My new air compressor arrived! With modified active cooling!

Sweet! How tough was it to rig up the fans? I killed my compressor (well, okay, not killed, but maimed) over Mardi Gras. When I get my tax money back I'll have to get a new one. I need one with a tank anyway, to smooth out the pulse.

not hard at all! Just plug it into a old PSU from a computer and you are set to go. I am getting another 92mm fan to cool the side :P I just used double sided tape to to stick it onto the top

You can get AC fans the same size that run on line voltage if you don't have an old computer power supply handy. I'd use them and wire them into the pressure switch so that when the motor comes on the fans come on.

I am jealous though, that's a nice looking compressor.

I did the same thing to my Badger Million-Air compressor.
I used one of the fans that Scott mentioned which runs on 120v.
I wired it into the compressor switch so that it comes on when the compressor is plugged in and runs all the time.



Mike

mike, is that a 120 mm?

I would think using a blower design like the CoolerMaster Jet 7 and replacing the block on the compressor with the heat sink on the jet would yield much better results. Maybe an Asus ice-star (i forgot what it's called, as I'm running thermalright xp 120)

Yes it is a 120mm fan and is probably all I need for this compressor as it has a small motor. If they would just build these silent compressors with an oil recirculating system they would never die. I guess that's why they don't.

Mike