We now have two guns with dual regs. So the question is, do we still have a plateau, knee and downslope? Are they harder to detect because the second reg is seeing a much lower constant pressure? Or is it the same old same old as having one reg?
2 so so regs are no better than 1 great one and IMO 2 great regs are no better than a single great one. Tho ... 2 so so or better regs are better than a single lousy one.
It is a crutch and salesmanship for the most part. Built a single reg system with a Great regulator and you have a winning system with 1/2 the complexity.
JMO tho ...
Creating a fix for a problem that wouldn't exist with a decent regulator.
2 so so regs are no better than 1 great one and IMO 2 great regs are no better than a single great one. Tho ... 2 so so or better regs are better than a single lousy one.
It is a crutch and salesmanship for the most part. Built a single reg system with a Great regulator and you have a winning system with 1/2 the complexity.
JMO tho ...
Totally agree. Good post.
My experience with my M3 has me liking the dual reg system.
My impact sat unfired for 2 weeks. Picked it up this morning and took a dove at 90 yards, just one shot. The entire 2 weeks the 2nd reg has remained at 100bar.
However the first reg , which is seeing bottle pressure did creep from 130 to 150 bar. The 1st reg didn't care , so to me is working.
I'm usually not one to defend FX, but hey, so far it's working.
I will add a little. We don’t quite know how bad our Taipans creep because we don’t have a reg gauge. We would have to measure our first shots quite a few times over different times of the gun not being used and different fill pressures. But most guys shoot pellets and it just doesn’t matter that much. Now let’s talk slugs. My Taipan is a slugger. It’s always a spot on gun across my whole usable air pressure range. But because the gun is not sensitive to being tuned for slugs on an accuracy node like another brand is, this changes things. And FX knows it. Pellets don’t count. They shoot great out of guns even with funky tunes. Do you see where I’m going? Guys that haven’t experienced just how small these nodes are when tuning might have a harder time trying to grasp what it’s like keeping your gun on one while using your available air per fill. I shoot pellets out of one of my FX guns and I couldn’t give a crap about finding and maintaining an accuracy node. Absolutely not necessary even for 100yrd shooting. Slugs? Different story.