chalmers wrote:GDoucet wrote:Here'a a really stupid question but the secondary regulators are essentially hooked up in line with the primary regualtor so you can serve at different pressures right? These can be connected with gas lines and don't necessarily need manifolds or any other hardware?
Not stupid, I didn't know before getting into kegging!
The answer is yes, it allows for serving at different pressure, and can be hooked up via gas line (via hose barbs) or a nipple to attach it directly to the primary.
What he said. Except you can't attach a secondary reg inline with the primary via threaded nipple (shouldn't rather), it'll blow it out. Secondary regs can't handle the straight-through 800 PSI tank pressure, thus the reason they're called secondary.
So, run a CO2 line from your primary reg to the secondary regs. Typically you'll run the primary at greater PSI than you set the secondary. If you force carb or do anything else that requires higher flow rates you'll want to run the primary at 30 - 40 PSI to meet the flow rate demand. You can connect the secondary regs in a series via threaded nipples or use hose barbs and tubing. You can run as many as you want in the series, 3, 10, 100.... 100 beers on tap, all at individual pressures.... mmm beer
In the photo above, there's two sets of four secondary regs already hard-piped together in a series, with shut-offs and hose-barb ready for feed from a primary. $50 each
