Worth a try.... will report
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 11:27 pm
I was at the local tool-o-rama, which for me is about 100 miles away, and I was browsing through their compressors - they had a good dozen on the floor of various brands, I was impressed with the selection.
I noticed this tag:
and I thought "That's in the ballpark." A quick look at the pump showed me a two stage head - the tell-tale finned intercooler line is a giveaway. But wait... it's not a 2 stage. It's a twin single rigged to look like a bit like a 2-stage if you didn't have your eyes on.
Now, I'm Mr. Research and I tend not to make big purchases totally impulsively. I've been gearing up to buy a compressor and considering options and price points. I got this unit for literally 1/3 of what the 2-stage Ingersoll/rand was going to cost with a 60gal tank and the cfm at 90psi is higher on this pump. Can such things be and not overcome us? Here's where things get interesting. Lots of reading on compressors reveals that single stage pumps can offer more air at lower pressures than double-stage pumps when set up like this. So there's an efficiency curve that starts to wane on the single stage pumps after a certain pressure. Up at 170 PSI the single stage pumps won't produce as much CFM by a noticeable amount as a 2 stage pump, but nearer 100, the twin singles produce more. So..... I thought I'd give this thing a run. It's a huge upgrade from my little portable thingy no matter what. If it proves to be not enough, I can sell it and not lose too much. At what I paid, if I get a year out of it, I'll be happy, actually. Once it's wired up and I'm blasting, I'll report back and tell you guys whether I'm full of shit or not. Vote early, vote often.
And it's black. It's like... Mad Max built a compressor. How could I not buy it?
I noticed this tag:
and I thought "That's in the ballpark." A quick look at the pump showed me a two stage head - the tell-tale finned intercooler line is a giveaway. But wait... it's not a 2 stage. It's a twin single rigged to look like a bit like a 2-stage if you didn't have your eyes on.
Now, I'm Mr. Research and I tend not to make big purchases totally impulsively. I've been gearing up to buy a compressor and considering options and price points. I got this unit for literally 1/3 of what the 2-stage Ingersoll/rand was going to cost with a 60gal tank and the cfm at 90psi is higher on this pump. Can such things be and not overcome us? Here's where things get interesting. Lots of reading on compressors reveals that single stage pumps can offer more air at lower pressures than double-stage pumps when set up like this. So there's an efficiency curve that starts to wane on the single stage pumps after a certain pressure. Up at 170 PSI the single stage pumps won't produce as much CFM by a noticeable amount as a 2 stage pump, but nearer 100, the twin singles produce more. So..... I thought I'd give this thing a run. It's a huge upgrade from my little portable thingy no matter what. If it proves to be not enough, I can sell it and not lose too much. At what I paid, if I get a year out of it, I'll be happy, actually. Once it's wired up and I'm blasting, I'll report back and tell you guys whether I'm full of shit or not. Vote early, vote often.
And it's black. It's like... Mad Max built a compressor. How could I not buy it?