What 200 compressor owners said...

Right now its alphabetically ordered, which is fine, but I think it should be ordered by quantifiable participants, where 0-3 participants doesn't really add any discernible data, the compressors with 5+ reported owners likely give a more accurate expected failure rate. JMO! Great data regardless

This is great. Thank you for all the effort you put into this. It would be good to see the data from next year and maybe get more participation. 

Thank you for the effort.



John

Thanks for doing this. It's a great service for folks looking to get a compressor.

Chas

Thanks for the hard work.

Added my experience to survey. Will bring down unbranded yong heng a bit

Right now its alphabetically ordered, which is fine, but I think it should be ordered by quantifiable participants, where 0-3 participants doesn't really add any discernible data, the compressors with 5+ reported owners likely give a more accurate expected failure rate. JMO! Great data regardless

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Ric,

Spot on, good comment and just to expand; in statistics the least sample size considered valid for analysis is N=3 with a small sample size correction of 1, which of course means you’re then looking at only two (2) datum for analysis. If one considers only two values basically it’s a flip of the coin as to which value is going to come up next. On a side note I’d comment that small sample size and subsequent size correction is the primary reason why one should take 5 or more shots over a chronograph or at a given distance to evaluate a tuning or a establish a group. BB Pelletier has commented he feels that ten (10) is the minimum shots to look at shot groupings. Everyone has their own opinion but hell most folks here at AGN simply go shoot and leave the esoterica of statistical analysis to nerds like me (Ha!) who are just learning to shoot!

This is a great compilation that needs to be kept up over time as a dynamic aging data set. I am particularly interested as I’m budgeting for a good compressor next summer. So far a Coltri is my number one choice and I was particularly interested in those data. Most everybody will immediatey recognize that the largest contributions to the data set were the Chinese compressors. Obviously one could infer that’s because they are far more affordable to the base of airgun enthusiasts. If one wanted to really get number nerdy you could go so far as to think through a frequency distribution based on the economics, but as I said that’s number nerdy and I pretty much left that behind when I retired. Lol, although I could be probably a lot more enthusiastic about reviving that skill set when it comes to airgunning. Again a good comment!

George