Hobby Gear 17011 Small Air Compressor

• This product is made from high quality materials, and it is designed for lasting performance
• Add the ultimate scale feel to your crawler or other hobby related projects
• 1/10th scale Small Air Compressor

There's no description for this item. Is it just a toy or is it an actual air compressor?

if it is an air compressor, what else do I need to buy so i can use it?

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SPT WA-9020E 9,000-BTU Portable Air Conditioner with Remote Control

I have central air, but my bedroom upstairs is usually 5-10 degrees warmer than the other bedrooms (vaulted ceiling). This product works perfectly even though the room is much larger than 250sq ft. This portable AC only costs 50 cents a day to run, considerably less than running the central air. It's quieter than I expected and the air is very cold. The only thing I don't like is the instruction manual just not enough info. The exhaust hose must be mounted properly to the outside through a window. All portable AC units create a vacuum in the room and if the exhaust hose is not practically air tight, more warm air from outside will come in than cold air blowing out. I have had it for a week now and it has yet to need the water reservoir emptied.

This item is not worth it. It takes hours to cool down my 100 sq ft room. I have a 5,000 btu window unit that kicks butt compared to this one. Also, not convenient at all. You need to place a drip pan underneath to catch the water and it only allows a 1" space at the base. I had to build a 4" platform to lift the unit high enough to sit a basin at the bottom to catch all the drip without having to empty it every 1 1/2 hours.

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this air conditioner has one filter which is easily removed for cleaning purposes, but the intake filter is completely hidden and cleaning it entails disassembling the unit, removing the case, just to access the filters. What a nightmare.

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This 9000BTU AC is supposed to cool a 250 square foot room, so I thought it'd be more than enough for my 190 square foot bedroom. When I turned it on, I was sure it would make things cool pretty quickly, because it was very loud. . . my wife and I called it the "jet engine" during the brief time before we sent it back. Instead it was only able to cool the room by about 3-4 degrees, even when I let it run all night. I tried it for three nights before returning it, and one morning when I woke up, it was actually cooler outside the house than it was in the bedroom where the AC had been running full blast for about 12 hours. Pathetic!

I replaced this unit with a 6000 BTU window unit by Frigidaire. Even though the Frigidaire is only 2/3 the BTU rating, it makes less than half as much noise and was able to cool my fairly small bedroom from 100+ and humid (we're in the middle of a major heat wave in the Northeast right now) to about 72 degrees in about 90 minutes. Needless to say, the 6000BTU replacement will cost a lot less to run as well. . .

Also, I know some people don't care about this kind of thing, but this Sunpentown AC is just incredibly ugly. From the photo I wasn't really sure if it would look cool and futuristic in person or clunky and overbuilt. Guess what. . . it's the latter! It just looks junky and designed by a twelve-year-old who was trying to draw a Camaro instead of a piece of furniture that's supposed to look fairly decent in your house. Most appallingly, and although it doesn't look so bad in the small photo online, that beige insert for the louvers looks like it came from some twenty-year-old piece of office equipment (remember when everything was the same hideous beige?) and it's totally out of place with the silver/gray plastic used everywhere else.

I had a portable AC by Maytag that lasted about 7 years and worked very well, but this Sunpentown I bought to replace it is a terrible failure in all respects: ugly, the loudest air conditioner I've heard since I was a kid in the 1980s, and it doesn't cool worth a damn.

The only nice thing about the entire experience is that I bought it from Amazon, so it was incredibly easy to return! Thanks, Amazon, for being so freaking awesome. . .

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In April 2011, I purchased a Sunpentown (SPT) air conditioner for $450. I ended up not using it last summer and stored it, unopened in its box, until a month ago. Right out of the box, it didn't work. After trading emails with a customer service representative James who after 3 rounds of email told me that it doesn't matter that the product was defective out of the box. I asked to speak with a manager and received a call from Mike, who told me that the product is out of warranty so there is nothing they can do, that it's not worth repairing a window unit and that I should either "junk it or sell it for scraps." I asked him if Sunpentown really has no problem manufacturing and selling such shoddy products and he said "It's been a year lady. Nothing I can do." Sunpentown makes bad products that don't work. Sunpentown is unwilling to stand by its products. My recommendation is for you to save your money and purchase another product, one made by a company who has integrity.

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Master Flow Q90 150 psi Heavy Duty Air Compressor

• Heavy duty air compressor
• Maximum working pressure 150 PSI
• 30 minute duty cycle
• Overheating protection circuit
• Complete with carrying cse

I bought this compressor because my buddy had good performance with a Q89 compressor. I did not realize the performance increase from the Q89 to the Q90 was so vast. We both run 38 x 12.50 x 15 tires on our Jeeps. The Q89 takes three minutes to pump each tire from 6 PSI to 30 PSI. The Q90 takes only two minutes per tire. I love the performance.

Three issues with the compressor:

1) The compressor draws about 40 amps from the battery, if you have the engine off while pumping up four tires, the engine is slow to crank. If you pump up eight tires, the Jeep needs a jump to get started. I may be experiencing battery end-of-life, but I have learned to let the engine run during tire filling. Running the engine while pumping runs the compressor measurably faster and significantly reduces refill time.

2) The compressor head and outlet pipe get very hot during use. The handle is too hot to handle after pumping up four 38 inch tires. The hose disconnect is too hot to handle with bare hands after pumping up two 38 inch tires. The plastic hose supplied with the kit melted next to the hose disconnect. It did not fail, but the distortion makes it look like it is going to fail. I replaced it with a rubber hose that handles the heat much better.

3) The screw on valve attachment was rather restrictive. When I replaced the plastic hose with the rubber hose, I also replace the screw on valve attachment with a NAPA clip on inflation valve. The compressor now runs cooler, draws less current, fills the tire faster, and it is faster to move from tire to tire around the Jeep.

About half the people that have used my compressor want to buy one to replace the one they have now.

One thing about my application: I pump my tires up to only 30 PSI, therefore the 150 PSI capability is not required. The design could be improved by having a user adjustable cutoff switch to turn the compressor off when a final pressure is reached. If the compressor is running and forgotten while the engine is off, then the tire will be unsafely overinflated and the battery will be dead.

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