I'm trying to wrap my head around Huma's regulator design & I don't mean to call out Huma specifically. I own their products & believe their machining quality/finish is 2nd to none. In reality my questions could be applied to all PCP regulated air rifles.
In reference to the regulators in pcp guns they all seem to use spring washers are providing the resistance to the flow of air from a high pressure to a low pressure. As that pressure difference increases the resistance to flow weakens & the flow increases. As the difference lowers the resistance to flow increases & the transfer lowers. this process never completes. the transfer tapers off to infinity & thus never completing the transfer. The amount of transfer can be so small that our tiny gauges would never be able to show the difference, nor could we hear the common hiss of that tiny amount of air passing thru the regulators. This process begins & continues once we place air into the gun & never completes until the gun is void of any pressure.
Is this how all pcp regulators are designed or is there any regulators that incorporate some sort hysteresis in order to achieve a complete seal? Do they all gradually taper off the transfer between high & low chambers to such a small amount that we just view it as a "complete seal"?
Nietzsche
In reference to the regulators in pcp guns they all seem to use spring washers are providing the resistance to the flow of air from a high pressure to a low pressure. As that pressure difference increases the resistance to flow weakens & the flow increases. As the difference lowers the resistance to flow increases & the transfer lowers. this process never completes. the transfer tapers off to infinity & thus never completing the transfer. The amount of transfer can be so small that our tiny gauges would never be able to show the difference, nor could we hear the common hiss of that tiny amount of air passing thru the regulators. This process begins & continues once we place air into the gun & never completes until the gun is void of any pressure.
Is this how all pcp regulators are designed or is there any regulators that incorporate some sort hysteresis in order to achieve a complete seal? Do they all gradually taper off the transfer between high & low chambers to such a small amount that we just view it as a "complete seal"?
Nietzsche