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Originally Posted by red-beard
Sorry Jeff, but the compressor cylinders get hot as a MF pretty quick. The cylinder exit is usually through a section of the head with a large heat sink with fins.
And SM: definitely have to worry about water drop out as the air cools along the lines, etc. For a football, we're not compressing the air as much as an air tool. And dewpoint is not linear with pressure: see the steam tables, they are the same.
And this is the reason you should check pressure levels on tires after getting them installed. As the air cools down, it will reduce the pressure.
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When you run those for air brushes you don't put a lot of pressure through them either.
You set your regulator for max 30 psi.
I mentioned the condensation as it makes it pretty obvious there is a temperature difference between what comes out of those things and ambient.
One thing I do not recall about them is how they deal with not being used while running. Do they have a blow off valve set up to bleed air off when the line is shut? Or do they just not intake any more air meaning what's in the head just keeps getting hotter?