A few months back I picked up a rechargeable inspection lamp from Ring. It’s robust and does the job very well - I’m pleased with it. This week I put some more faith in Ring and bought one of their cordless tyre inflators.
It’s a solid piece of ki, supplied with the hose and a few adapters for different types of valve, the usual suspects, that live behind a small flap on the bottom of the inflator. It’s charged via a USB-C port. They supply a cable.
Ring seem to put a lot of care in to their products. There’s a well-designed groove in the back that the hose fits in to snugly. My old 12v inflator just has spaces in the sides to put the cable and hose. It’s a faff to coil them up and stuff them back in without them popping out. This is much neater solution.
I had my ring tyre pressure pump delivered today. Tested it out today, works really well. I also got the extension tube with the easy attach clamp for attaching it to the valve.
I’ve had the Ring RTC4000 nearly six months, used it many times, and I’m definately a satisfied customer. My initial post in November gave it a recommendation and I stand by that today.
In addition to the hole for the air hose there’s a button to let air out of the tyre if you got a little over-enthusiastic with the settings. There’s also a light for those unfortunate times you find yourself inflating a tyre in the dark.
At the other end of the device there are two flaps. They hide, on one side, charging ports taking 12v or USB-C. On the other are slots to keep the supplied adapters.
The hose that fits neatly in to the back of the device is a decent length. Not shown on this pic, it’s long enough to reach to the top of the wheel while the inflator sits on the ground doing its business.
I used the MV to run some tests to find out how long it would take to inflate a fully deflated rear tyre, and how many times I could do that starting with a full battery. The MV has a relatively low tyre pressure of 2.3 bar (just over 33 psi). It took 4 minutes 6 seconds for the cut-off to kick in and I managed to inflate the tyre from flat a total of four times.