Air pressure regulator
Air pressure regulator
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Hi!
I have a mini-sized pressure regulator. It has 7/16'' in the inlet and outlet, reducing pressure from 10 bar to 3 bar. There is a reducer fitting, inlet is 7/16 and outlet is 1/4''. What happens if I install this fitting at the outlet of the pressure regulator? Since the fitting represents a sudden area reduction, does that reduction is added to that produced by the regulator?
Shop air is supplied at 10 bar by a 7/16 hose. The pneumatic actuator I want to diagnose has a 1/4 hose at its inlet, working at 3 bar.
Thanks.
Phileas.
I have a mini-sized pressure regulator. It has 7/16'' in the inlet and outlet, reducing pressure from 10 bar to 3 bar. There is a reducer fitting, inlet is 7/16 and outlet is 1/4''. What happens if I install this fitting at the outlet of the pressure regulator? Since the fitting represents a sudden area reduction, does that reduction is added to that produced by the regulator?
Shop air is supplied at 10 bar by a 7/16 hose. The pneumatic actuator I want to diagnose has a 1/4 hose at its inlet, working at 3 bar.
Thanks.
Phileas.





RE: Air pressure regulator
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RE: Air pressure regulator
The reducer will not have any effect on the regulator.