Originally Posted by
mark mcfarlane
In particular, John's post about unplugging the compressor every day to avoid a runaway compressor-caused fire due an air line leak has opened my eyes. I shall try to get in the habit of shutting off the compressor every day, and also add a new valve at the tank to slow down the effect off my slow leak in the in-wall rapid-air tubing network.
Cheers,
What I did to handle that problem is I put a motion sensor in the circuit. I have my compressor running on 240 volts so the motion sensor controls a contactor (a type of relay) that then controls the 240 volts. If there's no motion, the power is off to the compressor. I figured that a motion sensor was more reliable than me remembering to turn the power off to the unit.
Mike
Last edited by Mike Henderson; 11-25-2019 at 8:02 PM.
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