Cole2534
Diamond
- Joined
- Sep 10, 2010
- Location
- Oklahoma City, OK
After being enlightened to the existence of a quiet yet moderately priced scroll compressor I decided to ditch the noisy Kobalt Lowe's special.
The unit was packaged in good fashion, secured to the pallet under the crate with thru-bolted brackets. It was totally assembled sans and electrical plug for the 10/3, 6' long electrical cord. Prior to startup I checked the oil in the reservoir and it was perfectly topped. This required removing the steel cover that protects the guts. The tube runs were well laid out, all nice and tidy. The lube oil reservoir is sizable, 3qts IIRC, and includes a drain valve with vinyl tube so that you may easily change oil without mess. There's also an oil cooler, a nice finned aluminum heat exchanger but no signs of a thermostat. The oil system also has dedicated filtration for particulates and moisture.
The 30 gal tank has a 1/2" ball valve at the main delivery port and another ball valve at 6:00 for a drain.
After some wiring I turned it on and it rumbled to life with quite a racket, much more than I anticipated. After some fiddlin it was some loose sheet metal that was easily remedied. Then you could tell how quiet the unit was- very quiet. It filled from 0 to 145psig in 2:53s, slightly under the 3min claimed in the manual.
There's a couple mods I'll do to it.
1) Add piping to the drain valve so that the valve is easily accessed. It also serves as a sacrificial place for moisture to collect that isn't the bottom of your tank.
2) Put a plug on the lube oil tank drain. Valves are handy, but they all leak.
3) Make a bracket to hang my filter/regulator and a manifold.
So far I'm excited, it's wonderfully quiet for 12.7scfm and it came on quality casters for ease of motion.
After some useage I'll update the thread with complaints, etc.
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The unit was packaged in good fashion, secured to the pallet under the crate with thru-bolted brackets. It was totally assembled sans and electrical plug for the 10/3, 6' long electrical cord. Prior to startup I checked the oil in the reservoir and it was perfectly topped. This required removing the steel cover that protects the guts. The tube runs were well laid out, all nice and tidy. The lube oil reservoir is sizable, 3qts IIRC, and includes a drain valve with vinyl tube so that you may easily change oil without mess. There's also an oil cooler, a nice finned aluminum heat exchanger but no signs of a thermostat. The oil system also has dedicated filtration for particulates and moisture.
The 30 gal tank has a 1/2" ball valve at the main delivery port and another ball valve at 6:00 for a drain.
After some wiring I turned it on and it rumbled to life with quite a racket, much more than I anticipated. After some fiddlin it was some loose sheet metal that was easily remedied. Then you could tell how quiet the unit was- very quiet. It filled from 0 to 145psig in 2:53s, slightly under the 3min claimed in the manual.
There's a couple mods I'll do to it.
1) Add piping to the drain valve so that the valve is easily accessed. It also serves as a sacrificial place for moisture to collect that isn't the bottom of your tank.
2) Put a plug on the lube oil tank drain. Valves are handy, but they all leak.
3) Make a bracket to hang my filter/regulator and a manifold.
So far I'm excited, it's wonderfully quiet for 12.7scfm and it came on quality casters for ease of motion.
After some useage I'll update the thread with complaints, etc.
Sent from my SM-G973U using Tapatalk