Compressors

For all the PCP shooters out there....

most of us dont own compressors,i like many rural hunters do lot shooting and have got by with several large dive bottles for 20 years,but i allso have a mate who owns dive shop,which is handy eh!!most who do own compressors tend to use the cheap small chinese made 300bar jobs,which work ok if maintained for quite few years and parts cheap and readily available for,these will top up quite large bottles if not run for more than 20 mins at a time but work well on smaller carbon fiber hpa bottles,most dont have $5 grand  to spend on top quality compressors so the $4/500 ones are what we use these do the job ok but do have a life span but are inexpensive and readily available on line from china with readily and cheap spare parts,how long the last depends on the user,wether maintained properly and how long they are run at any given time,they are water cooled but definatly last long if run using engine coolant not just water,gun city sells 300bar 12 volt ones that will fiil most reasonble sized carbon fiber bottles or top guns and bottles up in the field for approx $500,havnt used one so cant say how good they are,but as long will fill smaller bottles or  guns when away from home,i guess they would be fine,biggest hassel with hpa bottles is the yearly tested required to be able to get them filled at $50 a time as this can expensive if like me you have more than one bottle needing testing at a time,i use lot air coz shoot a lot and allso build pcp guns,so lot my air gets used in testing and tuning guns far more than ever used hunting,i need good compressor but like many others just cant afford a really good one,so make do with what i have like many others do i guess,i tend to think most use have famillys so money for things like good compressors not in the familly budjet eh!!

I have a GX CS2 12V air cooled PCP compressor with provided AC power adapter on order from Gun City.

I've got a Nomad 2 that i've had for 2 years now. I've filled my guns approx 180 times. I had an issue where the steel frame that holds the motor and crank together cracked along a weld. I took it apart, got it welded and it's working fine again.
If I had to buy one now, i'd get the Hill, as a couple friends have them and say they're good.
As for filters, the nomad has a type of moisture trap, and the filter like a cigarette filter, and this doesn't seem to get wet at all.

If you can locate a second gen Airbow compressor, they are meant to be good too.