that is a sweet little set up you made. wish you had of done this last year before I threw out My pumper pack that also had a dead battery. just my luck

 

This thing sat for a year dead before i thought about doing this. Got bored and decided to pull it apart to see about getting new battery.

 

First off congrats on the awesome setup! One question/concern though. How hot do those little compressors get when they've been running for a while? You don't have much airflow behind that pannel and I'd hate to see you melt something, or need to USE the fire extinguisher. I know those things have lots of vents in their original packaging for cooling, but I don't have real experience using them.

 

This little compressor motor has a very neat feature, it has a thermal protection switch mounted to the motor housing and in line on the negative wire.
She gets too hot, motor shuts off until cool. I may try to route some more airflow to it in the future, but im the meantime, i know im protected from damage by that switch.
Thanks for the comments!

 

It will be interesting to see how it all turns out! It would be kind of ammusing though if you get one tire pumped up and have to wait for 10 minutes before the thing turns back on so you can pump up another tire. You'll have to do a full test when you get it all buttoned up and let us know how it goes!

I don't remember if you said before, but what is your inverter from? Looks like you pulled that out of another unit too. Oh, and the half moon plate you have the plugs mounted in, where did that come from. It looks like the piece where I have the ash tray on my 2000, or where the heated seat switches would be, if I had them.

 

All of the components in the panel are from the booster pack, the half moon panel was the front of the booster pack unit, the compressor was in the back. The led light was mounted on top of the unit. It was more or less a transfer to the cut panel and making sure wires would reach. That half moon is much bigger that the ashtray area.
At the beginning of the article, i mentioned that the air wouldnt be anything spectacular, but...even if i have to wait 10 minutes between tires, thats better than trying to source some air when i have none. ;-)

 

MAN O MAN thats looks amazing! Great use of the space! Kinda wanna tear my compressor apart and do this...

 

yah i had mine sitting around for years. Alway thought I would fix it then last summer my wife and I bought our first house and in the moving process a lot of my "junk" as the wife calls it was thrown away while I was at work. but now I can show her your thread on this and tell her how much she cost me cause now I have to buy an AC unit and install and convert to have air and maybe next time my "junk" will not disappear

 

Man, i feel your pain! if i don't hide something and it's not getting used, it's instant trash in my wifes eyes, haha. I'm not sure how my booster made it through un-scathed.

 

i like it...nice work

 

Definitely! I was just getting at the possibility that if more air flow for cooling is needed for cooling, you don't want to short yourself from everything you can get out of that little guy.

As for "Junk" disappearing...as long as I keep it off the kitchen counter, and out in the garage, The wife and I are OK. She doesn't screw with my stuff in the garage and I don't screw with her stuff in the kitchen (she's a chef, btw).

 

Agreed! If it does overheat to the point where its rediculously un-usable, i'll address those gremlins. I'll have a much better picture when i get power back to it.
As for the wife, i found the problem. I always use the kitchen counter for my projects, lol.

 

I want to know how you ran power back to the whole set up? I would like to do something similar. I have a portable Smittybuilt compressor so I would like to have a battery hookup to in the BACK of the truck to hook it to without opening the hood. I also have an inverter that would be nice to have hooked up in the rear also.

 

I havn't run power back yet, but it will most likely be large gauge audio power wire and eventually, i contemplating putting a second battery in the back on a disconnect switch.

 

as for cooling a couple large computer fans could probably suffice.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811999612

black and red wires are your power and ground, the yellow lets it be controlled by the motherboard so it's not needed.

the fans use a 12v power source but you could easily run two of them hooked up together off of the standard connections provided and then hook one of them up to the power source. im not exactly sure how hard it is to get 12v back there with the rest of your stuff but it's just a suggestion