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Good point purging large volumes, especially on exotics, but when purging small volumes more likely to get problems from excessive flow rates due to turbulence etc. The resolution on GasIQ flowmeters is beyond coarse and what bugs us is that you don't appear to get a choice anymore which is a bit pants from what's supposed to be, and is marketed as, among the best you can buy. More so given a large part of their marketing spiel is about gas savings...
As Richard said one of the reasons i went with seperate bits is so they can replaced easily if i break something. The other is because it got cobbled together over time... the Harris flowmeter is the one that came with the v205, reg is the same type but newer and the Y splitter (along with a normal flowmeter) got added eons ago. I almost bought an optimator II but decided the stand alone flowmeter made more sense and was a chunk cheaper. More spendy than something like a Harris 603 gas saver but a neater solution as it's built into the flowmeter
Very true and you'll have a proper multi stage regulator, my way with a dual stage reg would cost more if starting from scratch and most(?) dual stage regs have the outlet pointing down at an angle so the Y splitter and flowmeters sit at a daft and useless angle comlicating things.
As Richard said one of the reasons i went with seperate bits is so they can replaced easily if i break something. The other is because it got cobbled together over time... the Harris flowmeter is the one that came with the v205, reg is the same type but newer and the Y splitter (along with a normal flowmeter) got added eons ago. I almost bought an optimator II but decided the stand alone flowmeter made more sense and was a chunk cheaper. More spendy than something like a Harris 603 gas saver but a neater solution as it's built into the flowmeter
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Identical to mine.
Enjoy!
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Initial strike up is the impressive bit. You've used mine before so you'll know what to expect.
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Awesome ain't they with the HF. Pin point delivery.
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It is very hard to believe, or infact convince a non believer the amount of gas you can save.
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The gas saving on these things is no different to any other good quality multistage reg so it's really not that difficult to believe as we know how a multistage reg saves gas ref it's reaction time to start up surges and it's stability towards the end of a cylinder where the surges come back. If your doing lots of short runs or tacks the savings can be huge.
However where the elga set up shines through is its gas delivery. How that is achieved I'm not so sure but it's so refined and it Carrys hf exactly where you want it every time. Even through a collet body the gas delivery is so much nicer and this is where it shines for me. If I just wanted a gas saver I'd cobble up a much cheaper multistage and probably achieve the same results.
