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21/5/2024 at 5:38pm
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Outfit: Lunar Cosmos 524
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Air beam tents and awnings need a pump with large VOLUME and a little bit of pressure, ideally you want the biggest pump you can handle to shift the greatest volume of air with each stroke to minimise just how many times you 'pump' the pump!
You can use a physically smaller pump, BUT the trade off is you will 'pump' it up and down a lot more times to shift the equivalent amount of air - and that IS exhausting unless you're super fit!
Rechargeable pump. MOST on the market will be unsuitable, firstly car tyre type pumps won't shift the volume of air necessary in a reasonable time, and will likely burn out/overheat and trip out or run out of charge BEFORE finishing the job! They also produce pressures FAR in excess of what an air beam can tolerate, so need careful monitoring to ensure you don't over-pressurise and damage your air beams!
The other kind are intended for airbeds and inflatable toys. They shift volume OK, but never can get sufficient pressure built up to inflate the air beams to their desired operating pressure.
It's been looked at before, got a feeling somebody did find a suitable pump, but I don't recall the details. A search of previous posts may reveal something!
What's usually suggested is the standard (usually 12v) electric optional pump for the tent and a (12v) power pack, but at the end of the day, you probably have not reduced the size at all, and have added considerably to the weight of the 'package' needed to inflate the tent! AND, once the charge has been exhausted, your pumping opportunities have also gone, until you recharge the power pack! A good old hand pump will work until YOU cease to be able to use it!
I've got an airbeam awning for the caravan, I've pumped it up with the hand pump that came with it, it wasn't too difficult, but I'm old/wise and lazy, so bought the electric pump to do it (packing space and weight restrictions not being a consideration with the caravan), but then I've got 12v supply from both the caravan and the car to hand! I still pack the hand pump as a back up, just in case the electric one fails, and TBH it's less faff to give the beams a little 'top up' with the hand pump than break out and connect up the electric one for such a small 'puff'!
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