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Re: Pressurized CO2
Derek Johnson wrote:
<<<Can anyone explain how it
works? And why it is a fishkiller???
>>>
It's not a fishkiller. Tom Wood just has a thing against Dave Gomberg and
anything that has to do w/ his CO2 system. Tom gets REALLY hot under the
collar whenever Dave and the components to his CO2 system are mentioned.
Just a knee-jerk response from Tom. I agree w/ most of what Lobos said in
reply to your question Derek except for the following -
Lobos wrote:
<<<Unfortunately no diffusor, reactor or
injection into a filtering device that I know of can prevent this
dumping, because it is a failure of the regulator. >>>
Just wanted to correct what was referred to as a "regulator failure." The
CO2 dump is not a failure on the part of the regulator. Regulators are
simply not designed to handle the fluctuations or gradual drop in input
pressure when liquid CO2 is no longer present in the CO2 cylinder. So since
it wasn't designed for this, regulators are not a failure when liquid CO2
runs out. For a regulator to fail it would have to NOT be able to bring down
the pressure from a PRESET level input level to another lower pressure
level. It's not the regulator's fault that the preset level changes on it
and it can't do it's original job.
Lobos outlined 2 ways to prevent this "CO2 dump". Check out
http://www.aquabotanic.com/regulator.htm for a third way on how to prevent
the "dump".
Don
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