Nope...but I've been turning the dryer on, just like I did during the warmer months.do you have moisture coming from your air lines? :flipoff2:
That's a good point...when I'm using it to blow my skirt up, I might prefer a little moisture. :shaking:Depends what you plan to use the air for :flipoff2:
Right--maybe I wasn't clear with my question. I want clean dry air, no matter what. What I'm wondering is if the cold temps will do the same thing as powering up the air dryer.Just test the air on a piece of paper.
Compressors will always make some moisture and, if you're plasma cutting, the cleaner and drier the better anyway.
:laughing: I didn't know you swung that way!That's a good point...when I'm using it to blow my skirt up, I might prefer a little moisture. :shaking:
After it comes out of the tank, it goes through the air dryer, which cools the air so the water condenses in the separator. (right? That's how I understand it works, anyway...) If those coils are cooled by the compressor, or cooled by the cold air around it, they should perform the same function?:laughing: I didn't know you swung that way!
The temperature is less of a deal to the air compressor -- remember, it is getting hot, huffing and puffing to compress those air molecules closer to each other. Any moisture in the air will go into the tank and cause you problems later. Once the water is in the tank, it may actually condense out easier as the tank cycles warm/cool, but pressure is a larger factor than temperature, with respect to water vapor.
Test it out on that skirt and see. :flipoff2:
Randii
I had no idea until I just looked it up....the Nat. Weather service says we average around 70% for the month of December. (Salt Lake City, UT)Whats the relative humidity? This time of the year it is dry enough I don't run my dryer.
Dunno. Put your hand (carefully) on the coils and see whether they are warm (not condensing the moisture inside) or cold (effectively condensing). Heck, you might even be able to just look at the condensate outflow from the air dryer... if you're pumping much water out, you'll know whether the air is being dried.After it comes out of the tank, it goes through the air dryer, which cools the air so the water condenses in the separator. (right? That's how I understand it works, anyway...) If those coils are cooled by the compressor, or cooled by the cold air around it, they should perform the same function?
Right--maybe I wasn't clear with my question. I want clean dry air, no matter what. What I'm wondering is if the cold temps will do the same thing as powering up the air dryer.
In the meantime, I keep turning it on when I run the plaz table, just to be "safe". :grinpimp:
You need to think of things in Dew Point.Whats the relative humidity? This time of the year it is dry enough I don't run my dryer.
That's pretty much where my fuzzy logic was trying to take me--makes sense!You need to think of things in Dew Point.
If the temp outside is in the 20's your MAX dew point is in the 20's.
A refrigerationn air dryer isn't going to remove any more moisture more than that.
If you using refrigeration to remove moisture you are cooling down a surface so the water will condense on it and be drained away. So with refrigeration you aren't going to achieve a dewpoint below 32 degrees (if any moisture was to collect it would turn to ice and require a defrost cycle).
Dessicants can get you in to much lower humidities.
I do have a water separator right at the plaz table, but since it's after the refrig. dryer, a good long run of copper pipe, and a desiccant dryer...it doesn't really ever get any water in it.Do you run water separators on your airlines?, especially on the plaz table. Check those to see how much water you are trapping, if it is a good amount, run the dryer. if it is nominal don't worry about it. If you can get by without it, save on the power bill.