Makes sense. Good info to know. Actually I have a 1/4 scale miniature locomotive that I am converting to electric drive. Looking for a small, on board air pump to charge the air brake system. Maintaining 60 PSI into a 3-5 gal reservoir is my goal. So less capacity than a tire. Looks like this one could work. Thanks for putting it out there.
Sent from my iPad > On Mar 22, 2021, at 10:21 AM, (-Phil-) via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah, Most of the air compressors for sale nowadays are junk. I > recommended this one because I still have a similar model from the same > company that's going strong after many years. This is especially true if > you have a light truck and are trying to push 80PSI into a tire. The unit > doesn't draw 15A unless it's really working hard. When a normal ICE car > is not running, the voltage at the cig lighter socket is usually down to > around 12v, whereas if the engine's running it can be a few volts higher. > Obviously on most EV's this is a non-issue. They also don't want you to > get stuck on the side of the road with a flat, then after repairing your > flat, you then find out your car won't crank. > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:05 AM John Lussmyer via EV <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Mon Mar 22 09:53:02 PDT 2021 [email protected] said: >>> Regarding the air compressor link, What does it mean in the ad, where it >> says ?engine must be running during use?? >>> >>> That is a very odd requirement for an air compressor. >> >> Look at the current draw on that one. 15A >> For many small cars, that will kill the battery quick if the engine isn't >> running. >> It also means that it won't take several hours to fill a tire. >> >> >> -- >> >> Worlds only All Electric F-250 truck! >> http://john.casadelgato.com/Electric-Vehicles/1995-Ford-F-250 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Address messages to [email protected] >> No other addresses in TO and CC fields >> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >> ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ >> LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210322/d48c12e5/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
