1990cherokee

So i am thinking of using this harbor fright compressor i used to use for my garage till i upgraded and wire it to be OBA. How can i do this? I was thinkin just cut the plug and wire it to my battery.? Would this work? Give me some feed back.....

rdeskater

this will not work unless by "work" you mean start a fire. your compressor for your home is 120 volt a/c. your jeep is 12 volt d/c. alternating current and direct current components are not interchangeable.

1990cherokee

What if i wire in a thing that i can plug it into i forget the name of it. I have seen them used before.

mnaemark

inverter and you will prob need a large inverter to power the compressor. Prob gonna be cheaper to get a compressor built for a car

tunr4life

get an 750 watt invertor and wire that to your battery and its basicaly plug and play thats the setup i have it works great

1990cherokee

Thanks, in order to wire it to the battery whats a good gauge of wire to use?

okcterror

the more power it needs, the lower the guage. I'd say safe bet is 8 guage

1990cherokee

Okay great thanks, will be doing this mod this week. Will i need a bigger battery?

rockhound23

wouldn't hurt to at least have a deep cycle marine battery...ever think about the other options like an ARB compressor or Vivair one? I guess it depends on what you want to do with the compressor......Inflate tires or run tools or both?

might be as cheap as buying the big load capable inverter

greatwhite

I used my stock A/C compressor. Have a tank in the back and a chuck up front and rear. Heres the tank and rear chuck.

1990cherokee

yea i just dont wanna plum it all, and i have the extra air compressor since i just bought a new one, so i figured why not install it into the jeep, i now it will be enough to run repairs on the trail adn air up. and it wont hurt nothing to run it off the inverter.

retread

before starting your project make sure the compressor will do what you need/ I have an oil less comp .9cfm I don't have elec. spec's I run it off a hard wired 750 watt inverter. previously 250 watt it'll air me up = if I bring a book and lunch

chadattack

holy crap tell me how to do this?!?! using the stock ac compressor i mean.

Gee oh Dee

Moved to chat.

jeep bandit

this is from 2010... i dont think its still going on