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Please everyone, be sure you're getting the correct regulator for your blender. The blenders have inlet regulators so that they can be accurately be set up at McDantim. If the inlet regulators are set at 100psi or at 55psi, you can't use a Nitrogen or CO2 regulator that has a 0-60 secondary gauge. The regulators with the 0-60 gauge usually leak from the safety blowoff at around 50psi, and most of them don't have a tight enough spring to even get that high.
If you aren't meeting the minimum inlet pressures, your blend is not accurate.
Yes, the blender will operate with less than the minimum pressures, but it is not accurate.
This mistake is common, and Micromatic needs to look for it when filling orders, especially phone orders or when doing orders to fulfill MM bids. We're all professionals. It's a very simple thing to correct if we bother to address it.
I know of one very experienced MM employee who recently told a local installer that having 40psi N2 inlet pressure on a 100psi-minimum blender is just fine (no, not our local rep, our local rep from about eight years ago wink wink). Shame on you! The CO2 is usually coming from the bulk system at 120ish so it's just fine. Do you really believe that having 100psi of CO2 and 40psi of N2 is going to result in the same blend as having 100 on both sides? The incident in question involves a system at a venue that only uses the taps heavily once per month, and has a real-life operating pressure of around 28. If that blend is over about 70% CO2 it's going to ruin kegs that sit online as partials between events!
I know things like the SS faucet issues are beyond the control of the sales and sales-support staff at MM, but this issue can be cured with a two minute mention at a sales meeting.
If you aren't meeting the minimum inlet pressures, your blend is not accurate.
Yes, the blender will operate with less than the minimum pressures, but it is not accurate.
This mistake is common, and Micromatic needs to look for it when filling orders, especially phone orders or when doing orders to fulfill MM bids. We're all professionals. It's a very simple thing to correct if we bother to address it.
I know of one very experienced MM employee who recently told a local installer that having 40psi N2 inlet pressure on a 100psi-minimum blender is just fine (no, not our local rep, our local rep from about eight years ago wink wink). Shame on you! The CO2 is usually coming from the bulk system at 120ish so it's just fine. Do you really believe that having 100psi of CO2 and 40psi of N2 is going to result in the same blend as having 100 on both sides? The incident in question involves a system at a venue that only uses the taps heavily once per month, and has a real-life operating pressure of around 28. If that blend is over about 70% CO2 it's going to ruin kegs that sit online as partials between events!
I know things like the SS faucet issues are beyond the control of the sales and sales-support staff at MM, but this issue can be cured with a two minute mention at a sales meeting.
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