Member postings for Anthony Kendall

At least two of the suppliers are saying the key ring on the safety valve is against EU regulations and are supplying the same compressor without the key ring! Good advice from Dave.

The Hyundai is not silent, just pretty quiet. A 50L direct-driven compressor is quoted at 97dB.
I had a Wolf belt-driven 50L and its sound level was quoted 80db.
The Hyundai is quoted 60dB.
The sound level halves every 6dB going down, so the Hyundai is as Gary says, acceptably quiet. Just one caveat, the others have 14 CFM output and the Hyundai is 11.5, but, for me, it's worth it.

You can go down to 40dB with the Bambi BB50D, but it costs nearly double and gives only 3.5CFM - but it may suit your needs!

Difficult - I think Mr. Edmund Blackadder has the patent.

Maybe the poster was being just a little flippant but using thicker low-loss cables than thin bell wire can improve the listening experience. Paying £40/m is your choice and if you like the result, that's fine you can spend your cash on what you like without comment from me. Similarly, I can have an opinion for me, and for me, I think it is very poor value for money - and yes, I have tested it all out.

I think some might interpret this as willy-waving.

Being a simple person, I like to look at it like this.

Digital signals are decodeable providing noise added does not approach the amplitude of the digital signal such that it is not possible to reliably distinguish between a nought and a one.

The length of the cable will have an affect - as distance increases, the amplitude of the wanted signal decreases and the noise gets proportionally greater, depending on the environment.

Thus, any cable should be low loss and screened.

To answer the OP - unless you are going to send signals to your mate's house down the road, the normally available screened cables will suffice. This should cost no more than 2 quid per metre. It might even get you to your mate's house as well!

From memory they work on the curie point tocontrol temperature and are therefore magnetic.

Curie point, also called Curie Temperature, temperature at which certain magnetic materials undergo a sharp change in their magnetic properties.

Gary, yes each output has sliding valves - difficult to see on the pics.
All the fittings are ¼BSP.
Dave's solution is good though, especially if you have hands like bunches of bananas like I do

If you are interested in the silent type and can accommodate 24L instead of 35L, this might be a better bet for around the same price.

Depends what you need it for - as always.

In my opinion there is good back-up and it is ready to go.

I have first hand experience - I have the 50L version which is ideal for me.

Good point. We put so-called dud batteries in a box ready for recycling, mainly AAs. Next stage is for me to go through them with an Avo. Around 30% of AAs will usually produce in excess of 2A short circuit current - certainly useable for many applications.

Yes, I have been caught with stickers on batteries. Once bitten and all that!

Yes, good point about the straw - also useful for potato graves or clamps and better for stock bedding. Combine straw was/is just a mangled mess.
In my area they used the Field Marshall tractor, started with a 12 bore cartridge, which just sounded beautiful. The threshing machines were Foster and had to be levelled using a built-in spirit level. Oh well - back to the prologue.

Edited By Anthony Kendall on 25/02/2021 09:16:35

Suggest you don't know that - you only think that because nobody complains - probably because, hopefully, they have more important things in their lives..

That said, the forum is free and run by Neil (I think) and the moderators and they can do what they like with it.
Accepted, a forum has to have moderators, reasons should be obvious..
If people do not like anything they can leave (hopefully without making a fuss).
If moderators find the burden too much - don't do it. Don't expect people to be grateful - the world works differently.

I can't see a problem here - I can only see navel-gazing.

Because I know they do!

A great deal of truth in that.
You are unlikely to buy one of the MCBs in question from RS or Farnell. You will pay more but, at my age, I should realise by now, you get what you pay for (mostly!).
This applies to my thermostat really.

I have a bigger problem with buying software driven stuff - you only find out what it really does, after you get it, and it's no good asking - I think I am just an old git asking awkward questions, talking to a pimply-faced youth with shallow knowledge - but that's another story.

Edited By Anthony Kendall on 07/02/2021 11:12:05

Not quite Steve, but I am wary of the spec in many cases.
I bought a thermostatically controlled mains switch which was rated at 16amps (3.8kW). The appearance suggests not but...
I ran it with a load of 2kW and the functionality was fine for a while, then the photo says all - not to be left unattended!
I find much of the Chinese stuff works fine unless you start to get over, say, 50% of its rating the switched dc so-called PWM modules are a case in point. Thus, I often only get a bargain if I use Chinese stuff and beef up the output i.e. I could only use the thermostatic switch at 3kw if I use the output to operate a properly rated switch, either solid state or contactor/relay.

Perish the thought!

Now everyone has had a fair crack about reservoirs, is anyone else concerned about the quality of the output fittings on most of the available new compressors?

Having had a pressure switch failure, I removed the whole assembly from the reservoir, breaking a casting in the process. This enabled me to examine it - the body was made of what some call muck metal and it was pretty easy to prize off pipes branching from the main stem, at the joints.
Looking for a replacement, I found the whole assembly, including switch, two gauges, regulator and the tree all ready to screw into the reservoir, all for about 12 quid delivered - they are all over the net!
Having looked at what came off, the switch looks reasonable quality, but the remainder seemed just crap.

All that said, I decided to use a new switch and mount it using decent fittings. Probably, if the switch had not failed, the whole lot might have carried on forever - as long as I had not caught anything on it!

You probably helped make my bike.

NotDoneItYet - I think you need a new wife.
How did you manage to marry someone who does not have a degree in physics?
I bet the lust was uppermost in your mind

Edited By Anthony Kendall on 25/01/2021 13:52:58

I actually would like one - in order to find out.

I think my problem is I change suppliers too often for one of them to get round to fitting one.

Well done Oldiron.

Good to see people still care.

I think that might be true of at least the NHS procurement department who let down the front line staff with poor supplies of PPE - I think they were totally incompetent and, somehow managed to blame the government for it all.

Edited By Anthony Kendall on 16/01/2021 09:03:34