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Description: Take one cheap 12v car compressor (Complete with warnings about overheating); lop off the drive motor and gears, and bolt to a 1/8hp mains tumble dryer induction motor. Done :-D Picture Stats: Views: 1315 Filesize: 284.62kB Height: 768 Width: 1024 Posted by: Hodgkinson at June 01, 2008, 02:00:38 PM Image Linking Codes
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| Hodgkinson Posts:1080 | January 03, 2009, 07:58:43 PM :lol: :-D |
| VooDoo Posts:284 | December 27, 2008, 08:54:40 PM ..WoWo You can sold this to ppl who make "Saw" movie  :-D :-D :crazy: |
| Tension Posts:2034 | December 20, 2008, 12:37:44 AM Yeah but now you cant use it, unless you have an AC supply. No good. |
| Hodgkinson Posts:1080 | June 03, 2008, 03:47:04 PM :-D Unfortunately vacuum motors suffer from the same problem, without the fan they overheat in a matter of seconds. Now with the new motor, the pump is (Or at least sounds) as if it actually runs slower than with the original motor, despite the removal of the reduction gearing. It’s also slightly quieter in operation. |
| Ilwrath Posts:2199 | June 03, 2008, 01:31:14 PM Good Lord... A bit of overkill on the motor, perhaps? :-) I'd fear destroying the pump mechanism. I'd have thought a vacuum cleaner would have been a more appropriate size? But for sure, motor overheating, not a problem anymore. :lol: |
| Hodgkinson Posts:1080 | June 02, 2008, 07:20:37 PM It's a compressor. Just it now runs from mains, rather than with a severely-underrated motor from the car 12v supply as it used to. If you mean, how is it different to the cheap-and-nasty 12v one that was used to build it, well the motor shouldn't suffer from overheating anymore :-) (Albeit the compressor does still warrant a cooling down period from time to time). FYI, Just in case, the big thing with all the copper windings on the right is the mains motor (Under a cover) and the compressor is the small cylinder on the left with the air gauge/line on the end. But you already knew that :-D |
| motorollin Posts:8669 | June 02, 2008, 05:33:28 PM What does it do? -- moto |