CMA Dishmachines 180-VL TALL 26 In. Ventless Door Type Dishwasher, 28 In. Dish Clearance, 40 Racks/Hour

The CMA Dishmachines 180-VL TALL Energy Mizer is a high temperature ventless door type dishwasher with an extended chamber that clears items up to 28 inches tall, roughly ten inches more than the standard model. Sheet pans standing on edge, stock pots, mixing bowls, and cutting boards go through the same machine that handles your plate racks, all without a vent hood over the top. Running about 40 racks per hour with a 180°F sanitizing rinse, it suits bakeries, caterers, and full-service kitchens that wash bulky smallwares all day and cannot give up ceiling space to ductwork.

Ventless Heat Recovery That Replaces the Vent Hood

A hooded high temperature machine needs ductwork overhead to carry away the steam it releases; the 180-VL TALL condenses that steam inside and reclaims its heat instead. The heat recovery system captures water vapor from the wash and rinse cycle and condenses it against incoming 41°F to 65°F cold water, evacuating the chamber while pre-heating the feed to the booster. Since the booster starts from pre-heated water, it burns less energy climbing to 180°F, and the automatic heat exchanger condenser wash-down keeps the whole system clean without anyone thinking about it.

Safe-T-Temp Sanitizing with a Built-In Booster

Safe-T-Temp assures a 180°F sanitizing rinse on every cycle, independent of how taxed your building hot water system is. The required 12 kW electric booster heater is built in and monitored by a booster safety thermostat, while a 6 kW tank heater holds the 8 gallon wash tank at a minimum 155°F to 160°F. The Door Safety Interlock system keeps all doors locked for the entire cycle, which lets the heat recovery system finish evacuating vapor before the doors ever open into your dish room.

Doors, Clearance, and Footprint

Three doors give you straight-through or corner installation from the same machine, so the TALL adapts to the dish line you already have. Its 20-1/2 inch door opening and 28 inch maximum dish clearance accept full sheet pans and tall stock pots on standard 20 by 20 inch racks, capacity a standard-height door machine simply cannot match. The cabinet holds the familiar 25-1/2 inch width and 29 inch depth but rises to 95-5/16 to 96-5/16 inches tall, so check your ceiling height; the machine itself needs just 6 inches of fan clearance above.

Throughput, Water Use, and Daily Operation

The cycle runs a minimum of 90 seconds of wash, rinse, and steam evacuation, supporting roughly 40 racks per hour when the crew keeps racks staged. Maximum water use is 0.89 gallons per rack, around 36 gallons per hour at full tilt, so heavy smallware days do not blow up the water bill. A door-actuated start makes operation fully automatic: load, close, and walk back to the sink. Wash tank screens keep soil out of the spray arms, a water level safety control protects the tank heater, a rinse pressure regulating valve is supplied, and the 1 HP pump converts in the field from three phase to single phase.