Booster pump and Yong Heng Vs GX Filter

[Franklink]

A little history to set a baseline ...

Ive always used a combination of multiple little inline tampon filters for my air removal. With the Yong Heng, the tampons have always been moist after a 15-20 min run. That was even with using the Yong Heng moisture blow outs every three minutes during the fill. With my previous booster (Shoebox) I usually got a drop or two of water out of the sponge in the filter before the tampon, but never any moisture in the tampon itself. With my current booster (Altaros) I added multiple moisture blow outs and silica beads between the shop compressor and the Altaros (so on the low pressure side) that I never had with the Shoebox, and have never gotten even slight moisture in the tampon filter when running the Altaros and pre high pressure moisture removers.

Fast forward to today...
I caved and bought the new GX Filter. Sweet little filter setup. I've been using it a couple weeks now.

I get a massive spray of moisture out the bottom blow out on the GX when running the Yong Heng, even with opening the moisture blow outs on the pump itself every couple minutes.

I have run my Altaros for as long as 90 minutes without opening the GX pumps moisture blow out, and when I did STILL got nothing.

Couple conclusions....
The GX is amazing for getting moisture out of the high side of your fill process, if there's any moisture there to remove.
The booster method of filling, as long argued, removes a very large percentage of moisture from the low pressure side, before it ever makes it to the booster.

 

[AlanMcD]

A little history to set a baseline ...

Ive always used a combination of multiple little inline tampon filters for my air removal. With the Yong Heng, the tampons have always been moist after a 15-20 min run. That was even with using the Yong Heng moisture blow outs every three minutes during the fill. With my previous booster (Shoebox) I usually got a drop or two of water out of the sponge in the filter before the tampon, but never any moisture in the tampon itself. With my current booster (Altaros) I added multiple moisture blow outs and silica beads between the shop compressor and the Altaros (so on the low pressure side) that I never had with the Shoebox, and have never gotten even slight moisture in the tampon filter when running the Altaros and pre high pressure moisture removers.

Fast forward to today...
I caved and bought the new GX Filter. Sweet little filter setup. I've been using it a couple weeks now.

I get a massive spray of moisture out the bottom blow out on the GX when running the Yong Heng, even with opening the moisture blow outs on the pump itself every couple minutes.

I have run my Altaros for as long as 90 minutes without opening the GX pumps moisture blow out, and when I did STILL got nothing.

Couple conclusions....
The GX is amazing for getting moisture out of the high side of your fill process, if there's any moisture there to remove.
The booster method of filling, as long argued, removes a very large percentage of moisture from the low pressure side, before it ever makes it to the booster.

When you ran the Altoros with the GX filter, did you still use the pre-filter set up on it? I so, the water vapor would have already been removed . . . or at least ~98% of it . . .

It sure seems to be a great filter either way!

 

[Franklink]

When you ran the Altoros with the GX filter, did you still use the pre-filter set up on it? I so, the water vapor would have already been removed . . . or at least ~98% of it . . .

It sure seems to be a great filter either way!

When I received it a few weeks ago I unthreaded the top of the GX and took it apart to see what I was getting. Put it back together the same way it came out of the box.

Running it with the Altaros booster was just an experiment to see if it'd pull any moisture out of the post-Altaros air. I didn't alter my typical Altaros setup, so the silica beads and moisture blows-outs for the low pressure side were all in effect. I just added the GX filter as a last stage, between the Altaros and my bottle being filled, like I used to do with the inline tampon filters. GX didn't pull any moisture out of the high pressure air leaving the Altaros so I won't use it with the Altaros anymore, but will certainly be using it with the Yong Heng when I want a fast (read "babysat" ) fill.