osvrat - What do you mean by overheating the compressor??? How did you determine it was overheating????. If it was truly overheating engineers at Gast told me their GAST rotary units have a auto-thermal shutdown set at a temperature of around 256F. These compressors standardly run at 205F. Remember - water boils at 212F. Thus the rotary compressors are designed to operate normally at a "hot" temperature. If your compressor is just operating 'hot' and not thermally automatically shutting down, then your assumption of overheating is incorrect. Since this style of air compressor operates normally at a hot temperature, this is why it is VERY important to provide good ventilation and air circulation where the pump runs to minimize issues of overheating especially during the mid-summer hot days when it is in a small cabinet.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 02/02/17 02:16 PM.
