I bought the Oxygen Aeration Kit from Williams Brewing to try to improve my fermentation. I bought one of the standard red oxygen cylinders from my local hardware store, hooked the regulator system up, opened the valve and nothing happened. No bubbles, no air, nothing.
I pulled the hose off the regulator the check the air flow and there was no air coming out at all. I thought maybe I got a bad bottle so I took it back and picked up a different brand cylinder from a different hardware store. Same results. I contacted Williams and they sent me a new regulator but I'm still having the same issues - no air flow. My assumption was that if I opened the valve all the way open there would be significant airflow since the tank is under pressure. Am I wrong about this?
As a last experiment I pulled the stone off and just put the hose in the water. When I did this I was able to get some bubbles out and they would start and stop as I opened the regulator but there wasn't anywhere close to enough pressure to push air through the stone.
Any ideas on what might be going wrong? Did I just get two bad bottles of oxygen? Any other ideas on how I can trouble shoot the problem?
I pulled the hose off the regulator the check the air flow and there was no air coming out at all. I thought maybe I got a bad bottle so I took it back and picked up a different brand cylinder from a different hardware store. Same results. I contacted Williams and they sent me a new regulator but I'm still having the same issues - no air flow. My assumption was that if I opened the valve all the way open there would be significant airflow since the tank is under pressure. Am I wrong about this?
As a last experiment I pulled the stone off and just put the hose in the water. When I did this I was able to get some bubbles out and they would start and stop as I opened the regulator but there wasn't anywhere close to enough pressure to push air through the stone.
Any ideas on what might be going wrong? Did I just get two bad bottles of oxygen? Any other ideas on how I can trouble shoot the problem?