N/A Digital gauges on your reg

This was one of the reasons I didn't go digital. The creep on that reg is a little less than 60PSI by my calculations. I'd rather not know about it, myself. I'd just leave it, with an eye on it to observe it doesn't get worse. Chances are it'll settle out. Aren't you glad you got that digital gauge?

On my two rifle, pressure will also fluctuate a couple of bar.

Normal, that's the curse of the digital gauges.

R0B said:

I took the plunge a few weeks ago and bought some sekhmet gauges. They landed the other day, so I've fitted one to my DRS and two to my Dynamic. I have noticed that my Dynamic reg refills to (UK 12 ft/lbs) 72 BAR immediately, but left overnight creeps to 76 BAR. I wouldn't have noticed on a 'normal' gauge..............is this expected or out of tolerance?. Should I strip, clean, polish and moly the bellville washers or just leave it alone?

Rob

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I never used them but i remember reading online they had a leak isue not saying thats what is going on with yours just wanted to at least tell you what i heard and huma air makes them half the price i hope this helps in some way

I agree I put digital gauge on mine I had 5 bar of creep which if you think about it it is under 100 psi and on a dail gauge that would not be seen so 3 bar is nothing in my opinion

You must spend hours and hours agonizing over any changes then the light will dawn that...OH YEAH IT DON'T MATTER NONE.

I just use mine to set the regulators and forget about it until I check it again at some point. My gauges are cheapies from Amazon, functional is good.

I just put an Amazon digital one on my Ghost to troubleshoot the an FPS issue. The tiny, hard to read Huma never seemed to move. Now I can't stop staring at the digital thing. I'll probably put a 28mm Wika on it once things are fixed.

I can see the value of a digital gauge for troubleshooting as you are doing. But as a practical matter, I actually prefer the analog version because it provides a visual reference I don't need to think about in terms of numbers, per se. That and I just know getting detailed pressure info would distract me incessantly!

I don't see how a digital gauge helps troubleshoot anything, if you've got 5% creep or so it'll appear on an analogue, it's always clear when my regulator is in an over-pressurized state...

For the crowd that wants precision on their regulator output settings and/or knowing where it is at any given time let em toot their horn, but personally I don't care and analogue = one less thing to worry about, if not two or three considering you have to worry about them failing over time, or batteries/charge going out at the worse time.

-Matt

Those wika gauges coming on these guns are not very accurate. My reg was 8 bar to high and the bottle was 5. Nothing wrong with wanting something accurate. Each to its own.

Ta-Ta Toothie said:

Those wika gauges coming on these guns are not very accurate. My reg was 8 bar to high and the bottle was 5. Nothing wrong with wanting something accurate. Each to its own.

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You can re-calibrate analogue gauges to be equally accurate, it's an initial step I take with every micro gauge I run.

-Matt

Stubbers said:

You can re-calibrate analogue gauges to be equally accurate, it's an initial step I take with every micro gauge I run.

-Matt

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Yeah, prying off the cover and readjusting the needed with a know accurate gauge. I didn't want to bother.

And for my eyes, it's easier reading the digital so that a big plus.

Can't read em when they fail or when the batteries die.

-Matt

I won't disagree on that. I was hesitant to put one on the bottle, but couldn't stand the look of one on top of the other. Best to keep the old ones for a quick backup.

My analogue gauge shows 3 bar/50 psi increments, any creep less than that I couldn't be bothered by.

It's used simply as a reference, am I on reg or off? lol.

-Matt

Since digital gauges came out, I’ve always joked about guys suffering from DGS. Digital Gauge Syndrome. Either get out ahead of the disorder or switch back to analog because you’re wasting fun time staring and obsessing the little device on your gun. Just like a cell phone, we are moths drawn to a flame.

You pick whatever works for you.