Testing A Regulator
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 4:18 pm
Hi all,
I have an old (not sure how old) hydrogen/methane regulator, Victor 452-350 regulator. I bought it 3 years ago from eBay and am about ready to make use of it.
However, I've never tested it or confirmed that it's working. I would prefer to know that it's functional before letting deuterium through it.
I don't need to have something perfectly calibrated. I want to be confident that if I turn the knob to a low setting, D2 will be admitted to the gas line at a correspondingly low pressure, without leaks or other problems. Further, I'd also like to know that the reading of the lecture bottle pressure on the regulator is approximately correct.
I saw on one of Andrew Seltzman's old threads that he tested a regulator by hooking it up to an Argon cylinder. Is there a standard practise for testing a regulator?
Tom
I have an old (not sure how old) hydrogen/methane regulator, Victor 452-350 regulator. I bought it 3 years ago from eBay and am about ready to make use of it.
However, I've never tested it or confirmed that it's working. I would prefer to know that it's functional before letting deuterium through it.
I don't need to have something perfectly calibrated. I want to be confident that if I turn the knob to a low setting, D2 will be admitted to the gas line at a correspondingly low pressure, without leaks or other problems. Further, I'd also like to know that the reading of the lecture bottle pressure on the regulator is approximately correct.
I saw on one of Andrew Seltzman's old threads that he tested a regulator by hooking it up to an Argon cylinder. Is there a standard practise for testing a regulator?
Tom