battery air compressor

If you have any "cordless" battery power tools, check if the manufacturer also has an air compressor in their range. Since (I assume) you would already have suitable batteries, the compressor should be cheaper as a "body only" purchase.

I use Makita power tools, and the 18v compressor is a good solid tool (like the rest of the range).

Looked for a Lidl one but there doesn't seem to be one at the moment.

My Makita batteries are very near end of life.

Cheers

Dave R

Most tyre inflators work off the 12v socket in a car saves having to lug a battery around. The only advantage I can see for a battery version is if you want to inflate something away from the car. My ancient Halfords one plugs into the 12v socket and does a pretty good job when it comes to topping up but can be a bit slow on a badly deflated one as in a recent puncture, but I believe they are all similar in that respect. With my car not having a spare wheel but an emergency inflator kit, I believe if you leave off the gunk bottle the machine can be used to inflate tyres normally, I have not tried it to compare with the trusty Halfords inflator.

Richard

I'm careful to only use inflators while I have the engine running, one time the care only barely started after using one.

a neighbour has a combined power pack/inflator/torch (smaller than a cooks match box) which he keeps on a motorbike under the pillion.

My AA one looks a bit beaten up

I had a Honda that cme with a bottle of gunk and inflator, quite a nice open-frame one, wish I had kept it when I sold the car really, the gunk was zero use the one time I had more than a tiny leak.

At a time when my battery was quite old, the car wouldn't start after about ten minutes use of the pump. The cable on them is not overkill, they take of the order of twenty amps depending on the current tyre pressure.

I have a starting battery, and from then on I have run the pump from that, then topped up the charge.

I standardised on Ryobi quite a few years ago. They have a good compressor for tyres.

David snipped-for-privacy@btinternet.com wrote in news:lslfolFt336U2 @mid.individual.net:

It was only last week that they were available. They are very guilty of pulling the ads off their site when they are still available in-store so worth a look there, particularly in a bigger store. Bear in mind that my negative experiences described in that thread relate to a Lidl device, albeit in Scotlandshire in sustained sub-zero temperatures but on a modern, well maintained car.

Ah, looking again I see it claims improved low tempreature performance by the use of Lithium-Cobalt(III)-Oxide (LiCoO2) batts over Lith-ion so may be worth a punt if you find one.

Here's a copy of the (deleted) page in case it helps:

That's going to be the financial hit . . .

Hmm, that's saying it uses lithium iron phosphate (LFP). LFP has worse cold weather performance than lithium ion (of which LiCoO2 is a type). Since they don't actually have coherent sentences I'm not sure what they're on about.

There are some battery packs with both types, where they want the longevity of LFP with the cold weather performance of LiCoO2. They're probably expensive.

Theo

As an aside: I have used a bicycle stand pump to top up a tire, one that's about

No batteries, no cold problems, no "no charge", no loud noise -- it is slow but it gets there!

Thomas Prufer

So does a heart attack

Theo <theom+ snipped-for-privacy@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in news:24s* snipped-for-privacy@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk:

You're quite right, my unfortunate misread and not a superior cold weather product at all.

Thanks for all of the replies. Particularly the suggestion of buying a compressor compatible with existing batteries. I’d stupidly not considered it and I’ve now done exactly that.

Nige

I used to have one which had a 17Ah SLA battery in it, jumpstarter and compressor for car tyres. The battery never seemed to have a long life, even when occasionally maintained at 13.8V. Today's Lithium rechargeable ones might be better.

Since there's always a car battery nearby when pumping up the tyres, I switched to a compressor which runs off a cigar lighter socket, and that's been much better.

A bit of thread drift perhaps? I was looking for an air compressor which used my existing Lidl drill batteries. Much like the other options described up thread.

Cheers

Dave R

P.S. there was a Lidl jump starter pack for £30+ the other day. Didn't check if it was also a tyre inflator.