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Beersngars

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Just got started in this new hobby. So far I have a Benjamin Kratos .25 and a cheapie hand pump. I figured for the amount of shooting I may do, no problem with a hand pump. Wrong. I love shooting this thing! But, the pumping every 40 shots is killing me. After pumping it back up tp to 3000psi, I have to take a 20 minute break to regain my breath to enjoy more shooting. Sooooo, looks like I will need a compressor after all. Reading for 2 days and things are getting more confusing. Here is a list of what I think maybe important to me. Will be filling directly to the gun and estimate maybe shooting 100-150 shots on weekends. I can't shoot at home so when I do get the chance to go I want to shoot rather than work/pump.

1) Budget about $350
2) 110 volt. Don't need or want battery cables
3) Don't want to mess with water cooling
4) Some kind of seperator/dessicant system
5) Parts availabilty for user repairs
6) A unit good enough not to need many parts... LOL

The GX CS1 looks interesting.
 
Anything you buy in that price range without water cooling is doomed to fail in a year and most likely less. Are you prepared to spend $350 per year on replacement compressors? With that limited budget, you need to compromise on the "don't want to mess with water cooling" requirement. Get a Yong Heng and stock up on piston rings and a spare piston. Buy a gold filter with repackable cartridge. Oilless, waterless compressors in the under $1,000 range are over-stressed for the task they are asked to perform. At least a Yong Heng is easy to work on when it breaks.
 
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Beersngars,
Humdinger said it right. I'll include a picture of my Florida garage Yong Heng fill station, though I think members are getting tired of seeing it. Yong Heng cost $272 last year, bought from best-homepro on eBay, it's a Set Pressure Model, but doing it over I'd just get the Hardcover Model. Gold filter is a $60 eBay purchase, came with two plastic (3-media filled) cartridges. Copper-colored coalescing water separator was $125 (eBay) and is recommended for humid environments. The black (cotton-filled) filter came with Yong Heng and blue one (cotton-filled) was purchased when I, as well, thought hand pumping was for me. I pump and shoot at home but would purchase SCBA tank if shooting away. WM
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You apparently have to go to a range or something to shoot but it has 110V available? That would be handier than hooking up to a vehicle.

Target Forge has done several videos on the GSP CX2. It looks like it is pretty much the same as the CX1 except the 110V power supply is seperate for the CX2. Target Forge is stocking parts for the CX2. Unless those parts also work for the CX1, I would lean towards the CX2 just for parts availability. He thinks highly of his CX2s. I have no experience with these compressors but I recommend you review his youtubes and website for more information on them if you are interested.

I use a Yong Heng and use it to fill a 45 minute SCBA tank. When I go to the range I tank the SCBA tank with me. It gives me enough air for more shots than I want to take in a reasonable amount of time at the range. I can fill to the 250 bar limit of most of my guns about half a dozen times and can keep filling after that, just to not as high a pressure. I get 50 to 100 shots per fill depending on the gun. I like this setup a lot because the SCBA tank fills quickly and just about silently. Compressors make noise although the GSP CX2 may make less than the Yong Heng.

Fill times with the CX2 are apparently several minutes to maybe as much as 10 minutes on a gun with a big bottle. Filling with a Yong Heng takes about 1/10th as much time based upon the comparitive tests I've seen. A Yong Heng compressor is not big or heavy, it would not be hard to transport. I saved the sturdy box it came with in case I ever want to move it. You also need a drywall bucket and the lines with a little aquarium pump it comes with. Bulky but not much weight. I made mine a semi-sealed system with a radiator and a couple fans. I normally refill the SCBA tank in one run of about 20 minutes. I could easily put the whole setup in my pickup if I wanted to transport it. If I was doing it regularly I would make some brackets of some sort to hold the pump and bucket setup. Target Forge did a very fancy version of a bucket/radiator/YH setup too. Target Forges setup would be a bit heavy (probably 50 lbs or a bit more) but could easily be transported to fill guns directly.

Good Luck.
 
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Thanks for all the info and advice. Due to my situation, the YH's water system would not work for me. I did contact Target Fordge and he likes the GX CS2, not the CS1 I was looking at. That said, I bought a CS2 off Amazon and added the 4 year warranty. I would have liked the DC power adapter to have been built in, but it's not. Hope it works out with the warranty and all.
 
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