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Multiple Secondary Regulators (i.e. daisy chaining)?
I realize this board area is called "bottling" but a keg really is a big bottle, innit?
Anyway, I have a primary regulator on my CO2 tank which feeds a four-output secondary regulator so I can have different pressures on different beers. But as it happens, I've managed to craft room in my kegerator (well, a "keezer" but I hate that term) for more than 4 corneys. I'm currently considering whether or not I just want to get a gas distributor to feed additional kegs, or whether I want to have individual control over the CO2 in each keg.
One of the threshold questions is this: can I run a gas line from one of the outputs on the current secondary into the input on yet another multi-output secondary regulator? I can think of no reason why I couldn't, but I also can be somewhat thickheaded about these things and wanted to check. Obviously, I'd have to set the pressure on the "first" secondary to a level as high or higher than the highest pressure I want to distribute to the "second" secondary, but other than that, I can't see any complication beyond the price.
Any thoughts?
My setup has the main line coming off of my regulator supplying a 2 way manifold. I have one of these http://www.midwestsupplies.com/products … rodID=4192 on each port of the manifold, making 2 ports supply 4 supply lines. You can use these splitters at any point, directly from your regulator if you wish. the pressure will be the same obviously for each line assigned to each guage, but if you have a dual regulator already, you can now branch off of each. You can split from there using a T as many times as you want.
It's my understanding that regulators require high pressure input to properly regulate their outputs. But I think you can put as many regulators one after another up at the tank, each one taking as its input the high pressure output from the previous regulator.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm leaning towards splitting the gas line out of the primary regulator with a manifold or Wye (didn't even consider that, thanks thirsty!) and routing the resultant lines to two separate secondary regulators. It's more expensive than splitting the gas coming out of each of the secondaries, but the logistics of having one four-output secondary regulating multiple kegs when I have a full and rotating kegerator (7 kegs) with 3-4 different pressures gives me headaches... there'd be a lot of disconnecting and reconnecting to get on the "right pressure line". This way everything is on its own pressure, even if, for example, 4 of the brews at one time end up being kept at the same psi.
ksbrainard, I hadn't heard that, but it does make sense. Plus, why waste a "valuable" output out of a regulator when a splitter (wye or manifold) can do the same thing and keep that output free? (rhetorical question of course)
EDIT: how about this, with a little teflon tape:
http://www.micromatic.com/draft-keg-bee … -618B.html
can I just turn 2 4 output secondary regulators into an 8?
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