This is a clever approach to making a portable air pump. Whether you need to aerate something while travelling or have an emergency battery backed or solar powered air source, this unit could be useful.
It's based on what appears to be a standard pump with a very minimalist cover, and current is low - especially after a little hack.
I'm not sure what overall lifespan this unit has for continuous operation. The weakest points may be the rotating offset pin-cam or the motor brushes.
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It's based on what appears to be a standard pump with a very minimalist cover, and current is low - especially after a little hack.
I'm not sure what overall lifespan this unit has for continuous operation. The weakest points may be the rotating offset pin-cam or the motor brushes.
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This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.
Is this the same one Aquarium Co-op sell?
I have 4 of these running in some aquariums at home, and I've been planning to run them direct off of a lithium cell floated at 3.8v or so (battery backup, without killing the cell by holding it at 4.2v all the time) Unfortunately, one of them died last night. I think it's been running about 4-5 months. I expect that the brushed motor's going to be the biggest issue with using them full time.
I've got one of these, it's new and works but several times a day it just stops working (motor stopped). Not powered by a powerbank so is not cutting out due to low current. I give it a bang and it works again… for a while. I've looked inside and all seems to be in order? Any idea what could be the problem? Thanks
If you run reverse motor then it's suck air
Awesome tear down, i have this running my nano shallow tank, connected to a 27000 mah powerbank with pass through charging.
Very much like the hand sanitizer dispensers we got at work for COVID. The alcohol evaporates and the jello doesn't flow. I got sick of cleaning the bastards.
Good for sea monkeys too haha
link pz
Amazed it actually started up on just over a volt! Wow. Great video.
Try discovering, what is the
minimum resistance, to avoid the
powerbank, from automatic shutdown.
But where is the air intake!! I want to use a small air pump to connect to a vape pen and use as a tiny smoke machine😅
Maybe they got trouble with RF interfererence from the commutator, and the super-cheapest way to improve it is by putting a resistor in parallel with the motor brushes.
I had a couple of this failed on me after ard 4mth of use. Everytime it did died the resistor will heat up. But doesnt run. Should i just cut of the resistor? Did the resistor burned out? 😂 😅
wow the same type pump like a car air compressors. MM… probably the blood preasure monitor too.. Do you think it is posible to reverse some how to convert to a vacum pump? Handy mini tool to wrap thinks and suck some liquids. Regards