Altaros Booster Maximum Overload

I have the same booster but mine had a catastrophic failure just before the 2 year mark. Altros would not honor the warranty to repair it. I have since bought a Hatsan Lightening Compressor, it’s 5 times as fast, it costs less than the Altros when you figure in the cost of a compressor to run the Altros booster and if the Hatsan makes it over 2 years it will have been a much better choice.

If you had to buy a couple of those HF compressors to drive the Altaros then I would agree and go with the Hatsan but for me I had a large stand up that I bought at Sams Club over 15 years ago and that drives it just fine. I did invest about $100 on making a after cooler to remove the water but I have needed that for a long time. 

The Hatsan has an automatic purge which I set for every 15 minutes plus I have a high pressure desiccant dryer between the compressor and the bottle. When I was using my Altros I used 4 desiccant dryers on the low side and 2 desiccant dryers on the high side. The Hatsan is much more cost effective and the air is just as dry. With the Altros I used a 3 thousand dollar commercial shop compressor to run it at a continuous 140 psi and it was dog slow at filling bottles. Altros was great at free advice warranty support but would not repair it when it broke. They would not even allow me to send it back to them for repair.From now on if a company does not have support in the USA they are off my list.