12V air pressure system to clear chips?

[Voicecoil]

Try people like Airpower - I think they do 12/24V compressors - would be worth checking they do enough cfm first though, blowing chips will need a pretty good continuous flow I would have thought. Any reasons why not to use a mains powered compressor? likely to be more common and hence chaeper I would have thought.

[cropwell]

I doubt if a low voltage compressor would have the oomph to give a continuous airflow enough to clear chips. I currently run a Hailea pond pump (quite a big one) to blow away chips, but bear in mind I only have a small ali gantry machine. There is little pressure, but plenty of flow (80L/min). The main advantage is that it is quiet.

I have recently acquired a JunAir 600 for £15, it had issues and losses, but the pump worked OK and I put on a new pressure switch, inlet filter and pump to reservoir pipe. So for <£30 I got a very quiet source of air at 8bar. These compressors are used in Banks as part of the security system. With the closure of branches, they come onto the market and fully working they cost around £60. I am currently constructing an air/coolant pulse programmer and when I have it finished, I will post a thread with the details. As usual (NB Clive) it will be over the top, as I am doing it for the fun of it.

Cheers

Rob-T

[RobC]

I doubt if a powerful enough low voltage compressor would have the oomph to give a continuous airflow enough to clear chips. I currently run a Hailea pond pump (quite a big one) to blow away chips, but bear in mind I only have a small ali gantry machine. There is little pressure, but plenty of flow (80L/min). The main advantage is that it is quiet.

I have recently acquired a JunAir 600 for £15, it had issues and losses, but the pump worked OK and I put on a new pressure switch, inlet filter and pump to reservoir pipe. So for <£30 I got a very quiet source of air at 8bar. These compressors are used in Banks as part of the security system. With the closure of branches, they come onto the market and fully working they cost around £60. I am currently constructing an air/coolant pulse programmer and when I have it finished, I will post a thread with the details. As usual (NB Clive) it will be over the top, as I am doing it for the fun of it.

Cheers

Rob-T

I'll take a look, yeah I'm not expecting massive amounts of air to being forced through, I dry cut and I've got a decent recipe for such so It's not so much like it's got any cutting fluid to push through to remove them.

[RobC]

Try people like Airpower - I think they do 12/24V compressors - would be worth checking they do enough cfm first though, blowing chips will need a pretty good continuous flow I would have thought. Any reasons why not to use a mains powered compressor? likely to be more common and hence chaeper I would have thought.

Simply just based on the noise produced by the regular type, I'd quite like a screw one though as that would be ideal for using my brad guns on! Mains again I'm trying to move away from as I'm limited on outlets and it's a pain for me to access them behind my toolbox so I've been moving over to DC and such recently.