Re: [APML] Dry air purging

[steve banbury <banburys@sonic.net>]

Hi Herm--do you have any idea how much power it draws?
Running an inverter off a battery to mke 110vac is kind of a pain, but
getting tarred and feathered by my fellow astrophotographer firends for
making a bunch of noise isn't a pretty thought either!!

Steve

At 06:00 PM 9/4/02 -0400, you wrote:
>I also bought a noisy cheap pump.. fortunately it only lasted a few months.
>The other one I got is super quiet, so I check that its running by touching
>it, it runs on 110VAC.
>
>Joe Mize <jmize@globe-net.net>  wrote:
>
>>Jim
>>
>>    The cheap pump I bought, having only one outlet, is pretty quiet on its
>>rubber feet.  12-15 ft away you cannot hear it at all.  I was tempted to
get one
>>of the dual diaphragm pumps but held off.  Maybe the extra diaphragm
makes more
>>noise.  Dunno.
>>
>>     Yes, I enjoy the night's quiet too.  I'm trying to identify a night
time
>>bird call which I hear a couple times a night/year.  It's not the usual
>>identifiable bird calls, it is soft and hushed un-owel like...joe  :)
>
>Herm
>Astropics http://home.att.net/~hermperez
>
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