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I just purchased an Edgestar kegerator (my first!) and went with a dual tap tower. The CO2 splitter provided was a T-Split. I’ve already learned a ton from this forum (Thanks!), however I’m stuck on something and want to see if anyone has a solution. I plan on only having one keg tapped most of the time and will fire up a second when I have company. Basically, I’ve found 3 recommended options from reading up here and other places, but want to see if anyone has advice on option #4 below:
Option 1 (most recommended) – upgrade to a dual regulator. I don’t want to do this for a couple reasons – first is money and second is that I expect that the beers I’ll be tapping should work well with same pressure (based on PSI/Temp charts). I may be proven wrong on the second, and if so, may come back to this option, but I’d like to try a more cost-effective approach for now. The other thing with this is the kegerator comes equipped with a hole big enough for only one CO2 line going in, so I think I’d have to drill another hole to make this work (and don’t want to destroy my kegerator before I’ve drawn my first beer from it)
Option 2 – Don’t use the splitter when running only one keg. Perfectly good solution (and no-cost) but a bit of a hassle opening up the unit and spending time (and losing a lot of cold air) swapping in the splitter, redoing clamps, etc every time I want to switch configuration.
Option 3 – upgrade the splitter to one that has two outputs, each with its own shutoff valve. This probably makes the most sense for my situation, but again, trying to save a few bucks with option 4 to accomplish the exact same thing without spending more money
Option 4 – Is there a part that I can simply use to “cap” the other end of the T-splitter when it’s not in use? Or attach a very short run of hose and cap the end of the line. This seems to me the lowest hassle and lowest cost solution but I’ve come up empty in researching this.
Thanks!
-Pete
Option 1 (most recommended) – upgrade to a dual regulator. I don’t want to do this for a couple reasons – first is money and second is that I expect that the beers I’ll be tapping should work well with same pressure (based on PSI/Temp charts). I may be proven wrong on the second, and if so, may come back to this option, but I’d like to try a more cost-effective approach for now. The other thing with this is the kegerator comes equipped with a hole big enough for only one CO2 line going in, so I think I’d have to drill another hole to make this work (and don’t want to destroy my kegerator before I’ve drawn my first beer from it)
Option 2 – Don’t use the splitter when running only one keg. Perfectly good solution (and no-cost) but a bit of a hassle opening up the unit and spending time (and losing a lot of cold air) swapping in the splitter, redoing clamps, etc every time I want to switch configuration.
Option 3 – upgrade the splitter to one that has two outputs, each with its own shutoff valve. This probably makes the most sense for my situation, but again, trying to save a few bucks with option 4 to accomplish the exact same thing without spending more money
Option 4 – Is there a part that I can simply use to “cap” the other end of the T-splitter when it’s not in use? Or attach a very short run of hose and cap the end of the line. This seems to me the lowest hassle and lowest cost solution but I’ve come up empty in researching this.
Thanks!
-Pete
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