Why is filling the cricket with air such a pain in the ass ?
I fill all my guns from a tank and all fill fine except the cricket, I crack the fill valve and the guage goes way above 210 bar so I close the valve and the needle falls to 150bar so I crack the valve again and the needle goes way past 210, I close the valve and the needle falls to 155.
This continues until the needle falls and stops at 210 bar.
Is there a way to fix this?
Maybe put a second hole in the brass fill probe ?
Any ideas?
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So the buyer understood what he was seeing on the tank gauge vs. the gun gauge:
Filling
The gun has some sort of a restictor in it. The fill is very slow. Your tank gauge will be showing your tank pressure when filling (because the flow restriction is there). To see what the actual pressure in the gun is close your tank valve and let the gun and hose pressure equalize.
Start of green bar is approx. 1900-2000 psi (130 bar)
Top end of green bar is approx. 4000 psi (275 bar)
Supposedly you can fill to 300 bar
No pictures,
You have to empty all air in the rifle & unscrew the front cap where the fill probe fits.
Do you have a pic of this screw? Is it on the probe or the gun?
Thanks!
You guys need to loosen the screw holding the small o-ring that allows air in the tank but not outside, or sand that same screw on both sides so it can hold the oring but not block air going in the tank.
Mine fills slow as well.
But the strange thing with mine when I turn on the scuba tank, the scuba gauge needle goes to 4,000 PSI ?
everytime
JR
There is only one hole in the probe. For example hw100 probe has two holes and filling is twice time faster. Air cylinder is warmer on hw100 during fill than on cricket.
Yeah, mine fills up slow too. I think it is better this way so the tube doesm’t heat up so much. The slower the better because it equalizes the air pressure. Fill too quickly and the pressure will drop a few once it cools down.
Grease,
I had the same problem. The oring closest to the hose was nicked and leaked. Changed it and the problem was gone. Also, make sure the probe is fully seated. Check the orings on your probe. That may be the problem.
Mine also fills slow. I’m guessing it is because the probe only has one hole compared to the two holes on my Edgun’s probe. Not a big deal to me.
Gabe G.
Interesting post, I did not know this problem exsisted! I have heard guys talk about it being slow to fill, and I am not sure why that is although you should fill all pcp’s slow. Interested to see how many post about you get about this, hopefully there may be a way around this? What does it do if you just fill it really slow? does it still jump up on pressure? and if it does what happens if you just leave it alone until it is done filling?
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It fills slowly but steadily but I kind of like it. Not much chance of an overfill and it doesn’t heat up. It still only takes a few minutes.