Which guage do you rely on to fill your edgun?
I pump up my gun to 200 bar according to the Edgun guage. My pump, which is an fx model, reads at about 220bar. I leaning towards relying on the onboard guage since it’s directly connected to the gun. Any thoughts?
thanks,
Gabe G.
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Thanks guys!! I really want to shoot all day but work and stuff gets in the way..
I shot my gun before I pump it back up. The gun guage read 150 bar. The shot read 905fps on the chrony. At 200bar, a shot read at 908fps. Looks like everything is shooting good. I don’t like to shoot thru a all the time. When I get a new gun, I’ll run a few shots thru the chrony to see if everything is fine and then put the chrony away. If I notice a drop off in performance, I’ll chrony the gun.
The edgun is probably the most solid gun I have owned. It’s built like a tank. The only other gun that I can favorably compare it to build wise, is my old JW70 which A. Smith now owns. I don’t foresee any issues with it, knock on wood 😉
Thanks for your input HOOT man,
Gabe
Holy shit!!!
A rifle that shoots tacks AND brinks?!?!?!?!
I NEED it!!! I can post stuff to my cork board and build a brick shit house at the same time!! 😆
Dude, I doubt if there are any gauge brands in the world that would exactly agree with most other gauges. Barring some ability to calibrate them against a known pressure, we are doomed to trust whoever made them.
I’ve never owned a fill gauge that agreed with a pcp on-board gauge.
If you are really serious about being on the spot, you’d have to buy a glycerin filled, top quality gauge, in the $75-$100 USD range.
But…why?
Personally, I’d buy a good chrono (Prochrono) and track my results on the gauge I fill with. It makes no difference how accurate the gauge is, as long as it reads consistently. That way, we know where our shot string begins to home in on accuracy, and where it begins to drop off.
Conclusion….Get a Prochrono, or other good chrony, and learn to “read” the gauge you use, to identify what fill psi begins the best accuracy in your pcp, then never fill beyond that reading.
After you identify at what psi the accuracy drops off, then you know when to refill.
Personally, I use magazines to determine my shot count. I know my AA will give 30 high power accurate shots. So, I have three ten shot magazines. I fill to 2700 psi (or so the gauge says) because I know that’s where I begin to drive tacks. I also know after 30 shots I just as well start tossing bricks, so that’s when I fill.
Just my rule of thumb. There are intelligent individuals on this forum you’d be better off listening to.
Regards,
Kindly ‘Ol Uncle H 😯 😯 T
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There is always difference between the gauge on the gun and on the pump due to the design of the input valve. You should fill up the gun according to the gun’s gauge.