overclocking a compressor for garage

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overclocking a compressor for garage

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08-02-2007, 02:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Chas H

Why? CFM is horsepower. Your electric motor makes given horsepower to drive the compressor that produces given CFM. If you need more CFM you need a more powerfull compressor.

CFM is cubic feet per minute, right? And a minute is a timed quantity. So if I can increase the speed of the cubic feet of air being delivered, it will not produce more air, just the rate at which it is being delivered...or cfm.....right?

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