This is how long the 5 off 2Kg FE's on a 180litre tank have lasted me. Spot the times when I had a leak !!!
No.1. bubble rate was possibly too low.
- 255 days
- 137 days
- 60 days
- 23 days
- 98 days
No.2. Better
No.3. Bubble counter plastic "crazed" and cracked.
No.4. Leak from disintegrated locking nuts on JBL bubble counter.
No.5. Leak from one way valve.
I weigh mine (cheap £9 set of digital scale from Argos) and start at 5.8Kg when full (+regulator attached) obviously dropping to 3.8KG when empty.
Water and fair liquid where CO2 pipe leaves regulator and enters diffuser and having pipes long enough to be able to dunk bubble counter and one way valve in a jug of water.might sound funny, but how did you find the leaky section?
My 3.5kg cylinder has lasted me a year and a half and is still going strong on a 125lt at around 4bps for 10hrs a day ! To think I almost gave it for refilling last Christmas cos my cylinder guy was going to be closed for a week and the cylinder felt quite light and almost empty ! That would have been 10 months of gas down the drain !!.
But to even it out my old 2kg FE and reg were so crappy they barely lasted 2 weeks to a month and a half tops on my 60 lt and later on the 125lt too. This was after sealing all the leaks I could find too.
So yeah Karma... things even out and all that