How should a company record the results of a trial using PowerDe PWD01 with battery?

A battery-powered trial usually lasts about the length of one shift, and the notes you keep during that shift decide whether the result supports a purchase, a fleet expansion, or only another round of testing. The PowerDe PWD01 driving style steam cleaning machine is listed in the mobile PowerDe cleaning equipment range, in dry-steam, wet-steam and hot-water modes, and the catalogue covers both a battery-included variant and a variant supplied without a battery. Because the published page does not state battery capacity or run time, the trial itself has to produce the endurance figures you care about. The recording plan below is written for that situation: one machine, one or two operators, a fixed set of jobs, and a small log that any buyer or supplier can read without explanation.

What a battery trial should test in one shift

The page for the PowerDe PWD01 driving style steam cleaning machine (including battery) describes a mobile active-water cleaning machine for indoor garages and narrow outdoor parking spaces. Those two settings set the scope of a fair trial. In an indoor garage the questions are handling and access: whether the machine can be driven to the bay, whether the wand reaches the wheel arches and sills, and whether the exhaust and moisture build-up are acceptable in a closed space. In a narrow outdoor lot the questions are travel distance, ground surface, and whether the machine can be moved between vehicles without repositioning a hose run or a water feed each time.

Keep the job list short and repeatable, for example five vehicles with exterior wash, one engine-compartment clean, and one interior vacuum or wipe-down task. Run the same list on the same day so weather and soiling do not change between the first vehicle and the last. If both the battery-included and the no-battery PWD01 variants are under review, run the identical job list on each one, on comparable vehicles, and record the two results side by side.

Before the first run: write down the starting conditions

Record the configuration you are actually testing, not the configuration you expect to buy. The PWD01 is offered as a battery-included machine and as a machine without a battery, and accessories and settings can be varied, so the log should name the model string from the quotation, the variant, and any options requested from PowerDe. Note the water source available on site and the connection used, the electrical supply if the machine is charged or operated from mains power, and the ambient temperature, because a cold morning and a warm afternoon change how long a job takes. Photograph the vehicle or surface before cleaning, with a date stamp, and number the photos so they match the job entries in the log.

Anything you cannot confirm from the machine or the paperwork should be marked as an open question rather than filled in from memory. Battery capacity, charge time, run time per charge, hose and wand lengths, and the accessory set are the items most often missing from a first trial, and they are the items you will want answered in writing before an order.

During the run: what to log for each job

One row per job is enough. For each row capture:

• Start time, end time, and the mode used: dry steam, wet steam, or hot water.
• State of charge at the start of the job and at the end, in whatever unit the machine displays, plus the number of battery swaps or charges during the shift.
• Work performed: vehicle type, area cleaned, and how heavy the soil was, using your own scale such as light, normal, or heavy road film and grease.
• Water use and refills: how often the tank had to be topped up and where the water came from.
• Any stoppage, warning, or protection event, with the time and what the operator did about it.
• Operator name and a one-line comment on handling, weight, noise, or reach.

Log the mode with the job, because dry steam, wet steam and hot water behave differently on the same surface and give different drying times. A row that says only "cleaned vehicle 3" cannot be compared with another site or a later supplier trial.

Safety and site conditions to watch while the battery is in use

In the indoor-garage case, check ventilation, floor drainage, and how the charging point is positioned relative to the wash area, and keep walkways clear of hoses. On an outdoor lot, watch ground surface, slope, and where waste water runs off. Cleaning an engine compartment is a separate case that needs the vehicle switched off and cooled, and it should be recorded as its own job rather than folded into an exterior wash. When you compare the PWD01 with another machine from the PowerDe steam cleaning machine range, such as the PWD02 in the same driving style series, list the protection functions exactly as the supplier states them for that model, since the published descriptions of the range do not use one fixed wording for this.

After the shift: turning notes into a decision

Total the shift: jobs completed, total running time, number of charges or swaps, and how much of the shift the machine was idle for lack of charge. Compare against what the site needs on a normal day, not on the trial day. Then check the three things that decide whether a mobile machine works commercially: does the run time cover a realistic working block, can the machine be driven and repositioned in the actual parking layout, and does the cleaning result hold up on the worst vehicles rather than the best ones. Any unanswered technical figure should go back to PowerDe as a written list; the contact page is where specification confirmations and accessory options are requested.

A recording template you can copy

Keep the log, the photographs, and the supplier's written answers together in one file. Sent to PowerDe with the job list you used, that record makes it possible to confirm the configuration, request the missing specifications, and compare the trial against a second site before committing to equipment for a whole Cleaning Equipment Series rollout.