[Shop-talk] The air saga continues...

[marka at maracing.com (Mark Andy)]

Howdy,

On Tue, 31 May 2011, Randall wrote:
>> If it were me, I'd put a valve on the compressor outlet that gets shut off
>> when I'm not out there and call it a day.
>
> So what type of remotely operated valve would be appropriate?
>
> I don't know much about solenoid valves, but it appears that the 
> inexpensive "piloted" valves always have a pressure drop across the 
> valve, which may not be ideal.  And "non-pilot" valves seem rather 
> expensive.

I have a regular old 3/4" (?? I think?) ball valve on my compressors 
output.

If the compressor is somewhere you can't easily get to it, that obviously 
isn't going to work.

Mark