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Which compressor for your air tools: calculator

Choose a tool and a hose: which compressors give the air needed at the working pressure, and how long the tank air lasts, from manufacturers' data.

Updated 12 Oct 2026 · GarageTally

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Tool and hose

The tool
Next to each tool, consumption and pressure from the manufacturer’s sheet. If yours is missing, choose “other” and enter them.

Where do I find it?

In the tool’s sheet or manual, as “air consumption” in l/min. If it is in l/s multiply by 60; if in CFM multiply by 28.3.

The air hose

How do I find it?

Air hoses are usually given as inner × outer, e.g. 8 × 12 mm: use the first number. Narrow quick couplers add losses not included here.

Result

Choose a tool (or enter consumption and pressure) and the hose length and diameter to see the estimates.

Assumptions: delivered air and consumption as declared by manufacturers, in litres per minute of free air; air at 20 °C; smooth hose; quick couplers, filters and reducers not included, so pressure at the tool will be a little lower. Intake air never counts as delivered air: it serves only as a limit, because a piston compressor always delivers less than it takes in. Tank time runs from a full tank at maximum pressure until the pressure falls to the required one: the lower value counts only the air in the tank (the motor may restart only after a pressure drop that manufacturers do not declare), the higher one adds the delivered air at that pressure; the calculation assumes constant temperature, so times are estimates. “Enough air” only means that the delivered air declared at that pressure covers the consumption. The motor duty cycle counts where it is declared: with “S3 25%” the motor may run at most 25% of each cycle, so on average it gives at most 25% of its intake air; if the tool needs more, sustained continuous use goes beyond the cycle. That the cycle is respected cannot be proven: it depends on the pressure at which the switch restarts the motor, which manufacturers do not declare. Air quality (oil, condensate, impurities) and the tool’s other requirements are not assessed: we show the air required by the tool’s manufacturer and the compressor’s lubrication when they are declared. No extrapolation beyond declared values. How we calculate and what we do not know

How the calculator works

Choose a compressor by the air it delivers at the tool’s working pressure, not by the air it draws in. The calculator starts from the tool’s declared air consumption, adds the pressure lost in the hose and compares the result with the delivered air of each compressor. Next to each one it shows the motor’s declared duty cycle and the lubrication; the air quality the tool requires is shown but not checked.

How to use it

  1. Choose the tool from the list, or enter consumption and pressure from its data sheet.
  2. Enter the length and internal diameter of the air hose.
  3. If you use several tools at once, enter how many.

Compressors that declare only intake air appear in a separate group: that figure does not tell you how much air reaches the tool, but delivered air is always lower. If the intake air is already below the consumption, the calculator says so and shows only the minimum time, from the tank alone; otherwise it makes no estimate. We explain why in intake air and free air delivery; how we do the sums in where our data comes from.

Sources

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  2. Product sheet TC-AC 190/24/8, ident 21063 — Einhell Germany AG, retrieved 11 Oct 2026
  3. Einhell Compressori TC-AC 200/24/8 OF — Einhell Italia, retrieved 11 Oct 2026
  4. Operating manual TC-AC 200/24/8 OF, ident 21023 (SPK13) — Einhell Germany AG, retrieved 11 Oct 2026
  5. Einhell Compressori TE-AC 230/24/8 — Einhell Italia, retrieved 11 Oct 2026
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