So Christmas time I purchased 2 wye splitters so I could upgrade my CO2 system. I have a primary and a secondary regulator. Since I unhooked everything to attach the wye splitters, I think I have a caused a leak somewhere, or maybe the secondary regulator is just broken. Anyways, after losing a full tank, I want to try and figure this out before I burn through more CO2
I have shutoff valves (4) on each output of the two wye splitters. I hooked up my regulators to the C02 tank and set the first one to about 27-28 range. I set the secondary up to 20 or so. I then turned off the CO2 at the tank. After 10 to 15 minutes I came back and the primary was holding at the 27-28, but the secondary was all the way up to the 50s. I vented it and turned the screw on the secondary all the way to the "off" position. After about 30 minutes the secondary was showing about 10 psi...
so am I leaking from the primary to the secondary? Is the secondary just broken? It probably took about 2-3 weeks for me to leak out the full 5lbs of C02 which I noticed yesterday and then refilled. I also noticed my two original mfl nuts did not have washers, so I will need to get them, but since I was doing this testing with the shut-off valves all off, I took that part out of the equation.
I have shutoff valves (4) on each output of the two wye splitters. I hooked up my regulators to the C02 tank and set the first one to about 27-28 range. I set the secondary up to 20 or so. I then turned off the CO2 at the tank. After 10 to 15 minutes I came back and the primary was holding at the 27-28, but the secondary was all the way up to the 50s. I vented it and turned the screw on the secondary all the way to the "off" position. After about 30 minutes the secondary was showing about 10 psi...
so am I leaking from the primary to the secondary? Is the secondary just broken? It probably took about 2-3 weeks for me to leak out the full 5lbs of C02 which I noticed yesterday and then refilled. I also noticed my two original mfl nuts did not have washers, so I will need to get them, but since I was doing this testing with the shut-off valves all off, I took that part out of the equation.