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Originally Posted by carcrazycorey
whats the expansion chamber or regulator needed for? What will happen if I don't get onE?
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CO2 is compressed in a liquid-ish state and is volatile. This means that lots of things affect it's behavior and performance. CO2 will exhibit shootdown and spikes in pressure sometimes due to these conditions.
-angle of tank
-temperature
-rate of fire
-lots of things
an expansion chamber usually replaces your front grip with a louvered chamber (that you still use as a front grip) so that the CO2 has more room and time to expand into a complete gas state. This allows for the CO2 to act more like a less volatile propellant... such as high pressure air, which doesn't have this problem.
A regulator/stabilizer is an active valve that holds a certain operating pressure. I'm not the best for explaining this as some of the more technical fol,k around here can you give you the word for word explanation.
I gotta go to work. I hope this helped.
