Budget vs Premium Mini Bike Electric Pumps / Fanttik X9 ACE vs Cycsplus Pro Max

0:00 so over this last year I pretty much have stopped using my floor pump and also small hand pumps on the trail I've switched over to these battery powered mini compressors these things are absolutely awesome and I've tested several different brands including this one from the psych plus company which is an absolute awesome pump and my go-to however fantic reached out to me and they asked me to test out their X9 Ace which is one of their new Mini pumps that can run for up to 25 minutes straight without overheating but we're going to do some tests and compare it to this $129 pump offered by psych plus compared to the $39 X9 Ace by fantic now let's take a quick look at some of the cool features that come on this fantic now

0:46 this is a little bit more Hefty when you're comparing it to say the psych plus models including this super tiny version now one thing that's kind of nice is that this does come with a swivel hose on it so you can basically turn this any direction and then the head also swivels what's really cool about this and it's going to be a big advantage over say the psych plus models is that this is attached all the time and this has prea and shraer built in so if you're currently set up like I am right here with shraer and you want to switch over to prea you just simply unscrew this little end right here and then you flip it over and you put the shraer side down on that little screw on

1:34 part and there you go now you're ready for a press the valve it's that easy to switch over and you don't have to ever worry about forgetting this because the unit will not work without this hose or without this end so it's always attached so to turn this on it's super easy you just hold down this button here it'll turn on and show you the last setting that you used which is really cool but if you need to adjust it it's super super simple they made this really really easy to do once you've got that adjusted you can then just simply just tap this button here it'll turn on the unit and this is actually surprisingly really quiet just for comparison let's turn on the psych plus uh Max Pro and show you guys what

2:20 it sounds like now let's turn on the fantic it's quite a bit quieter it's not quite as aggressive I would say it sounds like the pump is moving a little bit slower so we'll see if this one actually airs up faster than the psych Plus or if the psych plus with that more aggressive sounding motor in there airs up quicker than the fantic but up top you do have some venting up here and then down here you have venting and that's one of the key technologies that fantic says that makes this possible to run for 25 minutes straight now the psych plus can get really warm that's why they put

3:06 these silicone cases around it but with the fantic you don't need that because it's got a cooling system built in now this has a massive 18w battery and this one has around 600 milliamp hours now as for weight this is a 200 g pump where this is over 400 GS so the size comparison as you can see there is a big comparison in size and if you went with the smallest psych plus that doesn't have any gauges on it it's even smaller but to keep it fair I wanted to do the ones that were closest and this one is definitely closer with the gauge on it and about how many tires this can pump up but with the bigger battery this fantic should last quite a bit longer let's go ahead and let's do a timed test

3:52 to see how long it takes to air up a standard mountain bike tire with the fantic versus the psych plus okay so I've got a mountain bike tire here this is a 29x 2.35 in tire and this is pretty much the standard size tire that I run on a lot of my bikes I'm going to use my tow Peak gauge and we're going to get this down to say around 5 PSI as a starting point and we're going to try to air this up to 25 psi and I'm going to time it and see exactly how long it takes for both pumps to get to 25 psi all right so right now I'm showing five PSI on the top peque gauge let's go ahead and hook up the fantic and see how long it takes to air up this tire to 25 psi now of course we'll check the accuracy of these two with the tow Peak

4:38 gauge we start at five with the tow Peak gauge but this may not be reading the same we're going to have to see whenever we hook it up so with the fantic we got to make sure that we're on the prea valve setting and I am and let's just see how easy this is to kind of get lined up got it on there now you can just kind of thread this on once you've got it threaded on there it's nice you don't have to hold it or worry about it and that 360° swivels both here and here kind of let you line it up however you would like so let's go ahead and turn the unit on we're going to put this down to 25 psi and then we'll see what it's going to read for the actual tire pressure 5 PSI so it was exactly accurate with the top peque gauge so that's a good sign let's go ahead and

5:25 hit start and see how long it takes there we go fully filled up we'll have to check the time to see how quickly this fantic pump actually aired up this tire let's go ahead and take this off put it down to 5 PSI and then try the psych plus Max Pro all right we are showing five PSI on the top peak gauge let's go ahead and hook up the psych plus now a quick note on the psych Plus I've got this set up for prea on the push on style you do have an option for a thread on and you can put a prea adapter in there but I usually keep this

6:11 particular setup for my shraer valves you do have to have this separate from this this would thread on here like this and you'd have to keep it all together all right let's go ahead and hook this up I've got this set to 25 psi let's see how accurate it is it's showing six PSI 7 PSI compared to the top peque gauge so this one seems to be a little bit off compared to the top peque gauge but we're going to go ahead and go with that because I definitely want to run all these tests based off of what the top peque gauge actually shows and that was showing 5 PSI now this one is showing seven let's go ahead and just hit the start button and see how long it takes to get to 25 psi based off of this particular model oh instantly jump to 13

7:00 14 not a good sign for the psych plus this is airing up really fast already at 25 oh just dropped down to 22 this is reading 20 psi so let's see if this can get back up to 25 psi now we're reading 21 PSI which is pretty close to what the tow Peak gauge was reading jumped up really fast again now dropped down to 22 now this is one thing that I've experienced with the psych plus pumps is that sometimes it'll get to the PSI really quick and I kind of equated that

7:46 to being that they're tubeless and maybe there's some sealant in the valves but the fantic didn't seem to have that issue so 23 PSI after a few tries let's see what this is reading now this is reading 21 PSI now just for fun let's hook up the fantic all right let's see if I can hook this up without losing any of the air we lost a little bit last time I hooked this up well that went pretty well let's see if it'll read the pressure not reading any pressure okay I had to get it started once I got it started it's reading 20 psi let's go ahead and air this up to 25 and

8:32 see how accurate it is again that ran for quite a while and it hit 25 psi Let's test this again with the top peak gauge and then I want to throw on the psych plus just to see what it actually reads this shows 24 PSI so I would say the fantic is super accurate let's see if this is going to show around 24 PSI also all right got this connected in let's get that to where it goes to zero plug this on and it shows 26 PSI so I would say that the psych plus tends to read High where the fantic seems to read more

9:20 accurately based off of this tow Peak smart gauge so if you're wanting super accurate pressures the fantic is definitely going to be the way to go if you're wanting it to air up your tire quite a bit quicker then the psych plus might be the option for you so the fantic performed amazingly well I really like a lot of the features that are on this I would say the two downfalls of this are the overall weight and size it's just a little bit heavier and bulkier than the psych plus Max Pro so for only $39 this thing is an absolute steal When comparing it to a $130 Pump It performed more accurately it was a little bit slower it is a little bit heavier and you do have to deal with

10:06 this little kind of tube right here but you get some advantages like having prea and shraer always on this it's a 360° turn on each of the pivots and it's a little bit quieter and for a fraction of the price you could buy a couple of these put them in your packs and never have to worry about having a pump again these things are absolutely cool if you haven't used these type of pumps before they're really starting to make their way in the market I highly recommend them once you have a flat out on the trail or out on the road and you don't have to use one of those tiny hand pumps you're definitely not going to go back to a regular pump all right guys if you want to pick one of these fantic pumps up I'll put some links down below for 39 bucks I think you get a really killer

10:52 deal with just a few minor downfalls but at this price point I think it's well worth it all right guys now get out there and ride your bike