Low vs High Pressure CO2 Setup

[dmcmillen]

I'm working on my setting up my co2 system for my keezer. I already have a couple of co2 tanks and a single body regulator (with high pressure gauge). I was planning on keeping the tank outside the keezer and running the co2 hose from the single body to a 2-body secondary in the keezer. From each body I will be running a 4-way manifold.

KegConnection is suggesting that it would be better to run a high pressure line directly from the tank to the 2-body in the keezer. I have no problem doing that but the high pressure line is $41.95 and that's the cheapest I've found.

Is there a problem running from the low pressure side of the single body on the tank? I see lots of setups that way on the forum. Maybe I can't get enough pressure off the low side of the tank to feed 8 kegs???

 

[Golddiggie]

I have a dual body regulator on my CO2 tank, outside the brew fridge, feeding two manifolds inside the fridge. This way I have better visibility of the regulator, as well as control over the pressure each body is feeding to the manifolds. Doing it this way takes another step our of your design, and an expensive hose from theirs. 5/16" ID gas line is pretty cheap. I actually have a good amount of 'spare' gas line on hand at all times (same with 3/16" ID beer line) since you never know when you'll need to make another line.