Has anyone tried joining side tubes' air intakes together?
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 7:13 am
It seems that much time and pressure testing could be saved if one had an equalising set of y-piece tubes which joined all 4 side tubes together.
Then you'd just connect the pump to a single valve and all 4 tubes would automatically be at the same pressure as each other - surely a good thing?
If you're worried about a single chamber's leak emptying all 4, have isolating taps or valves which could be turned after you're happy with the inflation.
4 separate Boston valves for those side tubes seems so clumsy to me.
And so easy to get "ever so slightly wrong".
Unless the top tubes and the bottom tubes should have different pressures to each other - but the manual has no mention of this.
But if that was a need, just join L+R Top and L+R Bottom to have 2 filling points instead of 4.
Given that an accurate pressure gauge doesn't seem to exist in the available pump products, just go by feel and equalise the pressures....
Then you'd just connect the pump to a single valve and all 4 tubes would automatically be at the same pressure as each other - surely a good thing?
If you're worried about a single chamber's leak emptying all 4, have isolating taps or valves which could be turned after you're happy with the inflation.
4 separate Boston valves for those side tubes seems so clumsy to me.
And so easy to get "ever so slightly wrong".
Unless the top tubes and the bottom tubes should have different pressures to each other - but the manual has no mention of this.
But if that was a need, just join L+R Top and L+R Bottom to have 2 filling points instead of 4.
Given that an accurate pressure gauge doesn't seem to exist in the available pump products, just go by feel and equalise the pressures....