poomero
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Start your own fill stations and charge however you want to. problem solved.
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Start your own fill stations and charge however you want to. problem solved.
As it turns out, there is value in your old man wisdom... I received an angry call from the owner on Wednesday and am now banned. Complain about a hot fill a few times, and he forgets about $10k in previous business and hundreds of hours of labor I donated to the shop and dive boat. Then again, he's also been pissed at me since I dove with another diver he hates back in February.Well, you keep complaining while obviously nothing was being done, you could have picked up on the owners attitude. I have found out that nothing good has come from continually complaining to someone who doesn't want to hear.
If you spent 10k on fills you should do your own mixing. Then you can complain to yourself about light fills. Also another reason for lp 100s.
As it turns out, there is value in your old man wisdom... I received an angry call from the owner on Wednesday and am now banned. Complain about a hot fill a few times, and he forgets about $10k in previous business and hundreds of hours of labor I donated to the shop and dive boat. Then again, he's also been pissed at me since I dove with another diver he hates back in February.
Oh well. Guess it fixes the problem, eh?
That's completely understandable where you're coming from OP. I'd be aggravated as well. One thing to keep in mind though, is that 9/10 when a FSO is filling a tank, the tank will heat up and it will read at say 3400psi, then when it cools down it will be back to 3100. Whenever I'm filling tanks at the shop, I'll do an initial fill then wait a couple hours and check it again just to be on the safe side.
Yup, quite familiar with adiabatic heating. Problem was this FSO was lazy and wouldn't go back and top up, but would still charge you as if it were 3400psi, insist that it was at 3400psi, and would refuse to provide you with a gauge so you could check yourself. If you used your own gauge, it was always "inaccurate" and you'd be charged for the CF of a 3400PSI fill anyway.That's completely understandable where you're coming from OP. I'd be aggravated as well. One thing to keep in mind though, is that 9/10 when a FSO is filling a tank, the tank will heat up and it will read at say 3400psi, then when it cools down it will be back to 3100. Whenever I'm filling tanks at the shop, I'll do an initial fill then wait a couple hours and check it again just to be on the safe side.
Or at least just charge me for the CF of a 3100 PSI fill. That's all we wanted.Rather than going through that wait and reconnection, why not just check the surface temperature of the hot tank and fill accordingly? The fill limit is 3442 at 70 F. Nothing wrong with going to a bit higher pressure at 110 F so it cools to 3442 +/-.