appologies for not being about much ... broadband down for a week .. wife had a blow out on the motorway .. storm took a tree down and landed on 2 of my cars ! ... now elec troubles in the workshop ...
I have a book case to make .. fired up the compressor for the 1st time in a fair few months , for the nailer.
All good , until it got to pressure and clicked off. .. and tripped the RCD in the house (dedicated one for the workshop
reset the rcd .. got to pressure and tripped again ..
did this a few times, and now it trips when you switch it on.
Took the lid off, the filter cap had a broken leg .. didn't think this should cause the tripping, but went and got another to replace it , and it still trips.
with the compressor on, and the RCD switched on in the house, it clicks straight off, but if you hold the RCD for a sec, it stays on , the motor runs up to pressure then trips the RCD.
There's not a lot inside a compressor !
Brushes have lots of life in them.
Filter cap replaced
there is the pressure switch (now my main suspect)
and the on off switch . (seems ok.)
There is noticable sparking inside the motor casing on start up.
but runs fine if forced passed start up.
That's all the description I think I can give.
Typing this, has made me think to bypass the pressure switch (doh!!!)
and try it again.
Any other ideas ?
No hurry now, as I've dug out my old compressor to get the job finished.
and .. it's a real pain testing and tripping and walking back to the house to reset and walking back to the workshop (about 50m) .. the fun soon wears off !
when it tripped .. it took out my windows PC which runs the laser .. so I'm on that tonight .. grrr ! lol
Thanks in advance and all that :-)