I'm not power-hungry so 150 BAR will work for me, but Maverick is ahead in this category. I'm sure FX will offer regulators with different settings as option.
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Been thinking about how fx did this. It’s quite an achievement when you think about it.Â
It is able to do 3 things and yet just looks like a simple small coupling between the bottle and the gun.Â
What does it do? First and foremost it is a regulator and controls the pressure from the bottle reducing it to the factory setting of 150bar.
Then it also must allow air through to the bottle from the filling.port for this it must have an open pathway through past the regulator.Â
Then also on this open line from fill port to bottle they have a gauge for bottle pressure.Â
Putting it basically in the neck of the bottle takes up no room and doesn’t require any changes to the way the gun looks. Really clever.Â
If you went back 5 years to the first Impact could you imagine how it might have changed the guns evolution if this had been there first choice for regulator position!Â
Yes on the gun side of the regulator you now have “2” sealing orings. The fill airs dedicated path way would run between them. Then the regulator has its own oring to isolate its regulated air on its way to reg no 2.Â
The m3 would have a new internal sealing surface for the regulated air.
You can see an inner and outer orings in the photo.
I've made some drawings on the differences:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CO-znMKhdHy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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Except for the difference in thread there is also a difference in where the air is channeled. This also makes it harder to make it backwards compatible