imwright1985
Contributor
One of my dive buddies has been thinking of building his own fill station and i got to thinking of general layouts for him, now we are wondering if this should work ok. He has a choice between 2 types of pumps for very cheap (both capible of filling tanks to 5000psi) an Oil less and an oiled pump so we were going to go with the oilless. He has a few commercial gas cyls that can be cleaned and converted to banks, the rest is what we have to actually spend cash on.
The layout i was thinking was going to be like this
Compressor to filter to banks, banks to shut off to purge, purge to manifold (psi gauge on manifold) Whips to fill fittings, shut offs on whips.
I dont remember how big his tanks are for the bank and i dont know what size compressors hes got access to so i think we are going to start with a 7 post manifold (1 for inlet, 1 for gauge, plug 3 of them and start with 2 whips and depending on how good his set up works slowly add an extra whip)
my questions are how do you know when to change filters, what filters are good and are we missing anything from our plans?, he is setting this all up in his airconditioned garage so it shouldnt have much humidity going through the pump
Thanks
-Ryan
The layout i was thinking was going to be like this
Compressor to filter to banks, banks to shut off to purge, purge to manifold (psi gauge on manifold) Whips to fill fittings, shut offs on whips.
I dont remember how big his tanks are for the bank and i dont know what size compressors hes got access to so i think we are going to start with a 7 post manifold (1 for inlet, 1 for gauge, plug 3 of them and start with 2 whips and depending on how good his set up works slowly add an extra whip)
my questions are how do you know when to change filters, what filters are good and are we missing anything from our plans?, he is setting this all up in his airconditioned garage so it shouldnt have much humidity going through the pump
Thanks
-Ryan