Sods law, I have a new F-rib 330 coming on Tuesday and I have just burnt out my Bravo BTP12 pump. It is sort of my fault as I use it to blow up paddles boards to 14psi. I had 6 to blow up this morning and the pump died on the second.
Anyone have any recommendations? or I will just buy another.
Recommend me a electric pump
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Re: Recommend me a electric pump
Tbh, everyone will recommend the bravo btp12 lol..
That's the first I've heard of one dying
£120 on eBay if that's any use to you
That's the first I've heard of one dying
£120 on eBay if that's any use to you
F-RibsAndSibs.Com.... 
Because it's a big old WWworld out there
Because it's a big old WWworld out there
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I have had it a couple of years so I suppose I can't complain. I think it is blowing up sup boards at pressure that killed it as opposed to sibs & ribs.
Re: Recommend me a electric pump
I got mine for £89 with twist and lock valve, think it was Barnet marineMartin wrote:Tbh, everyone will recommend the bravo btp12 lol..
That's the first I've heard of one dying
£120 on eBay if that's any use to you
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Re: Recommend me a electric pump
having a windsurf and paddle board (and now F-rib) shop I have just opened an account with a supplier of bravo pumps so one is arriving today.
it is the paddle boards that killed my old one. it would blow a board up to 14 psi but to then try to blow up another straight away was just to big a ask for it.
it is the paddle boards that killed my old one. it would blow a board up to 14 psi but to then try to blow up another straight away was just to big a ask for it.
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Re: Recommend me a electric pump
Out of interest, how do the SUP board manufacturers suggest you inflate their boards? Foot pump? You'd have thought that at least one of them would have released an electric pump...
The other option you've got for your SUP boards that I've seen in beach resorts, although far less portable is a proper air compressor with large reservoir...
The other option you've got for your SUP boards that I've seen in beach resorts, although far less portable is a proper air compressor with large reservoir...
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Re: Recommend me a electric pump
All the boards come with pumps like this - 
either a wider bodied one that moves a lot of air but you then struggle to reach the required pressure and some boards want over 20 psi. Or a narrower bodied pump which can get the pressure but takes ages. A board is about 250 ltrs in volume.
But one brand has just come out with a new pump which shifts a lot of air then you switch it to high pressure mode to top up to the required pressure -
The boards are very simillar to the air floors in sibs ie use a drop stitch technology. But where as a sib deck may be 3" thick so remains a bit flexy the paddle boards are 4 to 6" so go rock hard.
either a wider bodied one that moves a lot of air but you then struggle to reach the required pressure and some boards want over 20 psi. Or a narrower bodied pump which can get the pressure but takes ages. A board is about 250 ltrs in volume.But one brand has just come out with a new pump which shifts a lot of air then you switch it to high pressure mode to top up to the required pressure -
The boards are very simillar to the air floors in sibs ie use a drop stitch technology. But where as a sib deck may be 3" thick so remains a bit flexy the paddle boards are 4 to 6" so go rock hard.
