Understanding High-Efficiency Airless (HEA) Tips

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High-Efficiency Airless (HEA) tips, such as those made by Titan, are designed to operate at lower pressures (around 800-1100 PSI). While they claim to reduce overspray, the speaker notes that from his experience, HEA tips produce larger paint droplets. This can result in more wet overspray fallout on surrounding areas like walkways and driveways if the paint doesn't flash dry before hitting the ground. They are generally better suited for interior painting where overspray control is less critical and a feathered fan pattern is desirable.

Goal: Evaluate the pros and cons of HEA tips for different painting scenarios.

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Titan HEA Spray Tips Titan — Applying paint at lower pressures, typically for interior use or when wet overspray is not a major concern

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I want to talk about haa tips so they're high efficiency airless tips uh by Titan they run at low pressures um 800 to 1100 PSI and from my um testing and experimenting you know on an exterior the droplets are a lot bigger with an ha tip so you you what um I found you know if you're over walkways driveways Etc or you're spraying like sofits overhead you're getting a lot more um wet overspray Fallout so you're going to be getting your know wet paint falling in your face if it's not flash drying before it hits the ground because the droplets are too um too big you're going to get wet overspray landing on um driveways sidewalks Etc stuff like that haa tips are great tips uh for interior painting where I I don't think where you don't have to worry about overspray they do give a really nice um good feathered fan on it uh versus production tips that give kind of more of a sharp edge I do like them for um interior painting especially for uh ceilings I'll talk about Graco rack X LP tips they're low press tips kind of like a version of an haa tip a lot of these manufacturers of heirless tips are going to low pressure because of people's fear for overspray I don't think they really like resolve the problem by going to low pressure

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