Al's 2016 Inspection Thread

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally Posted by dradel

My team couldn't pass inspection due to being on low side. When the students questioned this the inspector just walked away and wouldn't listen to reading of rules or reason.
Personally I don't think it matters one way or the other, but in the name of safety it is safer on the low side in my opinion.

What was "on the low side"? You have the right to call in the LRI at your event for a decision and they all have my contact info to ask about a ruling they are unsure of. If your pressure was low, was it at the output of the regulator or was the storage pressure too low? In the case of the working pressure being low, that is within the legal limits. A team can set the pressure to whatever they want as long as it does not exceed 60psi. However, many valves get flaky at lower pressure.
If the "storage pressure" was low, was the compressor turning off? If not, you had a significant leak.