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Offline boar

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something kinda strange
« on: July 15, 2010, 09:22:14 PM »
i was shooting this evening trying to get a good chrono shot and i think i did but went to ramp it up a bit and see what that compressor was made of some where around 550 psi my gauge goes up real fast at first i thought it was just something wrong with the gauge but when i shot it at what the gauge said was 600 psi it discharged alot of air from the trigger side then after an unuasaly long delay it fired i now think that somewhere around 550 or so psi the piston warps or something sealing the leak from the trigger side to the tank side and just builds up pressure on the trigger side that would explain the long discharge b4 fireing hmm or i guess it could be the other way around and the pressure equlizes too fast to fire but that wouldnt explain the rapid climb of the gauge unless there is realy something wrong with the gauge thought and opinions welcome for now i guess with that valve is just a 500psi gun

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Re: something kinda strange
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2010, 04:27:37 AM »
i was shooting this evening trying to get a good chrono shot and i think i did but went to ramp it up a bit and see what that compressor was made of some where around 550 psi my gauge goes up real fast at first i thought it was just something wrong with the gauge but when i shot it at what the gauge said was 600 psi it discharged alot of air from the trigger side then after an unuasaly long delay it fired i now think that somewhere around 550 or so psi the piston warps or something sealing the leak from the trigger side to the tank side and just builds up pressure on the trigger side that would explain the long discharge b4 fireing hmm or i guess it could be the other way around and the pressure equlizes too fast to fire but that wouldnt explain the rapid climb of the gauge unless there is realy something wrong with the gauge thought and opinions welcome for now i guess with that valve is just a 500psi gun

Boar

I experienced the same thing.

You now know your max pressure is about 550 psi.

Keep it under that and it won't shoot up.

BTW I feed my a/c compressor input with 25 psi using a wobble pump.