The air tank gets hot because of physics, any increase in pressure is going to create heat, a decrease in pressure is going to have a cooling affect, part of why air powered cars don't tend to work well in states that have winter.
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Originally Posted by Hondo
I can understand the cylinder getting hot if it is filled from the compressor, but I can't quite figure out how it would get hot just from equalizing with the pressure in the big tank. If you have 3K psi in the big tank decompressing into another tank, that should cause a cooling effect. Where does the heat come from?
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