How hot is too hot?

[PerkyVal]

I live in Wisconsin so extreme heat usually is a transient thing, but as the 9th circle has risen up to engulf the state for a week or so, I'm a tad concerned about running my Daystate LC110 compressor.

Temps here will be 90 to 96 with dew points above 70 the next 3 or 4 days. I'm not sure how much shooting I'll be doing, but I usually I need to refill my tanks every few days.

What do we think?

 

[Funshine]

I am down south and its always too hot here. Today its going to be in the 90's, too.

 

[Centercut]

Coltri recommends if temperature is over 45 C that air conditioning is used. That's 113 F.

Mike

 

[frank320]

should not be an issue. If you are concerned, split the fill into partial fills - Fill 60%, stop and let it cool down, then complete the other 40% fill 30 mins later.

 

[PerkyVal]

Thanx guys!

I wont worry too much then

 

[Hatmike]

Iam in Orlando. I fill inside compressor is in laundry room. Gets A/C so I don't worry

 

[marflow]

put some fans on it, if you had a infrared thermometer gun you could get readings at high day time temps and low temps and see if the compressor changes a great deal

but fan could help at any temp

 

[airgunmike56]

With my Sheldon compressor 

I try not to fill up tanks when its super hot , Over 100 degrees, but it only takes 15 minites to fill my great white from 2000 to 4500 PSI.

Also wait until the humidity is below 10%

Mike

 

[18.13]

It's been 14 years since the humidity been below 10% here.

 

[Matt247365]

I live in Wisconsin so extreme heat usually is a transient thing, but as the 9th circle has risen up to engulf the state for a week or so, I'm a tad concerned about running my Daystate LC110 compressor.

Temps here will be 90 to 96 with dew points above 70 the next 3 or 4 days. I'm not sure how much shooting I'll be doing, but I usually I need to refill my tanks every few days.

What do we think?

That's a lot of shooting!

 

[2fast2furious]

Are you filling your tanks in direct sunlight or what? Heat shouldn't be a problem unless you are leaving your compressor and tank right in the sun. My compressor is indoor and I never had a problem filling my tanks or guns even in the hot summer time.

 

[Bigragu]

Wait till the evening time to fill.

 

[Peskådot671]

Wait till the evening time to fill.

This lol

 

[Rodeo]

Val you just need to buy LOTS of tanks and fill them all in the winter.

 

[PerkyVal]

Val you just need to buy LOTS of tanks and fill them all in the winter.

I have quite a few, but I have 2 that I favor, and my Daughter has one she likes, and since she has a new gun well be shooting even more.

I'll have to start robbing banks to pay for our pellets soon.

 

[GBGUNNER]

1. air dryers 2. cooling fan for the compressor. 3. try and fill indoors assuming you have A.C.

 

[Guest]

Not sure if you saw https://www.airgunnation.com/topic/daystate-lc-110-thermal-images-warning-large-number-of-images/ but if you end up doing a spot thermometer I recommend you aim for the final compression stage -- was the hottest point in my testing/sampling.

 

[PerkyVal]

Not sure if you saw https://www.airgunnation.com/topic/daystate-lc-110-thermal-images-warning-large-number-of-images/ but if you end up doing a spot thermometer I recommend you aim for the final compression stage -- was the hottest point in my testing/sampling.

I had seen that, and it's the reason I always run the compressor with no load for a couple minutes after filling.

I also run it for at least a minute before I even start filling a tank, although that may not be as important

 

[bubblerboy64]

Not sure if you saw https://www.airgunnation.com/topic/daystate-lc-110-thermal-images-warning-large-number-of-images/ but if you end up doing a spot thermometer I recommend you aim for the final compression stage -- was the hottest point in my testing/sampling.

I had seen that, and it's the reason I always run the compressor with no load for a couple minutes after filling.

I also run it for at least a minute before I even start filling a tank, although that may not be as important

I think this is critical and perhaps not filling the tank to their maximum limite. The compressor really works hard getting that last 10 bar. At least mine does. My 110 is down for repairs and I am curious as to what has caused the trouble. If and when I get it back I’m going to baby it some. Fill more often not to the maximum pressure. Just my thoughts

 

[Guest]

I think this is critical and perhaps not filling the tank to their maximum limite. The compressor really works hard getting that last 10 bar. At least mine does. My 110 is down for repairs and I am curious as to what has caused the trouble. If and when I get it back I’m going to baby it some. Fill more often not to the maximum pressure. Just my thoughts

There is where I am at and the approach I've taken -- I'm using it to fill a 90 cu-in Ninja bottle w/EZ valve. I do a lot of shooting and I get about 4 fills off the bottle before I have to refill/top-off. That's about an hour of shooting before I need to spend another 10 minutes to refill the bottle -- so completely reasonable for my use case. My goal is to keep the duty cycle down by not going with a larger bottle. The FLIR images I took were just using my 90 cu-in bottle so I'm not sure what an extended runtime looks like and what the equlibrium point is for maximum temperature versus effective cooling.

I've never really seen any duty cycle information regarding the LC-110.