What is the best recommended and cost effective way to do this low pressure side filtering?
I think that Parker-Hannifin is a great unit at a great price. I have the same basic unit made by Wilkerson on mine, and I am only now beginning to see a slight change in color in the beads in mine after 145 hours of run time of my Shoebox. I will probably dry it this weekend, and then I can report on the water weight I got out of it.If you run one of these on the input side of a booster pump (be it the Altoros or a Shoebox) you will be in a good place for dry air - the first stage of compression will lead to condensing out around 90% of the water vapor, saving your dryer from having to handle all that load, and you will get the air very dry for much less cost than post compression filtration (plus no wasted time pressurizing that filter).
Daniel,The Altaros booster has two air systems tied into the single inlet. One system runs the piston for compression. The other system is the air used to fill your gun or air cylinder.What you could do is supply fill side with dried air and the compressor side with unfiltered air. This would help the life of your desiccant. Or you could splice the drier into the fill side.Taso
So I started digging to find the threads where we discussed:https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=123325.0https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=135521.0Taso