To help eliminate moisture from my air compressor system I'm leaning toward building a moisture trap using copper pipe. I'm not interested in anything plastic like PVC or CPVC, no galvanized, and shying away from black pipe for now. Maybe I'll rethink black pipe but I doubt it.
I'm hoping to tap into the knowledge of you folks who may have already created their own system.
My plan so far is to have a series of vertical pipes like you see in many videos discussing this option, and drain valves installed on the bottom of dirt legs where the moisture should be driven as the air flows downward before turning up into the next vertical pipe.
My questions are more concerning size than anything else, and posted here in no particular order of importance.
Can I limit my vertical pipes to 5' to take advantage of the usual length of a 10' stick of copper, or do they need to be longer?
Is there magic number of lineal feet I should use for these vertical runs?
Which is sufficient without overkill -- 1/2 or 3/4 --- to be sure I'm not encroaching on the available cfm and pressure?
Which size will be the best for eliminating heat from the compressed air and allow the moisture to condense in the pipe? This kinda also gets back to the length of each drop.
I'm hoping to tap into the knowledge of you folks who may have already created their own system.
My plan so far is to have a series of vertical pipes like you see in many videos discussing this option, and drain valves installed on the bottom of dirt legs where the moisture should be driven as the air flows downward before turning up into the next vertical pipe.
My questions are more concerning size than anything else, and posted here in no particular order of importance.
Can I limit my vertical pipes to 5' to take advantage of the usual length of a 10' stick of copper, or do they need to be longer?
Is there magic number of lineal feet I should use for these vertical runs?
Which is sufficient without overkill -- 1/2 or 3/4 --- to be sure I'm not encroaching on the available cfm and pressure?
Which size will be the best for eliminating heat from the compressed air and allow the moisture to condense in the pipe? This kinda also gets back to the length of each drop.