Yoke Valve On Pony/stage Bottle

[tbone1004]

had my pony reg for a year and a half now. They're from WMD which is another reg mfg in Taiwan that OEM's for a bunch of brands.

The water ingress is based on how the turrets work, I haven't read up enough on the hows and why's they do what they do, but the turret actually moves outwards when you pressurize it, so I assume it has to do with the play in the o-ring when not under pressure. I.e. if it isn't pressurized, and you move the turret that causes that o-ring to move, there is the potential for water ingress. If you put an OPV and a shutoff on the reg and leave it on, it's obviously a nonissue if you are ok with adding those failure points, some are. I am not.

 

[2airishuman]

I see he has a balanced diaphragm, environmentally sealed, integrated 1st stage/cylinder valve setup that looks remarkably like the WMD FS-814, and also remarkably like part of the H2odyssey product.

W.M.D-1st Stage Regulator

Balanced Diaphragm First Stage - RG3V

H2Odyssey Extra Air Source 3 Regulator System

H2Odyssey Balanced Diaphragm 1st Stage

::shrug::

I'm going to dive the gear I have for now and ponder all this.

 

[tbone1004]

that would be because he is buying those regulators directly from WMD.... The one thing to consider with those integrated regs, that while they are quite nice for certain applications, you do have to carry the fill adapters with you, and if for some reason you don't have it, they can't be filled off of normal whips. They're great for things like argon bottles, pony bottles, O2, etc. but I wouldn't use them for stages