The Advantages of Using Electric Air Compressors

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Air compressors are exceptionally useful and versatile machines and as such you can find compressors of every size and shape and with an enormous range of variable characteristics, ranging from extremely specialized compressors that are only really useful in one application to very general ones that can be used in almost any application. This wide range of variables also includes the power source. Needless to say, the compressor has to be powered some how and there are a lot of options to choose from: electric, gasoline, diesel, propane, and natural gas fueled being some of the more common options available.

As the most common form of energy used in stationary circumstances – both personal and commercial – electricity is frequently the first choice when it comes to powering air compressors. Electricity is readily available in most places where an air compressor may be used, so it only makes sense that most stationary compressors use this energy source. Further, since electricity is so widely used, it also tends to be less expensive than many of the other alternative power sources. The vast majority of air compressors in use today use electricity as their primary power supply and this has been the case since the beginning of the twentieth century.