Battery operated air compressor --small
Looking for a good, study and dependable small air compressor to fill air bag on my 5th wheel hitch. thanks
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All good advice. This is one area you need to examine the duty cycle of each product. I was suckered into buying a cheap, china freight, high volume air compressor-twice. I am such a fool. The first one failed on the first trip. I used wet rags on the cylinder head to try mitigating the extreme heat the product produced. The second replacement version lasted one tire before it blew the fuse and stopped working entirely. I could find no replacement fuses for it. (35amp) Granted, they were big volume tires. (375x55R16's on 12" wide rims. Lots of volume meaning the pump runs into trouble with heat buildup.)
This is one area where you do not want to try to cheap-out. Via Aire has a good reputation. Luckily, for me, all these small 12v compressors were only a backup position against the CO2 tank. For years I've used various sizes of CO2 tanks( 5#, 10#, 20#) for blowing up tires after being at low pressure in loose sand or bottomless snow. For my conditions, this works the best. Day after day at Moab deflating and reinflating the tires at the trailhead. The trouble is I have to blow up 4 big volume tires, one after the other. Therein lies the problem. Duty cycle. I can get about 30 big tires inflated from 10 pounds or so up to running pressure, one after the other, and fairly fast; faster than any compressor can. It's enough to last 7 days at Moab. Lots of choices here. Choose well.
jefe
This is one area where you do not want to try to cheap-out. Via Aire has a good reputation. Luckily, for me, all these small 12v compressors were only a backup position against the CO2 tank. For years I've used various sizes of CO2 tanks( 5#, 10#, 20#) for blowing up tires after being at low pressure in loose sand or bottomless snow. For my conditions, this works the best. Day after day at Moab deflating and reinflating the tires at the trailhead. The trouble is I have to blow up 4 big volume tires, one after the other. Therein lies the problem. Duty cycle. I can get about 30 big tires inflated from 10 pounds or so up to running pressure, one after the other, and fairly fast; faster than any compressor can. It's enough to last 7 days at Moab. Lots of choices here. Choose well.
jefe
