I know I recently saw an article on the proper way to gang air compressors together but now I can’t find it, even in a archive search. The following month there was a letter from a reader showing a better way. Does anyone recall the issue or how this should be done for best results?
Edited 4/20/2005 6:35 pm ET by stileandrail
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I know of the article and follow up I will try to find them ---IIRC the kicker of the follow up was to install one-way valves on each compressor between the the air tank and the common union of the two lines.
This prevented one comp. from being the workhorse and refilling the other .
Forcing each comp. to contribute 50 percent of the final air delivery.
Mike
Adam Savage---Mythbusters
What kind of compressors do you have that you need to gang together and how many guns are you trying to run?
I'm just trying to figure out why you would want to do this. Are you a framer or roofer and trying to run 6 or 8 eight guns?
Compressors with large tanks can run at least 4 framing guns like I use with no problems but the compressor I use is gas.
Are you trying to gang two small compressors together?
Is this what you were looking for?
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=50290.1
A web search using multiple compressors turned up some information although most applications are industrial.
I saw one guy who hooked up two compressors on a construction site. Two identical twin stack compressors connected to a BBQ size propane tank. Another regulator off the propane tank handled the tool supply lines.