Adding Secondary Regulators.

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I've tried searching around and looking at various builds and not finding much in the way of answers.

I'm upgrading from my 2 tap dorm fridge keggerator to an upright freezer that'll have 6+ taps. No longer can I deal with 1 regulator and a Y after it. I'd like to have 2-3 different pressures.

I currently have 2 different taprite single regulators with a hard connection to the CO2 tank.

It seems simple enough to remove the hard end of one and the high pressure gauge on another and put a piece of pipe between them to have 2 different pressures.

If I wanted 3, and all 3 to be regulated inside of the freezer. Is it best to have a single primary on the tank outside at 30PSI and the interior regs at their reduced rate? Or should I get some high pressure hose and go straight from the tank to the regulators? I'd ideally prefer not to have 3 different hoses going through the wall to the distribution blocks with 3 regulators outside.

With low pressure doesn't it mean I can only set the secondaries to at most -5psi from the primary?

I'm looking at kegconnection and the high vs low pressure is killing me.
 
I don't know about "best" but I have a main regulator on the tank set at 30 psi. From that I have a braided low pressure hose that is connected to my secondary regulators. If you've ever seen this Mythbusters show, then you know why I'd rather have a busted hose at 30 psi than a high pressure hose break on you at 800 psi, or whatever it is. I don't what to know what kind of damage that might cause in my keezer if one let lose. At it is, I'm very cautious whenever I move my CO2 tank around. One fall could be disastrous. :eek:

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