Jul 192013
Coghlan’s 12V DC Electric Air Pump
- Coghlan’s 12V DC Electric Air Pump plugs into any 12V DC outlet
- Fills small to medium size inflateables quickly and easily
- Handy in the boat, RV, or car, it comes with a 10′ power cord and 3 valve adapters
Coghlan’s 12V DC Electric Air Pump plugs into any 12V DC outlet. Fills small to medium size inflateables quickly and easily. Handy in the boat, RV, or car, it comes with a 10′ power cord and 3 valve adapters.
List Price: $ 16.99
Price: $ 8.86
Good Little Pump for Motorcycle Camping!,
I bought this pump to fill a big air mattress that I intend to use for motorcycle camping. I have installed 12-volt accessory outlets on all of my bikes, so I no longer have to use a pump powered by ‘D’ cell batteries. I figured a 12-volt pump would be a better solution. It is.
The pump itself is tiny, considerably smaller than the plug-in pump that came with mattress. Small is good — takes up less space on the bike. The pump has an on-off switch — not absolutely necessary, but nice to have. The pump comes with a 10-foot-long power cord, which should be long enough. It has a standard automobile accessory socket (cigarette lighter) plug. I replaced that plug with the smaller type which fits the accessory sockets on my bikes. (If you do that, watch the polarity. The pump definitely blows harder when it is wired correctly.)
My air mattress is nominally 72 inches long by 60 inches wide by 22 inches high — queen size. But being almost 2 feet high it does take a lot of air to blow it up.
The Coghlan’s pump can fill that mattress in less than 10 minutes, and fill it very firmly. I see no need to ‘top up’ the mattress, and that is a very good thing. Deflating the mattress with the pump actually takes longer, if you want to really flatten it. About 15 minutes.
Although the pump was working hard and running for a long time, it didn’t get hot. It drew about 4 amps (48 watts) tops. Its noise output was in the Dustbuster range — acceptable.
The only thing I could pick at is the fact the adapter that fit the pump up to the mattress’ fill port wasn’t a snug fit. I can’t really blame that on Coghlan’s. A couple wraps of vinyl tape around the adapter nozzle added a critical few thousandths of an inch to its diameter and made for a nice airtight fit. Problem solved.
How long will this pump last? Good question. I’m hoping it will last a good long time. I’m also hoping it won’t quit without warning. That could make for an uncomfortable night! But as cheap as these pumps are I could buy a spare, and as small as they are I could pack it, just in case.
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|Very fast.,
This is a fast pump. It filled a “queen size” (double-quotes mine because you know how companies size things) Ozark Trail (walmart brand!) bag in approximately a minute (actually timed it, was 65-70 seconds). It has various attachments to fit a multitude of air mattresses. It’s not excessively loud. I wanted something to run off a car’s 12 volt instead of battery operated because I trusted it would have far more power. This got the mattress plenty hard and there’s no doubt that if I left it going it would have brought it near or past the point of bursting.
Maybe a longer wire would be nice but otherwise no complaints at all.
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|Good little air pump,
Needed an air pump for car camping on a tight budget. Found this one and it worked great. It comes with 3 different tips, which gives extra flexibility. When I first took it out of the box I thought it was pretty small in size, but it pumped up my queen sized airbed quickly. You wont be disappointed with this for a budget, no frills airpump
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