Thread: VIAIR 250C-IG Compressor
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Re: VIAIR 250C-IG Compressor
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Originally Posted by ArtemusMaximus View Post
And here is heat sink design I was working on. ...
Mounting fins to the motor case may work, but most of the heat is being generated in the cylinder, and not in the motor (Viair, for instance, specifically mentions not mounting the compressor upside down, because they find that more heat transfers from the cylinder to the motor.)

What we found is that just having a fan blow on the cylinder head kept the compressor temperature reasonable.

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