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Got my compressor...now, how to use it?!!

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  • Member since
    November 2005
Got my compressor...now, how to use it?!!
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 20, 2004 9:41 AM
I took delivery of my very first compressor yesterday. It's a sil air 15a exp auto (!) that i got from ABAC uk (very friendly, helpful guys and a quick, first rate service, for future refrence). I'm just waiting on the adapter to strap my badger 155 in.

On the side of the motor however it states that it should be used 15mins on/15mins off yet in the instructions it says that 46 on, 14 off is fine, so far so confusing.

What i'm really wondering about however is whether the timing refers to the time that i have the compressor switched on or rather, the time that the motor is actually refilling the tank.

Sorry if this is one of those questions that someone asks every other week, i didn't see it anywhere else on the forum.

Any help on this, or even general advice about compressors would be great.

thanks,

Rob Crafer
  • Member since
    January 2004
  • From: USA
Posted by MusicCity on Wednesday, October 20, 2004 10:15 AM
It is probably referring to the time that the motor is actually running. Compressors generate a lot of heat, both in the motor and the compressor head, and heat is the enemy of compressors. Most of them have a "Duty Cycle" which is an amount of time that the motor is actually running compared to the time that the motor has to cool down between cycles. Fifteen on / fifteen off sounds about right (50% duty cycle) so I'm pretty sure that's what they mean.
Scott Craig -- Nashville, TN -- My Website -- My Models Page
  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 20, 2004 3:32 PM
One of my Compressors is also 15off/15on, takes a bit getting used to as well as making sure that you got enough time left to do the painting you want.

My new Compressort has an auto-off switch and I don't need to worry about that anymore.
  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Wednesday, October 20, 2004 7:05 PM
I agree with Scott.
Silentaire's compressors along with all silent compressors that I know of have a 50% duty cycle.

Mike

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
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