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Re: Help Calculating time to recharge air tanks
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Originally Posted by Mr V
By time to full charge do you mean starting at 0 psi?
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Yes, we started with the tanks empty. I was looking mostly at peak surge current with the 'scope. A stopwatch would suffice to measure refill time, and that should be much shorter than the 0-120 fill times reported above.
Also, I would expect bigger differences in the compressor comparisons for 100-120 refill times, based on their published flow curves.
BTW, the peak surge transient (50 msec) we observed would not trip a breaker or blow a fuse.
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Last edited by Richard Wallace : 03-02-2015 at 11:24.
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