The NOCO Air AL5 is a very good tire inflator for small jobs. It has a reasonable speed pumping up tires, and the battery handles topping up four tires while losing half its charge. It’s a compact, handy unit to have around for the odd times you will need it. The compressor quality is quite good. It has the basic attachments for various types of tires and a small storage bag. It fits easily in your hand and is not too heavy. The compressor hose wraps around the compressor for easy storage. Unfortunately, the quick connect adapter does not have a storage spot on the compressor as the other adapters do. My fear is that I will lose it if I just throw it into the storage bag. If I leave it attached to the compressor hose though, this prevents you from completely wrapping the hose for storage. The compressor is easy to use and has easy-to-read controls for setting tire pressure. The compressor has a bright light to help light up the area when you are attaching the air hose. I performed my tire testing on a fully charged battery. Adding three pounds took about 1.5 minutes on a large SUV tire. I did four tires from three to five pounds each, and the battery went from four to two on the light indicators. The compressor’s hose became rather warm while pumping up the four tires. Charging the half empty battery after topping up my four tires took about one hour. The compressor is a bit loud while in use, 102 db according to my Apple Watch noise sensor. Unfortunately, you essentially have to hold the unit while it’s working as the air hose is only about 10”. Also, if the tire nipple is towards the middle or top of the tire, the compressor would not touch the ground. I did not want to let the unit dangle as it would put a lot of strain on the tire nipple where the compressor attaches. You may want to wear earplugs while using this. The NOCO Air AL5 is a good tire inflator to have around for the small jobs you will need. I would store this in the car trunk to have it available even when away from home. Read more

Excellent product made in UK, definitely the best portable inflator out there Read more

I'm very pleased with the NOCO Air AL5. Noco is a company I'm familiar with and produce good quality products. What I was focusing on most with the NOCO Air AL5 was the air flow rate(power), the battery life and mechanical design/construction. The airflow(17L/min) is better than I expected. I inflated 2 x 255/55R18 SUV tires from 34PSI to 38PSI in a few minutes. Each tire took about 3-4 minutes. From a full battery charge, half of the battery was used. Noteworthy is that these are SUV tires on a vehicle that was on an incline. The NOCO Air AL5 performed very well for doing just that. For topping up tire pressure or in a small tire emergency the performance is very good. ⭐ My use case scenario is in the middle of winter, in the dark in a cold and wet environment. The physical design is very robust and well layed out. I do however have a few very small suggestions that coudl improve the overall quality significantly. The air cord tube itself could be a bit longer as it is a bit short. Generally speaking having the air cord tube tightly wrapped around the unit itself is a common thing but I personally would feel better if there was a little more slack so it is not as tightly wound. If this is used in a cold environment, the tube will be more stiff and harder to handle in addition to already being on the short side which limits its reach to tire valves. I do not like that the accessories are placed on the bottom of the unit. They can potentially vibrate and fall out. There are tiny rubber feet on the "bottom" suggesting the unit should be layed down. This can be a problem if the environment is wet and dark. What I typically do is keep a plastic bag to put down regardless of the environmental conditions and put whatever tool I'm using on that. Lastly is regarding the connection to the tire to be inflated. I greatly appreciate that a quick connect adapter was included. This is great! However, once it is screwed onto the air inflator tube, the quick connect cannot be rotated without possibly loosening the connection and causing air to escape. Also on that note the adapter feels like it is made of a plastic. I do not know how long it can/would last but a metal quick connect adapter would have been preferred. The NOCO Air AL5 has a powerful and fast pump that I respect for what it can do. The mechanical construction is very robust but could use a little tweaking. For what the NOCO Air AL5 can do, it does it very well ⭐. Keep in mind the usage duty cycle to be sure it does not burn out! Small changes can make this an even better product. I would recommend the NOCO Air AL5. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Read more

It takes less than a minute to top off tires. Great for this purpose. I have had other inflators and this is the best I have used. Read more

I've tested various tyre inflators and this by far tops the list, of course the price tag is up there too, but in terms of quality and performance this is pretty impressive. Unboxing this was like unboxing a flagship phone, they've really put effort and care into the presentation, which is nice to see. I've just topped up all four tyres and my car is reading exactly 36 PSI on every single one. The fact it's the size of a power bank and yet so powerful is very impressive. Everything you would need to pump air into things is included. The only thing lacking in the box was some kind of instructions on how to switch between the air pressure and other not-so-obvious features, although it's kind of easy to guess and it's in the product page descriptions down below the page, under "intuitive pressure gauge" slide. One thing to note is the manual air pressure mode (simply set it to 0.0 PSI and it will pump till it can pump no more or the air button is pressed again), to change the air units simply press both up and down buttons together for 3 seconds and that's pretty much all there is to this. The LED light has a few modes, such as full and lower brightness levels, blinking mode and (also very nice to have) is the SOS flashing feature, considering this would be in a car, this might one day be useful. In addition the charging port acts like a power bank, so not only is this capable of pumping tyres, and along with PSI it's also capable of pumping up in BAR and KPA (although I've never used KPA before) and in about 12minutes, my phone battery went from 5% to 32%, the Ampere amp stating charge of about 5200mA, using just under 5volts, which equates to 21.6 W, this is advertised as doing 30W so can confirm capable of 30W after using a FNIRSI FNB58 USB tester to confirm, although there is no e-marker chip on the USB Type-C cables (just to note). I must say - for me - the most notable features is the 360 swivel on the nozzle, allowing you to twist the adapters without struggling and straining the air pressure lead, it easily twists and tightens in place. There's a rubber feet/layer that goes all around the bottom of the device, helping it to avoid getting damaged or scratched if placed on the floor. Read more