Mike
Is this how you use you Alkin ??
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Mike
If you mean opening drains and allowing to run for a couple minutes or more; absolutely, every time it is used. A lot of very expensive scuba compressors need full rebuilds every year long before they should due to idiots not shutting them down like that. For a commercial place that uses them 7 days a week, much less of a problem, but still bad. For a hobby diver that might shut it off late season improperly, and not run it again till next summer, can be in need of full rebuild with 10 hours on it. Water trapped inside all winter/spring can corrode the living hell out of internals. Water by itself is corrosive, with hydrocarbons and other stuff in the air we breathe that water trapped inside a compressor is somewhat acidic making it real bad. The point of running with drains all open is to cool down the interior of the compressor, so water doesn't condense when it is shut off and cools to ambient. The man I bought my compressor from made a very good living for decades rebuilding low hour bauer's he bought for pennies on the dollar from idiots that ruined them and then selling them. He told all his customers exactly why they always need to shut down like that. His personal bauer, he was a master diver, was 30+ years old with thousands of hours and never opened, he took care of it.
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Agreed, same procedure with Yong Heng system. Desired pressure reached, open both black-knobbed pressure release screws and water coalescing filter drain valve. Run machine few seconds to purge, turn off compressor, leaving water pump and additional external fan running till everything cool to touch. Unlike video, I leave three valves open when compressor not in use. WM
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I bumped my Alkin a little bit, So when it reaches 4,800 PSi , It turns off, I open the two valves on the left lower side , I guess I need to open that third one. But like I said my compressor turns off , So I can't let it run..
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The man I bought my compressor from only had bad things to say about auto shutoffs. In his mind it guaranteed a shorter service life when people allowed them to shut down and not immediately bleed the pressure and restart compressor, immediately being exactly that, not an hour later. There was some rather salty navy language used when he talked about auto shutoffs and the average person.
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