Re: Excessive air leak rate

2016-12-02 Thread AKS-Gmail-IMAP
There you go Mike, your next product, an IOT supervisory air monitor/recorder device. It could be Arduinoed up with a pressure transducer, real time clock, vibration sensor (sense compressor running and track increasing vibration), thumb drive for data storage and wi-fi. There would really be

RE: Excessive air leak rate

2016-12-02 Thread Larry Keeping
Hi Mike: I didn't give a reply before, because I thought it best that the "hands on" guys give you their input rather than my more theoretical ideas. Anyway, since you came up dry with your first query, my answer to the options that you presented is that all of them would be examples of

Re: Excessive air leak rate

2016-12-02 Thread Douglas Hicks
I must be the only person working today. Did I miss a holiday? 25-2014 13.4.4.2.9 . Page 436 of NFPA 25-2014 Handbook (1) Air at 40 PSI for 2 hours, 3 PSI loss or less is OK (2) Normal air pressure, with air source off for 4 hours. If low pressure alarm goes off within the 4 hours period,

Re: Excessive air leak rate

2016-12-02 Thread Greg McGahan
What do you consider to be an excessive air leak for dry or preaction systems or at what point do you go searching for the cause of the leak? in my experience a compressor should not even run every day...once every few days to a week on a typical system. More than that is not acceptable. How do

RE: Excessive air leak rate

2016-12-02 Thread Mike Henke
Since I only received one response, I'll try this one last time. What do you consider to be an excessive air leak for dry or preaction systems or at what point do you go searching for the cause of the leak? How do you know that you have an excessive air leak? When someone complains about the