What do you guys reckon? Would this get a kite up to pressure?http://www.ozito.com.au/12-volt-air-pump
Looks like a toy to me,looking at the gauge you would get the pressure ,but it would take a week to pump your kite up,very low volume.
Best thing I found (and I got a bravo pump which is a piece of junk) is a Colman 6v pump which I rewired to bigger gauge cable ,beefed up the switch up and binned the 6v battery and wired up a lead with a 12v 12 ah battery.this thing will blow up a 17m contra(we know how big those leading edges are) in about a minute.it is a low pressure high volume pump ,you need to pump up the last 20 pumps or so by hand to get enough pressure. Changing it from 6v to 12 v effectively doubled to speed of the fan ,this thing screams and the battery lasts months cos it runs under 1min ,will pump up a 12 in aout 30 secs.
Jay.
total waste of time unless youve got a spare hour to spend on inflation,grabbed a similar one from a shop a few years ago to try and it was hopeless,cant beat a bit of manual labour.
^^^^^Waste of time,,,,Not really,
You have to have something in the boot of your car to keep ya reel leash,go-joe,wind meter and slave launch pad company.
Fair call, just saw it in bunnings today and thought it might be worth a try....guess not.
All my power tools are the very cheapest I can buy (SCA, Ozito, GMC, etc) and they are all fit for purpose. Not the lightest or most powerful, but they get the job done and some are 7 or 8 years old and still going strong.
If I was a tradie it would be a different story tho.
I have one of those. It was good for bike tyres and small toys only until the charger fell into that big box of electric chargers we all end up with and you don't know which goes with what. It's a low volume pump. You need a two stage pump for kites.
Definately recommend the 6 volt high volume pump to get the bulk of air into the kite then only about 20 pumps with the normal pump.
Have'nt used the kite pump for years to pump up the entire kite. Great if you have to pump up 2 kites each time. Try one you won't regret!! $12 bucks from Aldi
When my Makita hammer drill broke down they wanted 60 bucks up front to quote the repair and couldn't look at it for 4 weeks. So grabbed an Ozito for $69 from the hardware which comes with 2 year replacement guarantee. Does say "not for trade use" on the box , so when I got it replaced after 18 months when the dude asked me if it was trade use I just said "no" Despite coming straight from work as a plumber , work boots, filthy dirty the whole look. He's hardly gonna call me a liar.!!
Use it nearly every day, it rocks!!
apologies for jumping to conclusions about ozito...i'm basing my judgment on their angle grinders-which are absolute crud.
i might try one of the hammer drills if my hilti ever dies
apologies for jumping to conclusions about ozito...i'm basing my judgment on their angle grinders-which are absolute crud. I went through 3 grinders in a weekend just cutting lines into the concrete render to glue some tiles onto. First one did about 60cm before it wouldnt restart 
. Got a brand new one (ie 4th) in the toolshed - with receipt
The chuck ends up giving out after about three years Motor still goes hard though
if you want to be lazy get a s/h diving tank fill it to 200 bar and you can inflate many kites in no time at all..... just watch out you might blow a few bladders if you're not quick enough.
Or how about a cheapo air compressor to fit behind the seat? Plug it in at home to charge it ,watch the faces of envy as the kite inflates in 5 seconds!
The specs of the pump say 14 l/min
I worked out that my pump is about 8 litres. If I can do 1 pump per second, I can do 480 l/min.
Therefore using my pump would be about 34 times faster than the Ozito air pump.
... I was sick of my pumps sh!tting itself so got one of those 12V Bravo kitepumps and is just about one of the best things I ever got. Highly recommended. Use one and you'll see for yourself how cool it is!
I tried the pump thing with a cheap high volume low pressure coleman air mattress pump slightly modified to work with the kite. It worked well but as a consequence I would go kiting without warming up and wouldnt bounce as easily when I crashed, so have gone back to a normal pump.
