"Mystery Reg" Unveiled

[elpimpo]

pug fugly

[dave_p]

looks like a polished turd.

but if its priced reasonable i may get one for my bko

[magmonkey]

function over form....it may be ugly but so is my clasic mag


and for those saying recharge rate doesn't matter, does it matter for the rt pro? has that not been one of our strongest points as to why the mag is a better design than most other markers is the recharge rate?

[-=Squid=-]

I really like the way that looks.

[SIGSays]

my ghetto reg is better.. look at the charts

[68magOwner]

and for those saying recharge rate doesn't matter, does it matter for the rt pro? has that not been one of our strongest points as to why the mag is a better design than most other markers is the recharge rate?

i never said it didnt matter, i am just saying, once you get to a certian point, it dosent matter, if a reg can recharge faster than you can shoot, does it matter if it can recharge 5 times as fast, or 3 times as fast as you can shoot? if i had a reg that was givivng me shootdown problems becasue it recharged slow, then it would be a problem, but, vey few people actualyy have that problem, so, why get a new reg?

[spyder_technician]

I didn't see the ANS GenX reg on that little list of competitors! Doesn't it currently hold the crown for "highest flow"? I demand a recount!

[Steelrat]

maybe I am lost as to why this actually matters? If am not mistaken, butterfingers, has already proven that the problem is not how fast a 2* reg is but how slow the recharge is on your tank reg.

you could have the fastest LPR and Inline ever made, but the bottleneck is what is connected to the tank.

I thought that a tank would continue to flow, just at a lower pressure. Please correct me if Im wrong, but wasnt butterfingers comparing flow vs recharge? From what I remember, my dynaflow, if set to 800 output, would drop to 600 or something (these arent exact numbers) once the gun is fired, then move up to 800 again, albeit a little slowly. But no matter how fast the gun is fired, it never drops below 600 (high flow). So, the reg is going to see a consistent 600 psi minimum during sustained fire. Now, recharge is still an issue, since my reg is only outputting say 200 psi or whatever into my viking, and therefore the minimum 600 psi output from my tank cannot be a limiting factor.

[spyder_technician]

Yes it can drop. Just because there is 600 psi waiting to come out doesn't mean it will. What I'm trying to say is that the pressure will drop below 200 until the reg can allow the valve to open and bring it back to 200 psi. In reality, the pressure always has to drop. A reg isn't designed provide a constant flow, by design it only supposed to repressurize a volume of air until it reaches a set pressure. Therefore there has to be some kind of dropoff to allow the valve to open and air to flow. It is the control of this dropoff and how fast it can recharge the volume of space to that pressure that makes a reg a good one.

[Steelrat]

Im working outside my realm of knowledge, but if you are talking about pressure dropping in the reg, you are right. The trick is getting it to recharge quickly, which the graph clearly shows the 2L does better than any other reg tested. Some of those seem to be complete junk.

[SIGSays]

fine... ignore mine...

[Jack & Coke]

I wonder if the test numbers would look any different if they put the "extender" on it (since it looks like it screws in between the body of the gun and the reg itself)?

Also, what does the graph indicate? What do the x and y axis represent? ...pressure vs time?

[Steelrat]

I don't know if the extender would affect it, as it comes after the reg, and is essentially just a tube. As for the graph, im pretty sure its pressure vs time. The prevailing opinion for a while as that the "mystery" reg was a standalone RT reg, due to the phenomenal recharge, until Tom Kaye said there was no standalone RT reg.

[sneakyhacker420]

im definitely picking one of these up when i get the revenge LE

[DiRTyBuNNy]

it may be the shiz...but it still looks like booty...