Battery Powered Inflatable Paddleboard Pump Recommendations?

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Old406Kid

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Our family is outfitting our 18 year old granddaughter with an inflatable stand up paddleboard and accessories for Christmas and we would like to purchase a pump.
Looking for recommendations on something that will reliably inflate and deflate on a single battery charge.
I thought this might be a good choice but admittedly don't know squat about it.
www.vevor.com

VEVOR Battery Operated Paddle Board Pump – 20PSI, 2 SUPs

Inflate 9.5 ft SUPs quickly with the VEVOR 20 PSI battery-operated pump. Built-in battery, 7 nozzles, auto-off, LED light, and power bank. Order yours today!
www.vevor.com www.vevor.com
 
Ryobi has some options, for inflate at least.
Not sure if their products deflate.
SF
 
Not familiar with stand up paddle boards, but there are a number of inexpensive inflatable devices that plug into 12 volt or 110. Most of them will not fully inflate a device and require something like a K-pump to top them off. I bought a cheap inflator that works for my frameless pontoon. PM me if you want the Amazon link. There are devices that help with deflating, but I’ve never needed them for my boat.
 
I've had the Ryobi pump that uses the 18 V battery that is shared with my Ryobi drill, screwdriver, and hedge trimmer. It will do multiply inflations of my Watermaster and Flycraft inflatables or Fat Cat float tube. It also deflates, which is about the only way I can get them down to convenient packing bulk.
 
I also have the Gen 1 Ryobi dual-mode pump (high volume or high pressure). I inflated a Scadden Renegade quickly. I used a K Pump to top off. I would think that a larger K Pump would fill a paddleboard in short order.
 
I notice that K Pumps have 2 that are specific to SUP providing up to 25 psi, as SUP need anywhere from 15-22 psi, vs what pontoon or raft need. The regular K100 their site shows, only goes to 8 psi
 
I use the outdoor master shark 2 for my Sup and inflatable kayak with rigid bottom

Can inflate 3 1/2 boards up to 20 psi each on one charge, plus you can also use it while plugged in with included cigarette adapter . Takes about 8 min. No need to have a manual pump to top off

Negative, it takes a long time to fully charge the unit (12+ hrs). But you can plug it in overnight.
 
Inflatable paddleboards are different than toons or rafts or other LP floaties. Just a couple psi (say the difference between 17 and 20) can make the difference between a board that handles as designed and one that paddles like a pig.

Don't know about pumps with integrated batteries, but I've burned out two 12V high-pressure pumps (one Bravo, can't remember the other brand) in the past 9 years with moderate use. Current pump is an Outdoor Master. Sounds like a jet at takeoff. I use a K-200 as a backup, not so much for topoff. You'll wind up with Popeye-arm trying to get much over 20psi with a K-pump on the regular...
 
First off, I want to thank everyone for their input.
That said, I spent a couple of hours Googling the subject last night and came to the conclusion that most of them are poorly made crap in one way or another. The other side of the family is setting up our step granddaughter with the same board and accessories so I was releived when my wife told me that they texted her the info for "THE PUMP" to get. I said "great", get it ordered.
Here we are an hour later and my curiosity got the better of me as to why this one was better than the others so I went to the Amazon one star reviews, see below, and found that there's a good chance that it could be 70$ down the crapper.:(
Thank heavens for reviews but it sure is frustrating on how many, like almost the majority, of products manufactured today are so poorly made. I just went throught the same thing a couple of weeks ago while looking for something as simple as a heated mattress pad and ended up feeling robbed of a couple of hours of life, which BTW is damn precious as a 76 year old, and ordering nothing.
Back to the pump, I guess it's either I shut up and hope we are lucky or jump back in the ring.
End of rant.
:)
 
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