Regulator? Double set up

[schupaul]

I just bought a second set of regulators off ebay that came off a commercial soda system. The problem I have is how do I mate these together. One says Primary with a max psi of 2000 and the other secondary with a max psi of 200. I would assume I would put the primary first coming off the bottle and then the secondary. Right now they have the Primary off the bottle and a hose coming off of that to the secondary. Then the secondary has 2 other lines out. I want to take out the extra hose and just make it a double reg and run 2 barbs off of each for the chiller in the garage.

 

[bad coffee]

all you need is a 1/4" nipple and some teflon tape

http://www.fdsons.com/images/plumbing/s4/6554430.JPG

 

[kirscp]

all you need is a 1/4" nipple and some teflon tape

http://www.fdsons.com/images/plumbing/s4/6554430.JPG

NO!

The Primary needs 500lbs MIN and 2000 MAX!

The Secondary is 200lbs MAX!

Primary's can be piggybacked, BUT a secondary has to be supplied by a primary, to cut the pressure.

A primary regulator has two high pressure inlet/outlets and two low pressure inlet/outlets. One low is for the gauge and the other is your outlet. One high is the high in, supplied by the tank, and the second would be for the gauge or piggy backing a second primary.

Your primary and secondary can only supply ONE pressure, basically, they are one regulator.

 

[camiller]

If your thinking of mounting it of the left of the primary where the high pressure gauge would go, you can't, that port is full bottle pressure. You could use a nipple like bad coffee suggested to mount it off the bottom, essentially replacing the hose with the nipple. When ever you see something like this, all of the regulators are "primaries", thats why the high pressure gauge on the left works.

Edit: kirscp beat me.

 

[schupaul]

That is exactly what I want. Should I just bail on the secondary and put a 4 barb manifold on it. I was hoping to have this cheap setup to force carb and condition under pressure. I have a 20# bottle that I don't want in the house near my kegerator. I use a 5# inside the fridge. This is the unit that I purchased. for $30.

http://i19.ebayimg.com/07/i/001/1e/6f/eb4b_1.JPG

 

[kirscp]

What I would do is, Take the CO2 tank connector off of the primary you purchased, take the tank pressure gauge off the primary you already have, and get the nipple bad coffee showed. I picked one up at my local hardware store for under $2.00. Connect the two primaries together.

I'd hang onto the secondary. You may want to purchase a few more. With the two primary set up, you could have one primary supply your secondaries inside your kegerator, and the second primary could supply CO2, to whatever you have outside your kegerator.

If you feel that you won't be using the secondary at all, you could always just list it on eBay!

 

[kirscp]

Here are my 3 primaries hooked up. I had one, then got a deal on a double setup. Once I get the collar on my keezer I'll be putting the tank outside, It now takes up the room of 2 kegs!

I also ended up trading in my nice aluminum tank for that ugly steel one. Oh well, the price is right.

On my regulators, the left to right is the high pressure and the up and down is the low pressure.

 

[jonp9576]

you cant hook them right to each other with 1/4 to 1/4 pipe. you will blow up the second reg. it says 200 psi max. dont go over that. you need to go from the output of the primary to the input of the secondary. then split it there, but y do that. just split the primary. IMO

 

[billtzk]

Here are some pictures of one that kvh built. It's handy because he listed the part numbers from McMaster.

kvh regulator version 1
kvh regulator version 2

And here is a thread about secondary regulators with lots of good info, and kvh explains how he made those in the pics above somewhat:

Maybe a good deal on an second regulator?

and another possibly useful thread:
Manifold Project