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air cosumption

jokersmoker

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now then chaps, i hope someone can help. i have a bushmaster 2000 that seems to just guzzle air! i can get about 400 shots out of a 1.1 3000psi bottle before its empty. is this right? just seems real low. thoughts please peeps.:confused:
 

jokersmoker

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now theres a source for an argument considering the recent court case between icd and smart parts! maybe its just the nature of the marker, 'cos the bottle/reg are not leaking and i've just set up the marker again today as per icd specs and still going thro air like no-ones business! any ideas chaps?? any one own a bushy that does the same? is it time to get a 1.5l 4500psi set up?!
 

Tom Allen

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The lower the marker runs at the hungrier it is for gas, i think a 4500psi is in order, it would give you at least double the shots.
 

Tom Allen

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Even if the marker that you are referring to, was to have it's pressure dropped it would use a greater proportion of gas.

The design of different markers enable them to work at greater or lower pressures, but generally a low pressure marker tends to be a gas guzzler. There are exeptions, but this is a general rule of thumb.