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Post a picture of it of you can then we can see what set up it is
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Could be the motor is strong enough to overcome the compression, or maybe someone has messed around with the pulleys. What rpm does the motor run at?
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No just the opposite,to start easier would be filling slower, faster filling means higher load on the motor.
Maybe WAS strong enough therefore, if this has worked for 2yrs without a nrv, it must have been giving the motor HELL, as said earlier in this it thread the cap could be feeling its age and now not giving as much start up boost ,
Have you changed the oil yet?
What NRV have you got? it needs to be a proper compressor one, other wise it will overheat and the seal will harden and stop working, also needs the port to pipe up the unloader pipe to the pressure switch as rtb says, also a long length of copper pipe forming a coil would help the pump start up also help cool the air before entering the tank.
ill change the oil tomorrow - i do have some.
Surely you couldn't say if the pulley has been changed it will fill slower - i didn't say if the new pulley was smaller or larger than it should be (because i really dont know)
and yes the valve is off a compressor, with the little pipe outlet for the pressure switch
Surely you couldn't say if the pulley has been changed it will fill slower - i didn't say if the new pulley was smaller or larger than it should be (because i really dont know)
and yes the valve is off a compressor, with the little pipe outlet for the pressure switch
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If there is no non return valve, I don't understand why air isnt gushing from the unloader valve as its fully open when the compressor reaches full pressure
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So is the unloader valve connected ? Do you gets big hiss when it cuts out
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RTB said maybe the pulley has been changed to allow it to start easier because it had no NRV, then you said
if it had been changed to fill faster it would not start easier , they are the totally opposite.
if it had been changed to fill faster it would not start easier , they are the totally opposite.
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No snoop dog, there will be no hiss because the pressure switch lets the air come out of the line to the nrv if it is not piped there will be no hiss.
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Usually on the pressure switch
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Yeah I know that I was just trying work out of the unloaded was working
no idea then, if that thin pipe that goes from the nrv to the pressure switch i assume it wasn't connected, it soon will be though
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I dont think so,- - as the Pressure switch unloads only the head/ feed pressure line from head to NRV, it doesnt unload the input line from the reservoir to the pressure switch diaphragm. it would leak if it was a pilot line to operate an air solenoid unloader .
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as far as I know it was ??
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the delivery pipe goes into the non return valve the same side of the valve as the un loader valve there is only one valve in the non return and hence the unloader would leak air continuously if it was connected
