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1). Air Compressors - Helpful Attachments For Air Compressors
Let’s say you finally go to the store and invest in an air compressor. You’ve heard how great air compressors are and how helpful for home improvement they are, and you have decided that, with all the home repairs on your “To Do” list, a compressor will come in handy. Once you bring it home, however, do you know what to do with it? How exactly do you plan to utilize your tank of pressurized air? Perhaps one of a variety of handy attachments will be just what you need to begin your home repairs.
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2). Ingersoll Rand Air Compressors: They’re Everywhere
When a business owner decides to invest thousands of dollars in a compressed air system, he is going to be looking for quality, dependability, and a manufacturer he can trust over the long haul. While Ingersoll Rand has had its ups and downs as a company, it has been in the compressed air system business for over a century, and it pretty much has the market cornered on portable air compressors. For the past few decades, it has dominated portable air compressor sales by 40 and...
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3). What You Need To Know About Compressed Air Systems
Compressed air is used in many operations and processes and as a source of energy for heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) and process actuators and motors. It may also be supplied for low pressure systems and used for pneumatic control. Air can be compressed in several different ways and supplied at varying pressures and degrees of filtration depending on its use.
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4). Seven steps to selecting the right air cylinder.
What do you need to know to select the right air cylinder from the huge variety available in the industrial marketplace? Here is the answer.
How much force do you need to move the object you wish to move?
You'll need to know the weight of the object. Consider what the object being moved is sliding and know that this friction is adding to the load.
Article tags: compressed air, air cylinders, air compressors, air circuits, air valves, air filters, compressors, air filters
5). Air Compressors - How To Choose One
There are three main types of air compressors. Which you need will depend on the air pressure you need and how portable your compressor needs to be.
Reciprocating compressors come in a range from 5 HP to 1000 HP. The smaller compressors are portable, sometimes being mounted on wheels. These may be petrol driven or electrically powered. They compress air by a series of pistons in cylinders.
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6). It's FRL on purpose, folks!
FRL is an acronym for Filter, Regulator and Lubricator, devices used to “condition” the compressed air from a compressor before it gets to your application be that through an air valve to air cylinders, powering air tools and so on.
When called in to troubleshoot a complaint from a client that their compressed air filter, regulator or lubricator wasn’t working, the first response is to ask the symptoms.
Article tags: filter, regulator, lubricator, frl, compressed air, air compressors, air treatment, air preparation
7). Why does water run out my compressed air line every time I turn the air on?
Water. This drives every compressed air user nuts!!! Every time they use an air tool, blow-off gun, or even fill the inflatable air mattress, water appears along with the compressed air.
The water is a problem if the compressed air is moving through a tool that can rust or be negatively affected by airborne particles, and, given enough 'fill-ups and empties' a significant amount of water will appear in anything which you inflate or run with compressed air.
Article tags: water, air line, water in air, cylinder, air cylinder, cylinder speed, speed control, air compressors, compressed air, actuators, fittings, air valve
8). Is it the valve or is it the cylinder; whichever, it's costing you a lot of money?
Reducing air leaks in your plant can save thousands of dollars annually. Compressed air is one of the most costly forms of energy you can use in your plant, of course, it's one of the most versatile, fast and strong too.
When it's "quiet time" in the plant, wander around the machinery and listen. You will often hear the gentle (or perhaps not so gentle) hissing of air escaping from the exhaust port of your air valves.
Article tags: compressed air, air compressors, air circuits, troubleshoot air leaks, air cylinders, air valves, air filters
9). What if there's no power - how do I control my pneumatic circuit?
With the advent of the small PLC's (programmable logic controllers), the Logo or the Pico to name just a couple, controlling pneumatic circuits can be achieved with high reliability, low complexity, and at a relatively low cost with one of the currently available, easy to program controllers.
That's all well and good for the vast majority of applications that occur in a plant environment that offers electricity.
Article tags: air logic, air circuts, compressed air, and gate, or gate, not gate, air compressors, air circuits, troubleshoot air leaks, air cylinders, air valves
10). Don't use a needle valve to control your air cylinder speed!
Many industrial machines using compressed air as an energy source, use air cylinders or other pneumatic actuators to do the actual work.
Compressed air is 'explosive' as it moves from high pressure to low pressure on it's way back to atmosphere. That means when the air valve shifts and air flows to the cylinder, the cylinder piston and rod moves extremely quickly.
Article tags: cylinder, air cylinder, cylinder speed, speed control, air compressors, compressed air, actuators, fittings, air valve