Does your regulator do this? (video)

[Crispyvelo]

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[orangehero]

Where did you get the regulator? I have never seen the LP output on the side.

Assuming everything is connected and attached correctly, I would assume the PRV is faulty if it farts like that below 60 psi.

 

[chickypad]

It looks like someone rebuilt that wrong. I have micromatic regulators, the release valve is opposite the CO2 inlet. Isn't this your model? If so looks like the gas inlet and LP gauge are switched. According to the replacement part list the gas inlet and high pressure gauge are supposed to have left hand threads and the LP gauge R handed, I presume to prevent that from happening. Unless someone replaced yours with a L handed LP gauge.

Edit: I think my theory still doesn't make sense, would have had to somehow get R handed thread on the gas inlet. Maybe someone more handy will chime in.

 

[outside92129]

I have the same reg, slightly different configuration. Couple of possibilities:

1) safety valve is on the wrong port. Check the back of the reg, there should be a "LP" or "HP" lettering for each port. The beer pressure gauge should be on a LP port, tank pressure gauge should be on a HP port.

2) bad safety valve. If #1 above is ok, check your valve. Do you have an extra one to test?

But yes, you should be able to turn your CO2 on, set the pressure, and then just leave it.

 

[Crispyvelo]

Thanks for the replies. I'm at work now, but I'll double check the port lettering when I get home. When I called micro Matic the guy told me that the gas should be left threaded. I bought mine in eBay and it shipped from Ukraine...so who knows what I got! It came with the wrong size nut, so we had to take off the gas pin from the regulator to screw in the proper 320 nut. I had my neighbor do this and I think he meant ions that the gas was actually right threaded. Could this be a European thing (I.e. Not left threading the gas for safety)? Or maybe the guy I bought it from lied and it wasn't new? I'll see if I can dig up the eBay listing. It looked new when it arrived in all original micro Matic packaging.

 

[chickypad]

I remember your other thread now. Looking at your pic in that thread it does look like your buddy got the ports mixed up. The gas inlet and high pressure gauge should be opposite each other - the gas flows without restriction between the two. So those 2 could be swapped, but you can't swap with one of the ports at 90 degrees that are the low pressure R handed ports. In the pic in your original thread the configuration looks correct, though as I understand it you had the wrong nut.

 

[PapaO]

What Chickypad said
“The gas inlet and high pressure gauge should be opposite each other”. Then the low pressure gauge goes next to pressure relief valve. Then the y goes opposite low pressure gauge.

 

[Crispyvelo]

What Chickypad said
“The gas inlet and high pressure gauge should be opposite each other”. Then the low pressure gauge goes next to pressure relief valve. Then the y goes opposite low pressure gauge.

Thanks for the help! I'll check this as soon as I get home from work. I guess I'll have to recall the few homebrews I shared with my neighbor for helping me change the nut on the regulator if he put it back together wrong! :cross:

 

[Crispyvelo]

I flipped the valves around and voila! It works perfectly. Thanks soooooo much everyone. I'm sure I wasted most of my Co2 tank trying to figure all this out, but I'm glad it worked out.