Venting auto compressor drain in wall

[BCreekDave]

I am installing an automatic compressor tank drain where the hose will pass through a block wall. The drain will cycle about 3 or 4 times a day for about 5 seconds or so. Think there would be an issue with it just dumping in the empty space in the block wall? I have pissy neighbors who would probably get upset hearing the hose blow on hot summer nights with the windows open. There can't be that much water that it would hurt anything. Any other problems?


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[larry_g]

You could run the pipe into an old muffler or bury it down 12 inches and cover it with gravel. Either would damp the sound enough the neighbors may not even notice.

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You could also run a 1/4" pipe through the wall and use one of the above to silence it. I have used these on blow guns and they are quiet.
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[rsanter]

I would not dump it into the wall. Go through the wall and the step up to a larger size of pipe.
You can but a couple of bends in the pipe to reduce the noise a bit but I would drop it into a drain pipe I stick into the ground and use that to muffle the noise a bit

Bob

 

[CNGsaves]

^ ^ ^ This. Kind of a baby "dry well" of sorts . . . . . like a plastic coffee can full of gravel buried underground with holes punched in the bottom.

 

[csp]

If you're really needing it to drain that often you don't want that much water inside the wall cavity.

If it's really not sending much water out, cut the number of cycles it will be running.

 

[Rossco]

Ah you don't need to run the spitter for 5 seconds. Just a real quick blast should do it.

 

[Pwrgeek]

I am installing an automatic compressor tank drain where the hose will pass through a block wall. The drain will cycle about 3 or 4 times a day for about 5 seconds or so. Think there would be an issue with it just dumping in the empty space in the block wall? I have pissy neighbors who would probably get upset hearing the hose blow on hot summer nights with the windows open. There can't be that much water that it would hurt anything. Any other problems?


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I put my auto drain on an outlet timer. Doesn't run from 8pm to 6am. If I'm running the compressor during those hours something has gone badly wrong in my world.

 

[BCreekDave]

Thanks. All good suggestions. I like the dry well, but it is about concrete in every direction for about twenty feet from the compressor. I'll try the muffler and set the timer to not cycle at night. Thanks


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[Kaizen]

ehh in that case I think i'd just use a container inside the shop. soda bottle? maybe bigger depending. the water that comes out of my compressor is always rust colored so guaranteed to stain the block and concrete

 

[wssix99]

There can't be that much water that it would hurt anything.

Why don't you just drain it in to a container within the garage then?

(If my neighbor had a air hose blasting outside my house several times a day, I'd throw down and battle - windows open, or not.)

Could you put a timer on the mechanism to keep it going off except during the day?

 

[dave89iroc]

feed it into a 5 gallon bucket through a hole in the lid, maybe put a sight glass on the side if you are worried about not dumping it all the time

 

[ryolse]

I've been dumping mine outside as well but added a smaller T off inside to lower the pressure/noise going out as well as a backup in case the outside line gets clogged.

It's not too bad when next to it outside and hardly noticeable while on the other side of our house let alone inside our own house. So I wouldn't imagine it beinh very noticeable from inside your neighbors homes.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5396184

 

[laser3kw]

hook a timer solenoid to the drain. Hook the solenoid up to the start contactor. On motor start up, drain opens for a few seconds and then shuts.