I once asked, during a Poseidon tech course, whether there was a bit of latitude when it came to IP settings. The answer, from the instructor, looking over bifocals at me, had been a terse "absolutely not" at the time and "pay attention to the manual" -- even though settings had changed a bit over the years, toward a lower IP.
A friend just bought a bunch of gear for his wife, including an Xstream, and wanted me to assemble everything and check it out, right out of the box, still with the shiny, relatively new "calibrated" sticker that Poseidon had been plastering on its first stages.
The setting for that regulator and most of the other models, is 8.5 bar (about 123 psi); and the new "calibrated" regulator initially registered 9.6 bar (about 139 psi) before cycling it a few times, until it finally settled at 9.35 bar (a bit higher than the photo) -- not a big issue really, but sort of amusing considering how stringent their instruction and manuals were -- and that I would likely have been given a failing grade, had I done that, at least at the shop where I had worked as a kid.
Off to the Allen wrenches . . .
A friend just bought a bunch of gear for his wife, including an Xstream, and wanted me to assemble everything and check it out, right out of the box, still with the shiny, relatively new "calibrated" sticker that Poseidon had been plastering on its first stages.
The setting for that regulator and most of the other models, is 8.5 bar (about 123 psi); and the new "calibrated" regulator initially registered 9.6 bar (about 139 psi) before cycling it a few times, until it finally settled at 9.35 bar (a bit higher than the photo) -- not a big issue really, but sort of amusing considering how stringent their instruction and manuals were -- and that I would likely have been given a failing grade, had I done that, at least at the shop where I had worked as a kid.
Off to the Allen wrenches . . .