Tin Can
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i have a small sip 2hp 25 litre hobby compressor with its own regulator fitted and want to 'plumb' it into a seperate regulator in my garage
The onboard regulator must stay as i need it to be portable and run the small air tools that i have i.e. my garage is quite a distance from the back of the house and the drive down the side of the house is too tight to fit my freelander down so if i need to use the tyre inflator i need to take the compressor to the car
I have an Aldi/powercraft regulator/filter/oiler that i wanted to fit permently to the garage wall and run the air tools from that when in the garage and so therefore take the output from the comressor to this unit.
I did a dummy run last night and attached air tools to the compressors regulator and set the output to 6 cfm and all worked well -
I then connected a hose from the compressors own regulator and connected it to the input of the Aldi regulator/filter/oiler and set that regulator to 6cfm as well - all appeared well at this stage.
I took my small air drill and connected it to the output of the Aldi regulator pulled the trigger and it briefly powered the drill for about a second and that was it - i tried it a number of times and each time it did the same - it appears to 'suck' all the air out of the aldi regulators filter bowl with a whoosh, the gauge drops from 6 cfm to virtually zero and doesnt appear to be able to refil the bowl with comoressed air
If i looked back at the compressors own regulator it shows an output still of 6 cfm and the compressor tanks gauge hasnt changed.
If i go back to 'hanging tools off the compressors regulator everything works fine again
What am i doing wrong - probably something so simple/basic OR is it the fact that there are 2 regulators on the system - if so what is the workaround as i have said at the begining the compressors own regulator needs to stay for portability and as i have the Aldi regulator i want to make use of it AND i need the filter/water trap for when i start doing some spraying
Thanks
Mark
The onboard regulator must stay as i need it to be portable and run the small air tools that i have i.e. my garage is quite a distance from the back of the house and the drive down the side of the house is too tight to fit my freelander down so if i need to use the tyre inflator i need to take the compressor to the car
I have an Aldi/powercraft regulator/filter/oiler that i wanted to fit permently to the garage wall and run the air tools from that when in the garage and so therefore take the output from the comressor to this unit.
I did a dummy run last night and attached air tools to the compressors regulator and set the output to 6 cfm and all worked well -
I then connected a hose from the compressors own regulator and connected it to the input of the Aldi regulator/filter/oiler and set that regulator to 6cfm as well - all appeared well at this stage.
I took my small air drill and connected it to the output of the Aldi regulator pulled the trigger and it briefly powered the drill for about a second and that was it - i tried it a number of times and each time it did the same - it appears to 'suck' all the air out of the aldi regulators filter bowl with a whoosh, the gauge drops from 6 cfm to virtually zero and doesnt appear to be able to refil the bowl with comoressed air
If i looked back at the compressors own regulator it shows an output still of 6 cfm and the compressor tanks gauge hasnt changed.
If i go back to 'hanging tools off the compressors regulator everything works fine again
What am i doing wrong - probably something so simple/basic OR is it the fact that there are 2 regulators on the system - if so what is the workaround as i have said at the begining the compressors own regulator needs to stay for portability and as i have the Aldi regulator i want to make use of it AND i need the filter/water trap for when i start doing some spraying
Thanks
Mark