Seriously, if you have the cash, a way to move it, and a place to put it, that will be the last compressor you will ever need to buy.
Make sure that is a single phase motor. (2 phase??? Never heard of that one.)
Seriously, if you have the cash, a way to move it, and a place to put it, that will be the last compressor you will ever need to buy.
Make sure that is a single phase motor. (2 phase??? Never heard of that one.)
BTW, Mine was a bit of a pain to unload off my trailer. As tall as it was, I ended up moving it in pieces with my engine hoist. With the 120 gallon tank, that thing is probably 750-1000 pounds. You won't want to move it after it lands in its spot.
I feel like the advantages of actually being able to move your compressor without a forklift might be overlooked.
Toyman01 wrote: Seriously, if you have the cash, a way to move it, and a place to put it, that will be the last compressor you will ever need to buy. Make sure that is a single phase motor. (2 phase??? Never heard of that one.)
2 phase is 220/240v
In reply to mad_machine:
I've never heard it called that. Around here, 2 hots and a not, is single phase. Anything with 3 hots and a not, is 3 phase.
Harvey, I agree to a point. My Quincy hasn't moved in several years. I did keep my 2hp for mobile use, but it hasn't been turned on since the big one came online. Mobile use has fallen on a little pancake compressor I used to keep on my trailer for race tires.
In the US, 240vac in a residential setting is single phase. There used to be a thing called two phase but it's essentially obsolete. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-phase_electric_power .
Toyman01 wrote: Go as big and as old as you can afford. Buying a old industrial compressor will get you 10 times the machine a new consumer grade will. You won't regret it.
Good advice.
I am used to Theatrical Lighting.. so my education is biased towards that... but I did learn something interesting. While 2 phase is obsolete, Philadelphia has many buildings in centre city that are permanently wired for it.. therefor PECO has to supply two phase to them
As for "two hots and a not".. That should be 240v as each leg is only 120v.. unless you are drawing both hots from the same leg
In reply to Brett_Murphy:
It's all about the tank size.. If the air tank is big enough you can work with a flashlight battery (Almost) My big air compressor threw it's belts this spring and I've been too busy to replace them (and find out what caused them to be thrown) So I plugged in my tiny little 1/2 hp 35 year old Chinese air compressor into the big tank and suddenly it's nearly Thanksgiving and fixing the old compressor is still down on the bottom of my too do list..
I did that to mine, Frenchy, I have a big 50 gallon upright that died. I took the motor off and made it so I can fill it from my small dewalt... makes a great airtank
I got a two stage sears vertical tank that that's served me really well. Not as quiet as a industrial unit but much better than the smaller buzz box units. Small sand blasting project or painting with one of those disposable HF guns is no problem. I have not tried a DA. If I remember it is rated at 10CFM at 90 psi.
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