Help with Ca Reactor Please!!
- Thread starter pookstreet
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Mchava
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Hey Kenny I know why your needle on the right does not move at all. What you want to do is take the chrome ring off. Has nothing to with the preasure, its just a protective cover. The softly take the valve and pry it to the right side of the pin. For some reason alot of them are comming in like that. Once you do this the needle will start to move left or right deppending on how you set up the preasure going out to the needle valve(brass nob). I set mine at 20psi.
Mchava
Active member
here are some links I got from JBNY site on setting up and tunning the reactor. Hope this help you out
http://www.cnidarianreef.com/faq.cfm?FID=37
http://www.cnidarianreef.com/faq.cfm?FID=37
This is what I think needs to be done. Release the pressure in the system by shutting off the valve on the tank and letting the trapped co2 in the valve out. what might be happening is you are adjusting the pressure on the other gauge but the pressure has to be released inorder to register the change on the gauge. so tighten the bottle valve, remove the co2 line from the reactor, plug in the solenoid, open the needle valve, evacuate the co2. reopen the tank valve, adjust the pressure down with the knob on the regulator, close the needle valve, reconnect the hoses.
pookstreet
Registered Stick Killer
Mario,
Thanks for the link. That was indeed very helpful. I tried what you suggested with the cover on the gauge and moving the needle to the right side of the pin. Didn't work at all even though I have let out all of the CO2 in the regulator and started everything back up. In fact, it didn't move at all so I think it has to be where it was before.
sammoorefield,
LOL.......I did just that before I read your post. I bled out the entire regulator and hoses and it's still where it was before. But I have figured out that the valve is still good, it's just the gauge that's bad with the needle pointing at the wrong place. By turning the knob counterclockwise all the way, I was able to shut off the operating pressure completely. By turning the knob clockwise, the gauge did move in the right direction and I just eyeballed the needle to where I think 15 psi is since there is no marking there. It seems like it's working fine now.
Thanks for the link. That was indeed very helpful. I tried what you suggested with the cover on the gauge and moving the needle to the right side of the pin. Didn't work at all even though I have let out all of the CO2 in the regulator and started everything back up. In fact, it didn't move at all so I think it has to be where it was before.
sammoorefield,
LOL.......I did just that before I read your post. I bled out the entire regulator and hoses and it's still where it was before. But I have figured out that the valve is still good, it's just the gauge that's bad with the needle pointing at the wrong place. By turning the knob counterclockwise all the way, I was able to shut off the operating pressure completely. By turning the knob clockwise, the gauge did move in the right direction and I just eyeballed the needle to where I think 15 psi is since there is no marking there. It seems like it's working fine now.
Mchava
Active member
kenny did you move it clock wise or counter clock wise. You have to lift the needle abit and move it clockwise so that it will be on the other side. Okay lets try this take the front cover off again. Pull the needle towards you the move it up just enogh to get it over the pin. Try that. Also set everything up, turn the triangle knob all the way to the left this its loose. Go ahead and open the cO2 valve (main valve). Now slowly move the triangle knob clockwise and see if the valve move at all. If not then the gauge is broken.
loc01
Active member
Hey Kenny,
When you got the regulator you said the knob was screwed in all the way, and I think that might damage the diaphram inside it. Have you tried to switch the gauges( right to left). Sometimes they installed it backward. Why don't you try to back the knob all the way out and then switch the gauges if one of the gauges reads Zero then slowly clockwise the knob till it reads 5-10 psi. Is that a Milwaukee regulator? I have seen this happened to the Milwaukee before.
Loc
When you got the regulator you said the knob was screwed in all the way, and I think that might damage the diaphram inside it. Have you tried to switch the gauges( right to left). Sometimes they installed it backward. Why don't you try to back the knob all the way out and then switch the gauges if one of the gauges reads Zero then slowly clockwise the knob till it reads 5-10 psi. Is that a Milwaukee regulator? I have seen this happened to the Milwaukee before.
Loc
pookstreet
Registered Stick Killer
Mario,
That's exactly what I did and the needle just sits there against the pin. I am pretty sure the gauge is broken b/c I can still control the flow with the knob in the front.
pookstreet
Registered Stick Killer
Loc,
Yeah, the front knob was screwed in the way in (open) when I got it. I don't think anything is damaged tho b/c when I close the valve, there is no CO2 coming out. I'll try switching the gauges tonight and see if there is a difference. I don't know what kind of regulator it is. I looked but didn't see any markings on it. Thanks.
