<div dir="ltr">Hi Rick,<div><br></div><div>Your understanding is correct, but I'm curious about the flow meter. The ones I use are designed to work with medical O2 tanks (although I don't have those tanks in the sub.) Like you, I drop the pressure to 150 over ambient outside the hull. It is a safety measure, to avoid bringing HP oxygen inside. If I were using the flow meters as designed, directly on a tank, they would see variable pressure as the tank empties, so as long as my outside regulator is supplying O2 at a pressure that is within the range of a medical tank, they are happy. What I use are pediatric flow regulators, with a dial to adjust liters per minute. Pediatric ones are good because they have lower scale flow rates, which are well suited for the ranges we need in a sub. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Alec</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 11:15 PM Rick Patton via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Having a brain fart,,,,,, I am knocking down my HP - 02 on the outside of the sub with an 02 cleaned 1st stage reg which I understand will bring it into the sub at around 150 psi + - on the surface. As I understand it, this 1st stage will always give me around 150 psi over ambient? so is it safe to assume that at the max operating depth of my K-350, will it be trying to push in around 320 psi absolute?<div> <div>everything tells me that it will but the part that I am having a hard time with is that the 150 psi over bottom is pushing it into a 14.7 psi scenario so does that change things up? My flow meter is calibrated for a 50 psi inlet psi. I also have run new rubber 02 hose that I seperated from an acetylene hose for a burning torch and will have to see if that hose is rated for that pressure.</div><div><br></div><div> I chose to go that way as I am not a good tube bender. Another scenario I was thinking of doing if the 1st stage keeps pushing more and more is to attach a shop 02 regulator just inside the sub that has both the HP and LP gauges on it and dial down the LP side to put out no more than 50 psi? </div></div><div><br></div><div>Rick</div></div>
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