Tamas
Contributor
I have been toying with the idea of setting up my own fill station, thus the process began of looking into all sorts of needed gear for it.
My dilemma was with the compressor and banks (or the lack of). Can a smaller compressor be used on it's own to p/p fill tanks? Or does one actually need banks? In short, if I fill my tank with the required O2 for the EAN mix then hook it directly up to a smaller 6cfm compressor and turn it on, would it have sufficient pressure right off the bat to make sure the O2 doesn't bleed back up the line and get wasted? Or is the use of banks for this purpose needed so that one can make sure the pressure is more then the O2 in the tanks?
My dilemma was with the compressor and banks (or the lack of). Can a smaller compressor be used on it's own to p/p fill tanks? Or does one actually need banks? In short, if I fill my tank with the required O2 for the EAN mix then hook it directly up to a smaller 6cfm compressor and turn it on, would it have sufficient pressure right off the bat to make sure the O2 doesn't bleed back up the line and get wasted? Or is the use of banks for this purpose needed so that one can make sure the pressure is more then the O2 in the tanks?