Issue with safety on regulator

[madpayas0]

I just got the last parts on my brew sculpture so that now its is functional. I connect up my propane tank, open up my valves and get a flame going on one burner. Everything looks good. I fire up a second burner and both burners drop to 3/4 flame. Not what I want but workable. I fire up the third burner and the automatic saftey on my regulator kicks in. It cuts all gas flow. Im using the Agri-Supply version of the Bayou big daddy burners. I am using Bayou Classic's 30psi regulator. Propane Regulator Kits, 30 PSI Propane Regulator Kit 5HPR30

Long story short.... Is there a way to turn the safety off? Or should I have gotten a different regulator?


Pic of rig

 

[jdieter]

Not aware of a safety device intrinsic to a gas regulator to prohibit excessive flow. They reduce psi of gas to ounces of pressure at a max. cfm delivery. Sounds like you've exceeded the max. cfm of this regulator. Need to get the max cfm of all your burners and size a regulator accordingly.

 

[Bobby_M]

It sounds more like your tank valve is sensing a surge of gas, assuming an emergency. This is part of the OPD valve standard. The agri supply reg doesn't have anything like that. Try closing all the burner valves, close the tank valve, then open it full slowly. Now open the burner valve slowly and light it and do the same of the others.

If this is not the case, it could just be that you're getting a pressure drop on the gas beam. I don't think a single tank/reg is going to cut the BTU requirement to run all three of those burners at the same time. You can probably fix this by plumbing in another gas port on the beam and adding a second tank and reg. It will keep the tank from icing up also.

 

[ColeR]

its a weird issue, Madpayas0 and i are having with his Reg.

1. we open the tank fully. (slowly)
2. open the 1 ball valve on the manifold.
3. we then open the needle valve a small amount.
4. light the burner, to get it going.

(we can get 2 burners going at a low burn this way.)

so alls good up to this point, if we continue to open the needle valve, a safety feature in the Reg thinks the line has been cut and shuts off the propane to the burner.

right before it shuts down, the Reg make a small amount of hissing noise, indicating to us that its the Reg not the OPD inside the propane tank. when this noise happens, if i back off the needle valve the noise goes away and the propane continues to flow.

edit part - i found this, seems like someone else has had this issue >>link to thread<<

we have another Reg showing on Friday for my brew rig, and we'll test that one as well, but I'm expecting the same result.

 

[Bobby_M]

We had that 0-30 Agri reg on our 3-BG10 burner stand and I was able to run it balls out without any problem. Sounds like a defective reg.

 

[outside92129]

i have the same reg and have no problems w/ multiple burners. My first set of tanks had issues cutting out but i switched them out and have been problem free ever since.

 

[ColeR]

We found the problem with the 2 regulator kits we bought, the regulators works just fine, its the input plastic/brass to the regulator part you screw on to the propane tank. see the pic.

They installed a check valve inside, don't when they started this, but i figured it out while talking about the problem, and i had that Epiphany moment, i happened to have a different regulator for a different application at my house. So we removed the input part and replaced it with the extra one i had.

this time every thing fired up just fine, all burners running at full.

We did this on both of our brew rigs, with the same result, stupid F'ing safety check valve almost cost me another $50-$100.

So for others starting out if you have problems with your burners not burning as you expect, change out the part pictured above, and all will be ok ..