I almost forgot - until I read the above statement about 100 CFM at 95 pis...
Which it can't do.... but that's just a typo...
You want to be able to have a compressor that can actually operate the tools you intend to use - at the pressures you need to run them. Forget the HP and all the other facts and figures UNTIL you figure out the air requirements of your tools.
If the die grinder uses 15 CFM @ 90 PSI ---- then a compressor that is only capable of 12 CFM @ 75 PSI is USELESS....
THE AIR PRESSURE IT MAKES MEANS NOTHING if it can't make the CFM AT THE PRESSURE YOU NEED. This includes the biggest tank -- the tank will quickly run down in PRESSURE and your compressor will kick in and it will run and run and run.
#1 critical info you need -- FLOW RATE at the right pressure -- not the maximum pressure.
Mine is "rated at" 16 cfm @ 175 psi. I run it at 145 psi... no need for the 175 and regulate it down to 95 to 100 psi at the tool... but some of these tools are air hogs! Many are rated at "free wheeling" - in other words -- they aren't doing any work! You start actually using them and they eat more air.
Just warning ya.... those $800 versions at Lowes and Home depot... fugidaboudit.
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