CALIFORNIA AIR TOOLS CAT-1P1060SP GAL 56DB Air Compressor

It’s small. It’s lightweight and easy to move. It’s quiet. It’s fills and refills quickly. I can use it at home, at night, while everyone in the house is sleeping with no issues whatsoever.

This is _almost_ as quiet as the $1,800 Jun Air that I use in the laboratory. I use this one in the shop for pneumatic clamps and intermittent air tool use. It is day-and-night different in noise level than any other shop compressor I have used. It is nice to have the dual gauges. It is small and light enough to easily move around the shop. When I want a bit more reserve air, I just connect it to an inexpensive 7.5 gal walk-around tank. I have not had it long enough to make a comment on reliability. I can observe that the initial quality was great - no leaks, just plug and run.

Quietest air compressor on the market. Quick connect fitting on compressor was faulty. Had to replace. Thus a star taken away.

This unit is very quiet. No one has exaggerated that. Mine arrived in good shape with no issues. Via a 6-foot host I connected a external regulator / water trap and 4-port manifold at my airbrushing station. No leaks as far as I can tell. Compressor startup is quiet and doesnt make me jump while airbrushing. Fills quickly and then shuts off. I have the compressor output set at around 50 psi so it never gets as low as the external regulator. Pressure at the airbrush is good all the time. Im more than satisfied with this compressor for airbrushing. I wont be trying it for inflating tires or running nailers and such. I have bigger compressors for that kind of work.

I bought this compressor for diving on the bottom of my sailboat. I was able to power it off my inverter and calculated the draw to be about 560 watts. I dial the regulator down to 60 psi and have it hooked to cheap diving regulator I got off Amazon. The compressor kicks on and off while I am underwater. Seems to keep up with my breathing just fine, at least when I am just a few feet underwater. The compressor is so quiet it’s amazing. It also fills its little tank so quickly. I love this compressor and would definitely recommend it.

I used this compressor in an industrial setting where it was required to keep kicking on to top up the tank pressure every 12 minutes non-stop, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, without pause, forever. Requiring no maintenance (other than draining water from tank) it held up under these unrelenting conditions for 18 months before its pressure shutoff started to get sticky. For the price I am impressed. I replaced it with another, operated under the same never-ending duty-cycle and that is still running strong a year later. I just changed the duty cycle to only 14 hours a day, every day, so who knows how long it will last now... I cant review how loud it is because it is used in an area that is already loud, but this compressor is definitely a great little unit at a great price.

It is a very quiet air compressor with the necessary power for your home needs.