Air Lift SmartAir II Automatic-Leveling Compressor System for Air Helper Springs - Single Sensor

Video Transcript for Air Lift SmartAir II Automatic-Leveling Compressor System Review

Hey there, heavy haulers. Today, we're going to be taking a look at Air Lift's SmartAir II Automatic Leveling compressor system. These are available in either a single sensor kit or a dual sensor kit. The difference being is the single sensor is designed for load leveling front to back, but not side to side, where the dual sensor kit is for front, back, and side to side.I've taken the vehicle outside now and I put about a thousand pounds of weight in the back. As soon as I go to turn the key on it's going to arm the system and it's going to check our level sensor, determine if it needs to, and it's going to air up the bags. Let's go ahead and do that now.

You can see here how far out of line our magnet is. It should be here, but it's now up here because of all that weight. I've now turned the key on. We're going to give it a moment here so the system can analyze the sensor's current position. And in less than two minutes, the system levels itself all the way back out, as you can see here on our sensor, without us having to do anything other than turning the key on our vehicle.As you can see there, this is going to save you time at the job site, as well as any errands that you just have to reuse with your truck running around.

No more finding that gauge or that tape measure, anything else. Hit the key and go. You'll notice here that while I'm working, loading and unloading the vehicle, the airbags aren't going to inflate themselves, our compressor's not going to kick on unless we had the key on. This is nice so we know that when we're working things aren't going to be changing around us.I've now removed all that weight and I turned the key on in our vehicle. You're going to see here after a few moments, after analyzing the sensor, it's going to start releasing air pressure from our airbags.

Now without having to do anything, our vehicle's back to its factory ride height. Go in, start the truck, and I'm going to hit the road.Now, there are other compressor systems out there. This is one of my personal favorites because of how easy it is to install. It's not the easiest. The easiest is going to be Air Lift's all in one system, the compressors all mounted together.

That thing just mounts up super easy to wire and you can control it from your phone or with a remote. But what I like about this system over that system, even though it's a little bit more to install, is that you don't have any remotes or anything. It just works automatically using the onboard sensor. I never have to worry about checking any measurements and making sure I'm at the right level, checking the pressure in my bags, making sure everything's good there. This takes care of everything for me.I also like that there's no remote. I don't have to fiddle with any apps or press any buttons. It just does its thing. Compared to some of the other value compressors out there, this one is fairly economical, but the installation is much easier than the value models. With those, you have to route airlines not only to your airbags from your compressor, but you also have to route them inside to the switch that's going to inflate or deflate them, and there's just so much hose routing required. You have to do a lot more modifications to the vehicle to get everything routed up.This is what our compressor system looks like when it's installed. It mounts onto the frame of your vehicle and comes with all the hoses and wiring harness necessary to get it up and running. The exhaust valve here will automatically release pressure when the sensor for the system detects that the vehicle has been unloaded after a load was previously on it. This will let the air out of your airbags, so to return to your factory unloaded ride height. In the opposite event where you we're loading up your vehicle from a previously unloaded state, the compressor would kick on and then inflate the air bags until the vehicle came back up to the proper ride height. The system's able to do all this using the level sensor that you'll install on the frame, as well as on your leaf spring. The sensor on your frame here is static and the sensor that's here on your lease spring has an adjustable magnet to set the unloaded ride height position. Once you've got it set, at this point the system acts completely automatic.If it's unloaded, it will be at this state. So when you put weight in it, what's going to happen is the frame will drop down, so our magnet will be up higher here. The sensor will detect this and then it will inflate the airbags until the frame rises back up, bringing our magnet down to the center position here. Again, it works just the opposite. If you take that weight back out, the vehicle will then want to lift back up, so this sensor would be up here. The magnet would be somewhere down here. It would detect that it's not at level and let air out until it returned to that position.What this means for you is you no longer have to worry about the state of your vehicle when loading and unloading it, since the system automatically does everything for you. Typically if you had airbags on your vehicle, you would need to find an air source, whether it's at a gas station or an air compressor at your house, and then you'd have to inflate your bags. There are plenty of compressor systems out there that can do this without you needing to find that source and having it on your vehicle. But with those, you still have to either use a remote or a manual switch to increase or decrease the pressure.When doing all of that, you still need a tape measure or something outside so you can verify that you've returned to your factory ride height after you've done all this. With this system, you need no tools and you don't even need to do anything. You just put the load in, it automatically brings it up. You don't have to check anything afterwards. You just get in the vehicle and go. Ultimately, this is going to save you a lot of time. It's a lot easier to load up the vehicle, just hop in and go. You don't have to spend all that time running around the truck, manually inflating it, or anything else. Just go, go, go.Another thing I like about this kit is that it provides T fittings in it so you can still have a manual inflation valve. Now, both of these valves here are the ones that came with the airbags that came with the vehicle. When you install your kit, you will only be able to have one of operational, since the bags are piped together with the airlines. But in the event that your battery goes dead, you have something that goes on with your system and you need to inflate it manually, no problem. We've got that back here to keep us covered.Now, you might be asking yourself, well, how accurate is this sensor with this magnet here It's not a hundred percent perfect. It's not going to line up exactly in the center of this every single time, but it gets pretty darn close. It's accurate within 1/16th of an inch. Which 16th of an inch, is very, very small.The airbags we have installed on our vehicle here is from Air Lift. It's the Load Lifter 5,000 set. This is going to be great for your heavy duty trucks. They have a maximum pressure of a hundred PSI, which is perfect because it matches the output of our compressor, which also has a maximum of 100 PSI. This means that our compressor's going to be able to get the full benefit that our airbags could offer.One of the things you want to keep in mind with this system is that the airbags are hooked together into one compressor, also that we only have one sensor installed and it's on our passenger side here. It doesn't matter if it's on your driver or passenger side. But since the sensor is only on one side, the system's really not designed to work with an uneven load. Because if I load down this side which has the sensor on it, this side's going to drop and it's going to try to inflate this side. Well, if I only loaded down this side, it would cause that side to raise up and it would work opposite.Additionally, the compressor doesn't have a way to inflate the bags independently, since the airlines are plumbed together. But no worries. If you do want a kit that is similar and functionality to this but also has side to side load leveling, you can purchase a dual compressor kit here at etrailer.com, which comes with multiple of the components needed here, so each side has its own compressor, exhaust, and independently ran lines so they can work independently from one another. What's also nice about this dual kit is that the manual inflation valves at the back will still also function independently for each side. Because you know sometimes when you're hauling some things you get some objects that are very large, some are heavy and some art. You might have a box full of pillows over here and refrigerators over here. With the system that is dual compressors, it could easily adjust for that so we can go back down the road level and feel safe.That completes our look at Air Lift's SmartAir II Automatic Leveling compressor system.