gets dirty. To clean them, use a soft cloth with a little bit of water. No alcohol or harsh cleaning agents are necessary. Wipe the photo eye here and the reflector plate here. We recommend doing this every time you change out a can.
There are four reasons why you will need to reset your compactor: if someone turns off the power switch completely on the wall; if someone hits the emergency button; if someone opens the access door (for a bisorter, the access door is here); or if someone uses the key to turn the power off here. If your bisorter experiences a jam or a clog, you will need to fix that issue first by removing it. At any time if these things happen, you need to reset your machine. To reset your machine, simply push the start button in and hold it for 45 seconds.
One last thing: if you’re not sure if you have to reset your machine, remember the previous video where this light flashing was a good thing. Now it’s not flashing at all, which is a bad thing. It’s time to reset the machine. So, let’s do that right now by pressing the start button in for 45 seconds. Automatically, the ram is going to come out and go back in. That happens at 45 seconds. Notice your light is now flashing. Power on. No other flashing lights. We’re good to go.
Before you start running the water for your D&S (Disinfecting & Sanitizing) system, you have the option to lock out your doors. If you have an interlock door system on your chute, you can simply unplug the doors here, or if you have a control panel like this, with a completely smooth face, you must unplug the doors to lock them out. This particular building has two chutes, so you’ll have two control panels. This particular system has a key. When you have a key on your control panel, the key must be in the “on” position. When the key is in the “on” position, you’ll see a green light on the control panel. This is the case for pneumatic or electric interlock doors.
You also want to make sure you remove the dumpster from the compactor and ensure that space in the compactor is free of debris or trash, because the D&S soapy disinfecting solution is going to come straight down your chute into the hopper of your compactor and then out onto the floor. That’s how it’s designed to do, and that’s fine because the hopper gets hit with trash as well. As it comes out to the floor, then you start to move it into your drain. You’ll have a drain somewhere in your room, and that’s where the solution goes. Once you’re done running the system, don’t forget to either turn your key or plug your doors back in, and then replace the dumpster on the compactor. You’re good to go.
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