Primary and Secondary Regs?

[Sean Diamond]

Hopefully next weekend i'll be getting myself a black dragun. It has a reg built into the bottom line i believe. Now correct me if i'm wrong, with CO2 this just gives better consistency right? If at a later date i was to upgrade to a air system that has a preset reg, what goes on with the two regs. Its all a tad confusing to a begginer...

 

[Reflex]

Check in the newbies area. Under WHAT WEBSITE TO BUY AIR or sumthing like that at the bottom of the first page it kinda explains it.

 

[Sean Diamond]

I had a look but still don't quite understand it. Can someone in the know please explain what regs do!?

 

[spyderflashlcd23]

regs sort of restrict air flow i think they only allow somuch air past it at one time they are better for your guns velocity when shooting i think

 

[ciaran.mooney]

In short it wouldnt do any harm for your Black Dragon to have two regs. Though if both are set to 800psi (i assume if its a preset system) it could restrict the airflow.

 

[Graham-DV8]

Having two regs is better if your using CO2 sinces if fluxuates a hell of alot more then air (almost 0 with a max flow) where as with co2 you may get a "hot" shot at say 310psi and then another sht strigt after at say 270psi which can be very bad on the croney and illegal.

With you using co2 I would recommed having two regs.

 

[Sean Diamond]

I think i understand now. So initially say you had a range of 270psi to 310psi. A primary reg might make this 290 to 305 and then the secondary reg would make it even better and get it 295 to 300. The figures are made up, but is that what it does?

 

[steve_e]

Right lets try and clear up a couple of things! Firstly if your gonna use CO2 on an electro theres a couple of things that you need. The first being an anti-syphon tube in the bottle, the next ideally dual regualtion. The reason is to stop any possiblilty of liquid CO2 entering into the solenoid of the gun, as you can understand liquids and electric don't mix!

On the lower end electros that run at 800psi the single reg should be fine as long as you use an anti-syphon tube. On higher end electros which operate at lower psi the double regulation is recommended (note recommended not required!) to ensure spikes are kept to a minimum and liquid is kept out.

After all most guns out there using Air systems are dual regulated as it provide a far more consistant supply of air.

Hope that explains it!

Steve

 

[Beaker]

OK this is going to sound really stupid but bear with me

When I was first starting out and getting into mucking around with air systems and markers I had the whole thing explained to me like this and it's pretty simple - think of water

The water behind a dam - this is your air at 4500
The dam controls the flow to a "reasonable rate" - this is the primary air reg (e.g. Melee) 4500psi down to 800psi
The Water company controls the flow to your house - this is the secondary/inline reg into the gun - e.g. 800psi down to 300psi
You turn your tap on or off when you need it - this is the valve in the gun allowing the 300psi air to shoot the paint.

I know it sound stupid but it does fit

 

[Sean Diamond]

Nice idea. If you only had one reg would it just go straight from 4500 to 800 then? So the secondary reg is purely the exact output presure for your marker?