Air compressor at the brewery is acting weird after a canning day. Normally lives an easy life, just opening a couple pneumatically actuated valves. During canning days, it gets sees more use running air knives.
It is a Kobalt, 20 gallon, 1.8hp, 150psi max compressor.
It is just venting. Not from the blow-off valve. It's coming from under a plastic shielding (that I presume is) over the regulator.
If I turn up the regulator so the "tool pressure" equals the tank pressure, it seems to stop venting. But I don't want to run my valve actuators at 150psi.
I presume there is something messed up in the regulator mechanism. Dunno if this is an easy fix or a case of buy the brewery a new compressor and someone here can have an old one for free.
the one way checkvalve in the tank is probably stuck, follow the line from the compressor to the tank, its right there in the tank
warpedredneck said:
the one way check valve in the tank is probably stuck, follow the line from the compressor to the tank, its right there in the tank
Possibly its overheating on heavy usage days and the check valve is getting stuck because of that.
Could be the head pressure bleeder is stuck. Could be the tank check valve if it has one, some don't. Could be a blown diagram in the regulator.
Most Lowes sells new regulators for the Kobalt units. Not too complicated to change.
Could also just be dirt in the regulator. I just tear 'em down and clean.
In a production setting I'd replace the regulator with new and clean the used one. Also check the filter/ separator.
