Bought a big a$$ air compressor today

[j-c-c-62]

Depends how hard it was to get started.

I was on a jury that convicted a man for capital murder, because he backed his car into the driveway, left the lights on, left the door open,
LEFT THE MOTOR RUNNING, among other things, also being a single person onsite alone was robbed and shot dead. Nobody saw anybody shoot anybody and there no physical evidence. It was convincing to the jury a crime was preplanned and intentional and proven, the capital murder stuck because someone died during the commission of the robbery.

I never leave my motor running.

 

[Demonic]

Those unloaders are for startup only, they're not part of a constant volume system. In other words, difficult to activate under load without modifications. So you'll still have to clutch it from a pressure signal if it will see a high volume/time use.

The Bugatti of air compressors

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I have a 80 gal vertical Champion. I like to think of it as the Hemi Charger of air compressors.

 

[BB BELLA]

scroll compressors are the cat's ***! had 2 of them in one small room 12x12 room at the casino for shop air and laundry! didn't even know what I was looking at when i started working there, the operations manager told me they were compressors, holy **** their quiet, my job was to service the filters,better job than servicing the chillers or generators!

 

[zyzzyx]

I have a Champion VR5 Vertical coming in a few weeks with an 80 gal. tank. It's replacing my Quincy 230 5 Horse with a horizontal
tank. I need the room! Those Champions are great.

 

[RJ Squirrel]

Update on bigass air compressor, got the unloader controls figured out, the long skinny pilot valve activates the unloaders at 100 psi to stop it making air, and back on again at 85 psi. The square one on the oil pump unloads it for startup and also if oil pressure is lost. I ran it for awhile yesterday, it will keep up with a 1/4” nozzle OK.
Glad it works so I did not need to take it apart. I don’t have much invested in it, the dollar signs in the title were added by phantom moderator to make the thread G rated.

 

[RJ Squirrel]

Connections to the tank, and splined PTO drive hub on the big *** heavy pulley/fan/flywheel

 

[RJ Squirrel]

Recognize that color?