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Knowing the pressures of your gun are not very important unless you a cocker nut like me and adjust them all the time and can tell what is wrong with your gun better using them. There are usually four different pressures in your gun. Your tank pressure, your line pressure, your gun pressure, and your cocking pressure.

Tank Pressure

If you are using nitro hopefully there is a guage on it if not then you have a big problem when trying to fill it. This Guage obviousy tells you the pressure in your tank. Most tanks can either be filled to 3000psi or 4500psi as the tank is used the pressure drops steadily when it gets too low then your velocity will mostlike ly statr to drop and you need to refil the tank. CO2 does not use pressure to measure the amount left. In this case the tank and line pressure are the same and with co2 pressure changes with temperature. This is why i reccomend using a regulator with and gun using CO2.

Line pressure

It is pointless to gauge line pressure. It can be done and is nice to know incase you think you are having a problem with your input pressure. To guage this there is sometimes a spot on the dropforward or duck bill. Or some regs have spots for gauges but this tells the line pressure not the gun pressure unless the hole is above the reguator.

Gun pressure

Tis is the pressure that the gun runs at and is one i like to know when i am tweaking mr cocker with new parts and adjusting the reg. It makes sweet spotting and going low pressure and visa versa very easy for you guys that like to do that sorta thing. You can put a micro gauge in the hole under the front block. I didnt like how it looked so i drilled my asa, tapped it and put a full size gauge in there. To each his own. To have your reg on the side without drilling into it. Put a 90* hose adapter in the hole under your front block and then attach a gauge to that. Some regulators have a hole above the reg and tell you the pressure the gun runs at. These are nice but i find them not so ergonomic when playing a game.

Cocking pressure

This pressure is the pressure after your lpr. You cannot gauge this but it is important to sweet spot it in order to reduce choping paint and lower the amount of air wasted by the cocking process. All this pressure is used for is moving the back block back and forward so it can be set vey low with the right pnumatics and bolt. Also having your lpr sweet spotted will allow for less cocking pressure to be needed.

In conclusion

Unless you are always playing with the settings of your gun dont get a gauge you are just more weight. Most people just get them for looks and dont even know what they are for. Keep it simple try not to put on too many gauges it doesnt make you look any smarter expecially when they read the same thing.


	Cokers Cockers \| home Gauges Knowing the pressures of your gun are not very important unless you a cocker nut like me and adjust them all the time and can tell what is wrong with your gun better using them. There are usually four different pressures in your gun. Your tank pressure, your line pressure, your gun pressure, and your cocking pressure. Tank Pressure If you are using nitro hopefully there is a guage on it if not then you have a big problem when trying to fill it. This Guage obviousy tells you the pressure in your tank. Most tanks can either be filled to 3000psi or 4500psi as the tank is used the pressure drops steadily when it gets too low then your velocity will mostlike ly statr to drop and you need to refil the tank. CO2 does not use pressure to measure the amount left. In this case the tank and line pressure are the same and with co2 pressure changes with temperature. This is why i reccomend using a regulator with and gun using CO2. Line pressure It is pointless to gauge line pressure. It can be done and is nice to know incase you think you are having a problem with your input pressure. To guage this there is sometimes a spot on the dropforward or duck bill. Or some regs have spots for gauges but this tells the line pressure not the gun pressure unless the hole is above the reguator. Gun pressure Tis is the pressure that the gun runs at and is one i like to know when i am tweaking mr cocker with new parts and adjusting the reg. It makes sweet spotting and going low pressure and visa versa very easy for you guys that like to do that sorta thing. You can put a micro gauge in the hole under the front block. I didnt like how it looked so i drilled my asa, tapped it and put a full size gauge in there. To each his own. To have your reg on the side without drilling into it. Put a 90* hose adapter in the hole under your front block and then attach a gauge to that. Some regulators have a hole above the reg and tell you the pressure the gun runs at. These are nice but i find them not so ergonomic when playing a game. Cocking pressure This pressure is the pressure after your lpr. You cannot gauge this but it is important to sweet spot it in order to reduce choping paint and lower the amount of air wasted by the cocking process. All this pressure is used for is moving the back block back and forward so it can be set vey low with the right pnumatics and bolt. Also having your lpr sweet spotted will allow for less cocking pressure to be needed. In conclusion Unless you are always playing with the settings of your gun dont get a gauge you are just more weight. Most people just get them for looks and dont even know what they are for. Keep it simple try not to put on too many gauges it doesnt make you look any smarter expecially when they read the same thing.