12v pump for inflating tender. Recommendations?

WindermereColvic said:
I've been looking at these but don't want to disturb people when heading out to the mooring late at night.. how noisy are they?
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That's the exact one I have...bought from Amazon a year ago and it makes short work of inflating my 2.5m airdeck Waveline.
Yes, the second stage is louder, but hardly embarrassingly so
 
I dragged out my cheapo camping inflator to use on my Soviet Dinghy .....

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With my manual to finish off the few strokes at end ..

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That's nearly one end done (3 mins) ...

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The pump is a common cheapo sold in supermarkets for lilos / beds etc. and when I bought it maybe 15+ years ago .. it was about a fiver !!
 
I have the decathlon pump and I am a little disappointed by it. It has no problems getting the pressure required for the aerodeck, but it does not have a low pressure mode so it takes ages and is noisy.
If I were buying again I'd get a two stage pump to work fast at low pressure and then switch to high pressure for the final inflation.
 
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I've had a cheap 6 to 7 quid one for years, still working well, I only use it for the inflatable and finish tubes off with the foot pump.
For an item that I use less than eight times a year I don't need to to spend £50 - £70 for an all singing and dancing one.
Maybe a different story if you are using it daily / weekly throughout the summer and have more than one use for it.
 
LadyInBed said:
I've had a cheap 6 to 7 quid one for years, still working well, I only use it for the inflatable and finish tubes off with the foot pump.
For an item that I use less than eight times a year I don't need to to spend £50 - £70 for an all singing and dancing one.
Maybe a different story if you are using it daily / weekly throughout the summer and have more than one use for it.
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Mine doesn't sing or dance - sadly. It does pump to the correct pressure fairly quickly, not too noisily and then stops. I used to do the topping up thing but we have a small cockpit and operating the pump from the extreme edges of the cockpit felt perilous. Compared to equivalent Bravo pumps the Sevylor is great value IMO.
 
Manual pumping ... agreed - if you have the typical Avon type bellows style - then its a pain as the dinghy 'floor' is often too floppy till that final last few psi.
But I bought a double action pump - not in the photo sadly - that you can 'play' like an accordion ... being double action - it takes half the number of strokes of the one in photo.
 
Forumites have all spoken about inflation, but what about deflation? Ashore we use an excellent cheap 240 V pump for our airbags which we use for placing moorings. These are 2.400 high by 1.500 diameter. We can do both with the pump.
So if one bought a pump to inflate on deck with limited space it seems reasonable to have the facility to deflate.. This would make it far easier to get the dinghy into the holdall when returning to the boat.
 
Daydream believer said:
Forumites have all spoken about inflation, but what about deflation? Ashore we use an excellent cheap 240 V pump for our airbags which we use for placing moorings. These are 2.400 high by 1.500 diameter. We can do both with the pump.
So if one bought a pump to inflate on deck with limited space it seems reasonable to have the facility to deflate.. This would make it far easier to get the dinghy into the holdall when returning to the boat.
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Most - like mine- are two ended affairs .... just swap hose from one connection to the other and deflate the dinghy ...

The cheapo pump shown here .... the IN hose connection is underneath in centre ... same diameter as the OUT hose connection you see into the dinghy.

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