The oasis air compressor is basically a warn winch motor mounted to a york ac compressor. Can a compressor be ran off the 8274 while in neutral?
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The Oasis uses a regular DC motor instead a series wound winch motor.
The main problem with winch motors is they're series wound. Series wound is great for very high loads at a very short duty cycle. Air compressor is more like medium load for a long time. The winch motor gets too hot and melts. Winch motors don't have any cooling. Many have temp sensors inside because they need them. Series wound motors are basically self destructive for anything beyond intermittent duty.
I made a coupling and adapter and put a 5HP winch motor to a new York 210 thinking the parts to connect the two could be a product. For one- The York doesn't have any features concentric to the crankshaft. So mounting a motor in decent alignment is not easy. With all the parts I had to buy to make it work as a so-so air compressor I realized it wasn't such a good idea. I went down the rabbit hole of "I could mount an AC motor to a York and drive it with an inverter for a better and cheaper result" Then deep down that rabbit hole it struck me that the $129 Harbor freight air compressor paired with an adequate inverter was actually cheaper and better than any of these above options.
I think a combined winch/compressor would be really cool if it had a built in HD inverter driving a high performance 5HP 3 phase AC motor that could drive both the winch and an air compressor and had powertool outlets so you could power other things.
But that would cost more than $12 to make so none of the big name winch manufacturers would be interested.
The main problem with winch motors is they're series wound. Series wound is great for very high loads at a very short duty cycle. Air compressor is more like medium load for a long time. The winch motor gets too hot and melts. Winch motors don't have any cooling. Many have temp sensors inside because they need them. Series wound motors are basically self destructive for anything beyond intermittent duty.
I made a coupling and adapter and put a 5HP winch motor to a new York 210 thinking the parts to connect the two could be a product. For one- The York doesn't have any features concentric to the crankshaft. So mounting a motor in decent alignment is not easy. With all the parts I had to buy to make it work as a so-so air compressor I realized it wasn't such a good idea. I went down the rabbit hole of "I could mount an AC motor to a York and drive it with an inverter for a better and cheaper result" Then deep down that rabbit hole it struck me that the $129 Harbor freight air compressor paired with an adequate inverter was actually cheaper and better than any of these above options.
I think a combined winch/compressor would be really cool if it had a built in HD inverter driving a high performance 5HP 3 phase AC motor that could drive both the winch and an air compressor and had powertool outlets so you could power other things.
But that would cost more than $12 to make so none of the big name winch manufacturers would be interested.
I have not opened one up. I'd imagine they used a series wound motor with an undersized compressor.
