philh
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ktmrfs wrote:Really all a dry nitrogen fill does is eliminate water vapor which can go from gas to liquid and have a bigger pressure change effect. For those us where a few PSI is no big deal, no problem. Could do basically the same thing with plain dry air. All gases obay boyles law for pressure vs. temperature.
You can not get passenger vehicle tires hot enough to transform to vapor... If you did happen to get them that hot, then you have bigger problems.
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Oh Oh! I purchased a utility trailer this past summer - it had green caps, i adjuste3d air pressure with my garage duty air compressor - am I liable to change those caps to some other color? Not! ![[emoticon]](http://www.rv.net/sharedcontent/cfb/images/wink.gif "wink")
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Mont G&J
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I have green caps and nitrogen filled tires. I wish everyone did because it's good for the environment. I have noticed many tires several pounds low on air and that has a direct result in reducing gas mileage which adds to carbon emissions to the atmosphere. This doesn't apply to battery cars though.
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Mont G&J wrote:I have green caps and nitrogen filled tires. I wish everyone did because it's good for the environment. I have noticed many tires several pounds low on air and that has a direct result in reducing gas mileage which adds to carbon emissions to the atmosphere. This doesn't apply to battery cars though.
You forgot the “jk” or “lol” with your statement.
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ktmrfs
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philh wrote:ktmrfs wrote:Really all a dry nitrogen fill does is eliminate water vapor which can go from gas to liquid and have a bigger pressure change effect. For those us where a few PSI is no big deal, no problem. Could do basically the same thing with plain dry air. All gases obay boyles law for pressure vs. temperature.
You can not get passenger vehicle tires hot enough to transform to vapor... If you did happen to get them that hot, then you have bigger problems.
All you need is a temperature change. if there is even a few degrees temp change will change the amount of water liquid turning to water vapor or vice versa in an enclosed tire. Water doesn't need to get anywhere near boiling to evaporate and go from liquid to gas.
Every air compressor I've been around ends up with water in the tank even if you drain it almost daily. Follows what one would expect from the physics of air compression. Being a contained system the compressor RH for water vapor is then near 100%. Air going into the tire is at a lower pressure than the tank, hence air cools, lowers the dew point, condenses some amount of water into the tire, but still at or near 100%RH. temp change will then cause water to either condense (temp drop) or evaporate (temp rise) till all the water is a vapor. Messes around with ideal gas behavior,
So unless the tire shop has some form of water removal and drains the tanks often, you will get some amount of water in the tire.
The vapor obeys boyles law, the liquid does not. That affects how temp changes affect tire pressure.
Again, for most consumer applications, it will not make enough difference to be signficant or affect operation.
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TUCQUALA
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So if I put air into my freshly nitrogen-ed tires, will I have 178% nitro in them?? Is that legal?? Inquiring minds need to know!!
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Mont G&J wrote:I have green caps and nitrogen filled tires. I wish everyone did because it's good for the environment. I have noticed many tires several pounds low on air and that has a direct result in reducing gas mileage which adds to carbon emissions to the atmosphere. This doesn't apply to battery cars though.
Wasting energy producing and distributing useless hydrogen should be considered, if you want to discuss this infinitesimal subject. Your wonderful battery powered car uses the nuclear, hydro, gas, fuel oil and coal fired power plants surrounding me.
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StirCrazy wrote:Pipsfc wrote:Ok... thought so. Wasn't sure if I had to keep using nitrogen or not, but you answered that question. Air it will be! Thanks!
except you will lose the benifit of what nitrogen does.
if you fill with all nitrogen you will see slightly lower running temps, less pressure loss and it keeps the inside dryer.
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My new Toyota pick up has green valves and a few weeks ago the low tire light came on. I checked with my gage and sure enough all four wheels only had 25 PSI. I topped them off with my handy dandy little 12 volt compressor, and they never complained, and the green valves never changed to black, or purple, etc, so I guess all is well.
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Guy Roan wrote:My new Toyota pick up has green valves and a few weeks ago the low tire light came on. I checked with my gage and sure enough all four wheels only had 25 PSI. I topped them off with my handy dandy little 12 volt compressor, and they never complained, and the green valves never changed to black, or purple, etc, so I guess all is well.
Guy
If I were you I would get those defective green valves replaced. ![[emoticon]](http://www.rv.net/sharedcontent/cfb/images/biggrin.gif "biggrin")
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