Point me on the right direction, please ! lol

[ddavila06]

i know i know. is a SPACE issue. look behing my tank, a wall! and between the wall and the tank about 4 inches and varely fits when standing up there
besides these people on planted tank dot net sell so many of this..a person makes them and sells loads! i see nothing but good feedback but it seems so complicated at this point.
i don'th ave space for a real regulator and the extra 5# tank i have to sit at, but like i said if i shall fail then i shall get it out of my house and buy a splitter and about 15 feet of line.
i been messing around with this for about 3-4 weeks learning on the way because im a total newby with paintball stuff.

so the answer is NO Dave, Jim, other Jim. i could not have gotten a regular looking double stage regulator instead...besides i only spent about 45$ in parts lol and 3 crypt affinis and two nurii

[ddavila06]

ok! first act: hose blows up!
second act: hose does not blow up but inflates like a ballon!
third act, there is no third act!!
whats the movie called? "you were told so"

my ears are still ringing! the valve thats on now is so hard to work with...i barely managed to turn it on and it blew up the hose! then i tried opening slightly but is no use, the tubing started inflating inmediatly...

planted tank dot net here i go! anyone wants a complete NSA set up? lol (is better to laugh than to cry)

so changing subject, can anyone recommend a good splittler source?

BTW, Cristy i like that thing i bought, is easy to set up/use. thanks im keeping it!

[Jim Miller]

My last words on the subject:

The guy on TPT is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

You don't need a dual stage regulator. I have a regulator on my PB tank (in use, not spare) which services my 10g. I think it goes for $100 plus another $15 for the adapter. The needle valve isn't great and it has a fixed 30psi output pressure but it does very well pushing gas through the little 45mm in-tank ceramic diffuser I bought from GLA. Total cost for this not including PB tank is about $150 so it isn't cheap.

But it is safe and small.

I'd feel bad if I kept quiet about the safety issues and you got hurt. If you want to proceed anyway then OK.

Jim

[ddavila06]

here is a pic, just for you Jim
Too expensive for my budget, willl go with the splitter option.
thanks

[ingg]

Yeah, and.. interesting things happened.

A real regulator isn't any thicker than what you already have back there. You already know that.... not sure why space is such an issue. It is what, 3" thick front to back, scross the guages and solenoid?

And costs $80 or so shipped.

http://co2-canisters.com/contents/en-us/p10410.html

Then you add a conversion to thread to your paintball sized thread... $15 and ten minutes of finding the parts for it from Clippard or similar source? (*In my case, $15 and begging someone who knows them to show me the parts, hehe.)

And you are done....

15 minutes and $100, or how much time and scrap it.... (or as I think you are about to, run a tube around the corner of your kitchen doorway, and wait for it to get snagged by passing legs to yank it out....or drill a hole through your tile backsplash.....) pay the $100 and be done my friend.


Option C) actually buy one of the little paintball regulators, as seen here:

http://www.aquariumguys.com/2-paintball ... a_7c239900


I'd buy the real one and conversion (conversions sold for under $20 online as well as a kit btw, don't even have to look up parts to try and save the $3), just so the regulator could be used full sized in the future.


Heck, 2 minutes of googling, and found it as one piece here for 12 bucks:

http://www.rebelbrewer.com/shoppingcart ... pling.html



Sometimes, there is a reason for my laziness.

[ddavila06]

the funny thing is that i had a real regulator which was laying around...car broke and i needed an extra $450 bucks to fix by the end of the month (inspection due) so i sold that along with other $$ stuff i had been saving for situations like this =/
the issue is not the regulator itself but the space to put the actual co2 tank with the regulator. look at these pics:

pic for you Dave im having so much fun here!!