Air Tree

Lowering maintenance costs and simplifying troubleshooting is the name of the game with multiple locations.

I love this air tree for mac valves made by Sonnnys. I've got every mac (13) for this location in one spot with one large oiler. We added the panduit behind it to conceal the wires, the 8X8 box for terminal strips and the oversized oiler.

Oil and dry air are the keys to keeping macs performing.

And speaking of dry air. It is worth the extra money to install an air dryer on your compressor. It makes air pumps, mac valves, and cylinders last longer.

Note the 24 hour timer underneath to turn it off automatically at night.

I make my own air line "Manifolds" Simple enough to do with a single larger self dumping filter. I just run an air line horizontaly so each valve is near the unit it triggers. I have na elec line above it with strategicaly placed outlets trigeered by the wash controller. Valves are simply wired to regular cords that plug into the outlet. Makes swapping out easy if one fails which is seldom.

Great idea...take picture Earl.

I'll try. I think it's easier to design and build y back room set up than to take and upload a digital picture!

Here's a photo of the air line auto dump

Photo of outlet set up for simple solenoid Plug in

Note also behind pink bucket parallel struts mounted to the wall. Pumping stations are mounted to the struts with strut catcher nuts. Less drilling for ech station and a lot of flexibility.