I picked up the Morrflate AutoMagic Digital Air Controller when it was first introduced. There was an initial discount of some sort, and I was looking for a new automatic inflator. I would not buy this one again.
Generally I think that multi-tire inflators are a waste. I don’t want to carry all of those long hoses. I don’t think it’s relevantly faster to reinflate more than one tire at once, using just ARB Twin. I do enjoy the automatic feature, because I like to be able to set it and chat with people when we’re airing up, rather than crouch down and annoy my back muscles. And I don’t mind carrying one additional short hose to inflate a second tire.
My old automatic inflator (one tire at a time) wasn’t perfect. It was bulky and oddly shaped, so packing it was annoying. And it just ate AA batteries—so much that I was replacing them after every trip or sometimes during the trip. But it was accurate and reliable, which seems like a baseline.
I ended up using my old inflator on my last trip, and then I had to take a break from trips for a few months (family reasons), and then winter, so I didn’t get the chance to use the new Moorflate until now—when the sudden cold air dropped my tire pressure significantly (on both Jeeps). That meant that I needed to use it to inflate ten tires.
Note: Read the update at the bottom.
This thing is a piece of junk. The “Automagic” is supposed to allow you to set a tire pressure and automatically deflate or inflate both tires at the same time to that pressure. I already have Coyote deflators, so the Automagic only deflates my tires by accident—more on that shortly.
Sometimes it’ll will inflate bit third to the desired pressure. But often it will flash “ERR” and just keep inflating. Sometimes it will deflate. It sometimes holds the pressure you last used and sometimes does not. And it beeps incessantly. There does not appear to be a way to update its “software,” so it is as good as it will ever be.
There are other issues. For instance, it does not have a bleed valve, so unhooking hoses can be difficult. The buggy software means that you need to turn it off and on all the time, especially between inflations.
I hope this brief review is helpful to someone. Maybe my particular unit is defective, and the rest are good. I can only report my own experiences. My advice is, if you buy one of these, make sure you can return it.
Also, once I bought it, Moorflate started spamming me with so many messages that my junk filter began to catch everything sent from the company. I haven’t figured out how to whitelist them, so if there have been updates, I haven’t heard.
Here are some of my results: When I set it to 37 psi to fill my 33s, two ended up at 40 psi and two ended up at 35 psi. The screen was blinking crazily, but it seemed to settle at 37.0. When I set it to 31 to fill my 35s, two ended up at 28 and two at 29. In between I had to turn it off and on several times due to the “Err” message.
Update: I was contacted by Morrflate (after I commented on a FB ad), which explained that early models had bugs and offered to send a replacement. Assuming that actually happens, I’ll update this review with what I learn.
Update 2: I received a replacement from MORRflate. The good news is that most of the bugs are gone. The bad news is that one annoying bug is not.
I tested it on my wife’s car, with tires I keep at 33 psi, and on my two Jeeps—one with 33s that I keep at 37 psi, and one with 35s that I keep at 31 psi. I’m mentioning this because changing the set point still causes failures.
When I changed the pressure without turning the device off and the back on again, I could lower the pressure without a problem; but if I tried to raise it the setting would immediately jump from 31 to 37.
I could lower it from there, but if I overshot it would jump again. For instance, I was at 31 and wanted to go to 32. I hit the “+” button and it jumped directly to 37. I hit the “-“ button a few times and could get back down to 32. But if I made a mistake and pressed the “-“ button one extra time, I’d be back to 31 as expected. One press of the “+” button and I wouldn’t get to 32 but instead back up to 37.
This bug is very annoying. If I got it new, I’d send it back and demand they fix it. But at this point, I’m going to live with it. It’s just hard to believe that nobody noticed this bug before they shipped it. Didn’t they use it to inflate a bunch of tires? Or maybe the dev work is actually contracted out overseas, and they’re stuck with whatever they’re buying. Or maybe something else. I don’t know. But it’s kind of a dud.
Generally I think that multi-tire inflators are a waste. I don’t want to carry all of those long hoses. I don’t think it’s relevantly faster to reinflate more than one tire at once, using just ARB Twin. I do enjoy the automatic feature, because I like to be able to set it and chat with people when we’re airing up, rather than crouch down and annoy my back muscles. And I don’t mind carrying one additional short hose to inflate a second tire.
My old automatic inflator (one tire at a time) wasn’t perfect. It was bulky and oddly shaped, so packing it was annoying. And it just ate AA batteries—so much that I was replacing them after every trip or sometimes during the trip. But it was accurate and reliable, which seems like a baseline.
I ended up using my old inflator on my last trip, and then I had to take a break from trips for a few months (family reasons), and then winter, so I didn’t get the chance to use the new Moorflate until now—when the sudden cold air dropped my tire pressure significantly (on both Jeeps). That meant that I needed to use it to inflate ten tires.
Note: Read the update at the bottom.
This thing is a piece of junk. The “Automagic” is supposed to allow you to set a tire pressure and automatically deflate or inflate both tires at the same time to that pressure. I already have Coyote deflators, so the Automagic only deflates my tires by accident—more on that shortly.
Sometimes it’ll will inflate bit third to the desired pressure. But often it will flash “ERR” and just keep inflating. Sometimes it will deflate. It sometimes holds the pressure you last used and sometimes does not. And it beeps incessantly. There does not appear to be a way to update its “software,” so it is as good as it will ever be.
There are other issues. For instance, it does not have a bleed valve, so unhooking hoses can be difficult. The buggy software means that you need to turn it off and on all the time, especially between inflations.
I hope this brief review is helpful to someone. Maybe my particular unit is defective, and the rest are good. I can only report my own experiences. My advice is, if you buy one of these, make sure you can return it.
Also, once I bought it, Moorflate started spamming me with so many messages that my junk filter began to catch everything sent from the company. I haven’t figured out how to whitelist them, so if there have been updates, I haven’t heard.
Here are some of my results: When I set it to 37 psi to fill my 33s, two ended up at 40 psi and two ended up at 35 psi. The screen was blinking crazily, but it seemed to settle at 37.0. When I set it to 31 to fill my 35s, two ended up at 28 and two at 29. In between I had to turn it off and on several times due to the “Err” message.
Update: I was contacted by Morrflate (after I commented on a FB ad), which explained that early models had bugs and offered to send a replacement. Assuming that actually happens, I’ll update this review with what I learn.
Update 2: I received a replacement from MORRflate. The good news is that most of the bugs are gone. The bad news is that one annoying bug is not.
I tested it on my wife’s car, with tires I keep at 33 psi, and on my two Jeeps—one with 33s that I keep at 37 psi, and one with 35s that I keep at 31 psi. I’m mentioning this because changing the set point still causes failures.
When I changed the pressure without turning the device off and the back on again, I could lower the pressure without a problem; but if I tried to raise it the setting would immediately jump from 31 to 37.
I could lower it from there, but if I overshot it would jump again. For instance, I was at 31 and wanted to go to 32. I hit the “+” button and it jumped directly to 37. I hit the “-“ button a few times and could get back down to 32. But if I made a mistake and pressed the “-“ button one extra time, I’d be back to 31 as expected. One press of the “+” button and I wouldn’t get to 32 but instead back up to 37.
This bug is very annoying. If I got it new, I’d send it back and demand they fix it. But at this point, I’m going to live with it. It’s just hard to believe that nobody noticed this bug before they shipped it. Didn’t they use it to inflate a bunch of tires? Or maybe the dev work is actually contracted out overseas, and they’re stuck with whatever they’re buying. Or maybe something else. I don’t know. But it’s kind of a dud.
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