M.B. Naegle
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 7, 2011
- Location
- Conroe, TX USA
South Texas is typically pretty wet, but this cold thing is not common! It got down bellow zero last night and this morning there's no compressed air. The compressor is outside our building on the west side under an awning. The building is well insulated and was nice and warm when we came in, but the compressor itself and the first 10' of pipe are not climate controlled.
Checked all the valves and breakers (compressor gets shut down at night). The tank gauges show full pressure, but the condensation drains all have nothing coming out. All we have is a puff of air coming out of the air nozzle of a VMC that's closest to the compressor. When we put the system together we put all the pipes on an incline sloping back into the compressor tank, but i'm guessing there is a low spot along the pipe outside with enough stationary water that it froze and blocked the pipe.
It's simple science, so I guess I'm just whining, but anyone else ever dealt with this?
Checked all the valves and breakers (compressor gets shut down at night). The tank gauges show full pressure, but the condensation drains all have nothing coming out. All we have is a puff of air coming out of the air nozzle of a VMC that's closest to the compressor. When we put the system together we put all the pipes on an incline sloping back into the compressor tank, but i'm guessing there is a low spot along the pipe outside with enough stationary water that it froze and blocked the pipe.
It's simple science, so I guess I'm just whining, but anyone else ever dealt with this?