Bought a Hill Ec 3000...

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vmaxpro

vmaxpro

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Hopefully it was a good choice. Reviews seemed decent. It suppose to be here on thursday. Im only filling guns so we’ll see if it lasts! Ive been hand pumping and using a 74cuft tank this whole time and Im about done with it. When your tuning an internal reg all the time and having to degas a bunch of guns it gets old pretty quick! So is anyone on here having good luck with this compressor?
 
These do seem to be well designed, quality compressors. I just got unlucky with mine. With less than an hour of use mine started leaking and therefore not pumping past ~110 bar. No specific leaks in the lines, just something blowing off somewhere. Guess I was on the unfortunate end of the MTBF curve on that unit.

Fortunately I purchased it through PyramydAir so the return was simple. Could have been a simple fix, but I just decided to return mine for refund.

What I liked: Relatively portable, pumped fast enough, electronic control system was well thought out and nice to use, relatively quiet in use.

Hope you love yours and get a long service life out of it! When I bought mine the replacement Hill oil was not really available. I would start searching for some now, and buy enough for at least a couple of oil changes. I like to do my first compressor oil change after the first hour of use, to wash out the junk from break-in.
 
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I was impressed with the HIll EC-3000 compressor until Pyramyd Air increased the already high price of $1,000 to the outrageously high retail of $1,200. No discount codes can be used to buy this compressor. Bear in mind, this compressor is only designed to fill guns directly, not portable tanks. The max fill pressure it is capable of is 4350psi, not 4500. To add insult to injury, now Pyramyd is charging state sales tax on all orders placed with them. 

Adios, Pyramyd Air.
 
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I was impressed with the HIll EC-3000 compressor until Pyramyd Air increased the already high price of $1,000 to the outrageously high retail of $1,200. No discount codes can be used to buy this compressor. Bear in mind, this compressor is only designed to fill guns directly, not portable tanks. The max fill pressure it is capable of is 4350psi, not 4500. To add insult to injury, now Pyramyd is charging state sales tax on all orders placed with them. 

Adios, Pyramyd Air.
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Yea, like an idiot I bought one now instead of when they were 1k ughh. Az sales tax was tough too but atleast shipping was free.
 
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10 hours on mine... purchased in August... Fills guns and more guns and more guns.... takes A LONG time to get to an hour.... I shoot three times a week on average.... built like a tank.... keep the oil levels where they should be... let it run 2-3 min after a fill to cool and this should last you a long while.... it's built like a tank not like the NOOMAD 2 or the new UMAREX pile of garbage that require you rebuild the cylinder after 20 hours... you made a good purchase here :) 
 
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