4:49 pm
Club Member
January 20, 2009
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After the discussion some of us had at the snow patrol regarding an auto shut off tire inflator I did some googling and came across this.
I wonder if it works. It says they are sold out right now.
5:02 pm
May 4, 2004
Offline Cool! Combine that with a multi-tire hose setup and one could air up all four tires to an exact psi.
7:51 pm
Club President
April 2, 2003
Offline Is anyone else ordering it? I would buy one. I wonder if we can get a group purchase discount. I'd buy two!
8:19 pm
May 4, 2004
Offline I like the idea, but not that it requires batteries. I'd be more inclined to use a standard pressure regulator, a liquid filled gauge, and some typical air hose fittings. The cost might be a little more than the inflator, but it should work and not run out of juice in the batteries.
A regulator like this might work nicely - http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1 ... ogId=10053
8:56 pm
Club Member
January 20, 2009
Offline "FAM" wrote: I like the idea, but not that it requires batteries. I'd be more inclined to use a standard pressure regulator, a liquid filled gauge, and some typical air hose fittings. The cost might be a little more than the inflator, but it should work and not run out of juice in the batteries.
A regulator like this might work nicely - http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1 ... ogId=10053
Would that type of setup auto shut-off when the tire is at a set psi?
I'd have to read it again but I think the batteries are just for the led light. It would still auto shut-off when it reached the set psi.
9:06 pm
Club President
April 2, 2003
Offline The battery is only needed for the LED light. Don't use batteries and it still works - just no light.
I'm not interested in the light either. My air will shut off when the back pressure turns off my pressure switch. Then, I'll know it's time to move onto the next tire.
Of course, the next set up is to get 4 and do all the tires at the same time...
9:27 pm
May 4, 2004
Offline "kevheb" wrote: Would that type of setup auto shut-off when the tire is at a set psi?
I'd have to read it again but I think the batteries are just for the led light. It would still auto shut-off when it reached the set psi.
It would prevent the tire from overinflating, but it wouldn't turn off anything on it's own. It would allow your air system to build pressure and you should have a pressure switch to cut off power to the compressor at a certain pressure.
9:34 pm
May 4, 2004
Offline Another idea that would be cool would be to rig up two types of air lines built into the Jeep/Toyota/?. One could be high pressure for tools, setting a bead, etc. The other could have a regulator to limit the pressure to what you want to run in your tires.
For instance, on my Jeep my air tank is pressurized to 145 psi, I've got an airline going through a regulator to my ARB solenoids to reduce the pressure to 95 psi. I could put in another regulator set to 28 psi routed to another quick disconnect for filling tires.
9:50 pm
I missed the discussion on the run, but is there some problem you're trying to address or is this just more of a "wouldn't it be cool if..." type discussion?
9:53 pm
Club Member
January 20, 2009
Offline "Bender" wrote: I missed the discussion on the run, but is there some problem you're trying to address or is this just more of a "wouldn't it be cool if..." type discussion?
It was more of a "wouldn't it be cool if..." discussion. Like how there are deflators that auto stop at a certain psi. I was wondering if there was something similar for an inflator.
11:14 pm
"FAM" wrote: I like the idea, but not that it requires batteries. I'd be more inclined to use a standard pressure regulator, a liquid filled gauge, and some typical air hose fittings. The cost might be a little more than the inflator, but it should work and not run out of juice in the batteries.
A regulator like this might work nicely - http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1 ... ogId=10053
I've done this with a regulator attached 6 inches from the tire and it took 5x the time to fill the tire. I used a shop compressor with large tank so the difference with an OBA is probably less.
12:39 am
Club President
April 2, 2003
Offline "RockinCrawler" wrote: [quote="FAM"]I like the idea, but not that it requires batteries. I'd be more inclined to use a standard pressure regulator, a liquid filled gauge, and some typical air hose fittings. The cost might be a little more than the inflator, but it should work and not run out of juice in the batteries.
A regulator like this might work nicely - http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1 ... ogId=10053
I've done this with a regulator attached 6 inches from the tire and it took 5x the time to fill the tire. I used a shop compressor with large tank so the difference with an OBA is probably less.
This is a good observation. When I get one, I'll air up one tire with the auto shut off and one direct to see what the difference is.
2:47 am
I could not help my self. I went from wouldn't it be cool if.... To I just bought one to try it. I haven't bought a gadget for the jeep in awhile. 🙂
2:52 am
Club Member
July 10, 2003
Offline I'm going to be the only guy on the next run without one 
I used to wheel a lot. . .
4:29 am
"JohnDF" wrote: I'm going to be the only guy on the next run without one
Nah, you have a York, I have CO2. These guys only have time to think about stuff like this because their compressors are so slow. 
I 100% agree with RC on the whole time thing. Seems like it would really slow things down. Plus, I just don't like the concept of spending a bunch of energy to pump something up just to waste that energy by blowing it through a regulator.
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