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Posted for "Skip Slater" <skipslater@earthlink.net>:
Richard,
The high pressure hose with the braided stainless over it runs from my
bottle to the bulkhead fitting in the photo. I don't know what kind of hose
it is, it's just the one I got from Mountain High. From there, it runs up to
my panel via high pressure copper tubing to the regulator. Before it gets
there, I have a T fitting which runs a line to a panel mounted pressure gauge
(see photo). I also have pressure gauges on the bottle head (which I can't
see, but it came that way) and at my filler port.
After the pressure is stepped down at the regulator (which is mounted
behind my panel), the O2 runs to the panel mounted ON-OFF valve (also visible
in the attached photo) and from there to the ports. The front seat ports are
in the photo just below my throttle quadrant. That's proven to be a really
good place for them, easily accessible and the hoses don't interfere with
anything.
I don't have a remote valve on my tank, so if I know I'm going high
enough to use O2, I turn the valve on at the tank before I go flying and then
turn it on at the panel if I need it. I turn the bottle valve off when I'm
not flying. So far I've never forgotten to turn the valve on before a flight
when I needed O2, but I have forgotten to turn it off afterwards. My system's
pretty tight, so the leakage over time is minimal.
I think I answered the halon bottle questions in my last post.
Skip Slater
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