IOT Air Compressor

After watching a recent video on compressors I found that there is a one way valve on my one between the compressor and the tank, this reduces the chance that pressure will appear in the head of the compressor. In commercial compressors the feed line between the compressor and the tank has a valve that once the original mechanical switch kicks in dumps the air out of the feed line so the next time the compressor starts pumping it is not trying to compress air that is already compressed.

I have just ordered in a small air solenoid that I will look at installing in the line so once the compressor has  reached the desired pressure it will open and remove the pressure from the feed line between the compressor head and the tank.

So the system prety much went live at the beginning of the month and has been running without a glitch ever since. Some times it gets turned off at night other times I end up just leaving it on (forget to turn it off).

Today we had our first power outage, no warning and everything just went off. I had actually had the compressor in the off mode for the last 3 days as had not been using it and had forgotten about it.
Power came back on and as everything in the workshop slowly started up the compressor kicked in replenishing the pressure back up to its set levels :)

Well the unit has been on and running since my last post and has not missed a beat.
We lost net the other day for the whole day and the unit kept on trucking regardless. Forgot to turn the pump off the other night and it fired up at about midnight, went to the page on my phone and turned it off. Mostly its been used for air brushing to pressure has been low however a couple of times I cranked the pressure up to about 120PSI for a couple of other jobs.

Lost power once over the last week during a thunder storm, power came back and everything ran as expected.  

for those having issues getting the index.hml page running have a look at this.

two days in and its running a treat so far. dropped the pressure down to 50psi and the trigger to 10psi and the air leaks that are in the line (something i really should fix one day) causes the pressure to drop and the pump to start every 5 or so hours. Pump runs for a few seconds to bring the pressure back up to 50psi then shuts off. 

Not exactly pretty but it works a treat!

I have just created a github repository for the source
https://github.com/vangalvin/IOT-Compressor