you wont see any difference. Air might have a higher moisture content because it isnt refined, but who cares? HPA and compressed nitrogen are both ideal gasses as we use them. they act essentially the same. (actually, they DO act the same for our purposes).
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sniper hit it on the nose. They're both acting as ideal gasses, and for our purposes...thats ENOUGH!Originally posted by sniper1rfa
you wont see any difference. Air might have a higher moisture content because it isnt refined, but who cares? HPA and compressed nitrogen are both ideal gasses as we use them. they act essentially the same. (actually, they DO act the same for our purposes).
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If you are using air from a scuba or dry air then it will be hard to see a difference from nitrogen. But air straight from the atmosphere likes to expand a lot more than nitrogen when heated, mostly because of the moisture that's in it.
I would think this would be very important in an RT valve because it already heats the gas more than other guns. So using clean N2 should yeild the best consistency, even over dry air.I like potatoesComment
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No, the're not ideal gases, we compress them too much to act as such.
There really isn't much difference between the two, for our purposes. All we care about is flow rate, and how much push it can give (He flows REALLY fast, but just spreads out too fast to push a paintball, and is rather expensive for a gas for paintball. There was a discussion on that before I left a year ago, on alternate gases. I think we came to the conclusion that Neon or Argon would be the only real alternate gases appropriate for use for paintball propellant.)
And, as someone said, make sure it's filtered appropriately.
Lohman, air is a mixture of gases that equalize almost instantly. The gases diffuse to equilibrium so quickly that it's pretty homogenous, to the point of insignificance.Own: stock '94 original Spyder, Used Nelspot 007, Phantom stock class
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nah, neon and argon dont work any better, i have tried both. Helium leaks out real fast. just differences in weight. weight has nothing to do with energy available to us. 3000 psi is 3000 psi, it doesnt have anything to do with the gas. Same thing as 300 fps being 300 fps, despite the gun.
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Helium would leak because of the size of molecules. They are too small and leak past the orings. Argon works, but no better than N2 or Compressed air and it's more expensive. I don't know anyone to have tried neon, but it would be about the same as argon, but even more expensive.
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nitrogen just sounds coolerLast edited by 1ofkind; 11-30-2003, 08:06 PM.Team Red Demons, sponsored by Rex Plex, National Paintball Supply, Shooters & looters, & wildwood paintball + more coming soon!
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Very true.Originally posted by 1ofkind
nitrogen just sounds cooler
People think all paintball guns use air. When you tell them you use high pressure air they say they can fill your tank with their shop compressor, and it's a good one cause it's big! lol
Say you use Nitrogen and they give you an amazed look like paintballw as invented by NASA.Comment
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