BIG COMPRESSOR PERFORMANCE BOOST | No tripped breakers!

I like how this guy works but I'm really here for his verbal Masterpiece of the English language

My wife overheard the dialogue while I was watching this video and she said, "See, this is why I don't let you drink bourbon and make YouTube videos." LOL!

The hose blowing off, and the compressor running all weekend, while I am on vacation at Dysney land, always haunted me. So I wired a relay, in series to the pressure switch, that turns on the contactor. I power the relay with my ceiling lights, when I come in my shop and turn on the lights, the compressor starts, when I leave my shop, the compressor won't start. Works well. If I don't need the compressor I turn off the pressure switch.

"I mean a mouth is a mouth at 3am am I right?" Lmfao.. your humor cracks me up.

If this takes off, I'm blaming you for the loss of my compressor-mandated smoke breaks.

I never would've thought to overclock my compressor. Nice work.

Sweet, gonna have to look into doing this to my old clunker of a compressor.

Man this is genius I would love to have something like this for my smaller compressor! That way when I’m away from the shop tearing down a vehicle to pull an engine, transmission, whatever the case is, I don’t have to wait 30-40-50 seconds for my compressor in-between every other stubborn rusty bolt. I can’t believe no one has figured this out before, but props to you for doing so! Brilliant my friend absolutely brilliant.

i actually built this same deal with a fleet farm air compressor . 80 gallon 17 cfm stock with 5hp 240volt 1phase . i swapped in a Hitachi 3hp vfd and 3 1/2 Hp 3phase Baldor motor with F insulation for high temp . it uses a 3 wire pressure switch for feed back . CFM jumped up to around 24cfm at 90psi 88HZ , i dont use a unloader , it set to 10 second accelaration time . with no issues . its set to ramp HZ up as pressure drops with the PID function and pressure switch . min hz is set to 45hz . works Great with my sand blast cabinet . and can sand blast none stop with 90psi for long as u like . its all in a inclosure with fans for coooling as well as a liquided cooled cylinder head i made out of Air conditioning exchanger and a block of 6061 aluminum its been slowly upgraded over the years

Um...adjust your pressure switch and cut down on the wait time. That's what construction guys do. Framers don't wait. Adjust to 100 cut in and 120 cut out on the wheelbarrow compressors. Also if you overspeed those cheap twin compressor heads they'll bust the rods in no time. Also starting under load with no relief after the cycle will grenade the rods too...

AvE, this is one of my favorite vids of yours, and it has me looking at VFDs online, and eyeing my compressor with disdain. I haven't gotten my hands good and dirty for a living for a long, long time, but watching your videos makes me remember just how satisfying it was to have fixed a thing, or solved a problem, or made something better. Thanks very much for doing what you do. Thanks for sharing with us your knowledge and experience. Thanks for reminding me that any time spent in the shop, is not time wasted. Have a laugh, learn some things, fix some stuff.

This is great other than you just made a $100 compressor into a $2000 compressor.

If this were me, I'd be putting in a PID instruction and controlling to a tank pressure setpoint. WORD TO THE WISE - if you do that, or anything similar that would result in the possibility of the motor running for long amounts of time at slow speed (below 6 to 10 Hz), you may want to upgrade to a fan-cooled motor (i.e. separate fan that runs all the time) to avoid turning the rotor into liquid copper shmoo (tm). Love this shit, keep it up! This Patreon stuff is addictive thanks to you. It's like main-lining hands-on engineering skillz. PHYCK YA!!!

"Those that can't, HR" Never a truer word said.

This is just great. I need this for our pneumatic heat press. No more waiting for it to get up to pressure and no more stupid pressure drops

AvE we need more of this! I need this set up in my shop. Such a great idea. Seriously, why doesn't anyone do this outside of industry?

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AvE december edition "VFD everything" continues

I’m seeing this 2 years later and this is actually a genius idea and it should be capitalized on for mass production

That's pretty much what I had planned to do for my compressor setup. Nice work!