Since Scuba went to fill at 300Bar when I shoot it puts a little white smoke but it doesn't smell burnt or look like a diesel effect! It seems to be just the air coming out behind the pellet! Is it normal or not? Thank you very much
White smoke
- Thread starter ricardocabralsousa
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I’ve seen that kind of thing when weather conditions are exactly right. Have you observed this in more than one shooting session?
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I live in the Azores very humid and hot and inside the house I don't do it just do it on the outsire
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I think it happened at my club when the humidity was high and the temps were lower in the morning.
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startled the crap out of me the one time it happened , my first PCP @ $1600 . but only that one day , never happened again here .
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condensation warm or cool air suddenly mixing at muzzle. remember hp air expanding gets cold!
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I've had it happen here in Colorado where there is basically no humidity, its only 10-15% most of the time.
Personally I think its from excessive oil burning from the pellet. I've never, ever seen humid air itself go white...explain the science behind that please.
-Matt
Personally I think its from excessive oil burning from the pellet. I've never, ever seen humid air itself go white...explain the science behind that please.
-Matt
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Smoke is very different from frost, smoke lingers, and I have seen it and smelt it, frost dissipates much faster and is odorless...lmao. Plus frost isn't quite white, more grey, and much more transparent/light vs opaque.
TITLE: White Smoke...
If anyone questions the plume of air that airguns produce especially in cold weather, then we have all gone bonkers...
-Matt
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I’m going with condensation. The air in the airgun is pressurized and cooled to room temperature. Then it’s suddenly released and pressure drops to atmospheric, and for a moment that cloud of air is cooler and below the dew point. Voila, instant cloud.
There was no odor of combustion or sound of detonation in my example.
I suspect the word smoke came in here by translation. Portuguese is the primary language for our friends in the azores. Muito bom.
David
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Plume from airguns is very different than the white smoke I have experienced, I have experienced both.
-Matt
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I think most of us here are dudes and color differentiation isn’t our strong suit. Grey white it’s about the same. A light colored smoke is probably more accurate.
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It happens all the time when I shoot outside in high humidity. My Leshiy 9mm does it most often followed by the Ghost in 30.
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I agree, atmospheric results from two different air temperatures. My .30 sends a very visible plume when the conditions are just right.
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Wow after this we all should take a trip to NASA and build a rocket ship to see if we can lol
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There's an experiment like this I used to have my students do where they stand on sealed air filled 2 L Pepsi bottle with a little bit of water in it (and some smoke for particulate matter) for a while, and then open the cap - a cloud forms in the bottle, you can make a little puff of fog. Basically the same thing - standing on the bottle raises the pressure and temperature in the bottle which saturates the air with moisture. Jumping off the bottle causes a sudden pressure drop and cooling. water is condensing on the cold particulates exiting the muzzle in this case.
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