CO2 not working

[Cristy Keister]

I just changed the tank and re-attached the Milwakee unit yesterday and it was working. Then I adjusted the needle valve, not realizing that the solenoid had shut off with the timer, then just left it shut over night. Today the guage was at 0psi until I opened the tank valve a little more and it went to over 1000psi. But no gas will come out no matter how I adjust any of the valves. Solenoid plugged in, all valves open, guage reads over 1000psi, but no gas coming out. I don't know what's broken.

Help?

[krisw]

What does the right side valve read?

[Cristy Keister]

It was about 95 then. Now this morning it's down to 700 on the left guage and 45 on the right.

[Cristy Keister]

Ok now I'm getting bubbles even though the tank valve is closed. Maybe it wouldn't work because the pressure was too high in the regulator? I just barely opened the valve on the tank. I have no idea how much the regulator's valve needs to be open. I've always just fiddled until I got the right bubble count.

[Bgssamson]

Did you try to take out the solenoid cord and put it back on to reset it? I have this problem occur ones in a while (cheap timer) and it did the trick.

[krisw]

With your regulator, you should open your tank all the way open. The valve on the right, ought to read between 6 and 20psi generally. Then, adjust the bubble count from there. I haven't ever experienced what you're experiencing where no bubbles are coming out.

[ingg]

I have on my manifold setup - I have to open up the needle valvs and then bring them back down once in a while when putting on a new tank.

It is almost like the thing just locks up somehow and needs to be freed up - I've no idea why opening the needles works, but it does (and I even need to one by one open all three, how odd is that?)

[krisw]

Huh, never heard of that Dave. Sounds a lot like what Cristy's experiencing though.