Description
12V Vacuum Pump, ideal for robotics! - Sparkfun ROB-10398
This vacuum pump operates at 12V and has enough suction for most small projects. This pump is also perfect for your robotics projects - use it to make an automatic Lego picker-upper, like the one we are trying to make right now!
We love this 12v Vacuum Pump because of its reliability, This is why we've used it in lots of projects from covering Richard in blue dyed water to automatic resistor cutters!
It's quite loud during operation (see the videos below for an indication) but it does such a great job we can forgive it!
Make sure to connect the pump correctly, the red dot on the side of the pump shows the location of the positive terminal.
Connecting it up!
You'll also need a decent 1A minimum 12V supply to drive this pump which you can connect to in a couple of ways:
- If you don't mind losing the male barrel connector, simply chop it off using a pair of cutters, separate the two wires and remove some of the insulation plastic using some wire strippers.
- Alternatively, if you want to keep that male barrel connector intact, simply pick up one of our female barrel connectors with screw terminals, then you can plug this supply in, and using some red and black hookup wire to connect to the rest of your project
Check out our excellent 12V vacuum pump videos below for more details.
Specifications:
- Part No.: D2028
- Free Flow Range: 12 ~ 15LPM
- Vacuum Range: 0 - 16"Hg (>350mmHg)
- Pressure Range: 0 - 32PSI (-70KPA ~ -220KPA)
- Standard Motor Voltage Options: 12V DC
- Power: 12W
- Motor Construction: Iron Core-Oil Bearing
- Diaphram Material Option: EPDM
- Operating Temperature Range: 0 ~ 50°C
- Life Expectancy: 500hrs
- Noise: 65db
Dimensions:
Additional Information
Brand: |
SparkFun |
Manufacturer: |
Airpon |
Part Number: |
ROB-10398 |
Barcode: |
5055421005542 |
20 Reviews
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Title of review 1010
Vacuum pump is very powerful with a single pump pulling 21.5 in.hg& 26.5 inch.hg using two pumps in series.
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Title of review 1009
I used this to build a desoldering station. It works well and is less noisy than I expected.
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Title of review 1008
This little pump for the price is excellent, it's pretty loud but does what I want it to do, namely suck for my robot.
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Title of review 1007
Great little pump that is surprisingly powerful for its size. Excellent.
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Title of review 1006
This is the second review I have written on this product having just ordered 7 more I must be fairly satisfied with them we have quite a few in operation now and reliability seems good and they are quite powerful for there size although I have to double t
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Title of review 1005
Works very well. As you have shown in your demonstration.
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Title of review 1004
The pump works great. But I was surprised to find it have no way of securely mounting it to anything ? There are no mounting holes in the pump base.
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Title of review 1003
From the video, once the motor is turned off the vacuum falls away pretty quickly. This is in contrast to a fridge pump say. Problem is that to use this for vacuum bagging then the motor will get hot and use a lot of power. This could be solved by introdu
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Title of review 1002
Hi Geoff,Did you manage to complete your testing of this vacuum pump ?
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Title of review 1001
Seems to work well but have more extensive testing to do as to time it takes to create a vacumn and the work needed to hold it needs to be accessed.
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