So I just picked up a used quincy qt5 and managed to get some help moving it into the basement. My existing compressor is plumbed in in a corner, a 20 gallon harbor freight unit which has honestly been great.
Anyway I have the compressor plumbed to the garage and some accessible ports on my basement shop. About half of the air I use is outside and going up and down stairs is annoying, so it's the compressor kicking in in the middle of the night with 2 (soon to be 3) kids sleeping.
The compressor is a 5 🐎 with starter, but no off button. It was made to run in a factor ask the time and based on the hour counter I picked up with it that had 21429 hours on it, this is what it did...
I'm thinking that Id like the ability to start it from the garage, and perhaps have a 2 hour timeout or something on it cause I forget to turn my current one off half of the time. Maybe a remote tank pressure reading as well.
While we're at it, if like to be able to put out in a standby mode where the output is disabled so it doesn't drain down overnight. Probably some solenoid valve on the output, maybe with another switch.
Is there anything handy or there that may do this? Otherwise I could look into some arduino based thing. If I diy, are there some good low power options that won't be a substantial psu to run? The solenoids I have find are all quite power hungry at 20 or so watts.
At the moment I'm mostly concerned about interrupting the fill cycle and bypassing the unloader.