My wife had purchased a dual body regulator for me as a present from northern brewer. This was, what I thought, a good regulator. However, since then I have experienced these issues:
The regulator does not pressure up the keg in a timely manner. I see it to serving pressure of 3 - 5 psi and it will take like an hour to pressure the keg up to that 3 - 5 psi pressure. Same is when I am force carbonating I will set it anywhere from 10 - 20psi and again it will take around an hour to pressure to come up. Now when force carbonating I am not too worried since it takes a few days to carb up. However, when I am serving what will happen is that when multiple guests get one beer after another the pressure in the keg will drop below 3 - 5 psi and the regulator will not keep up since it takes AN HOUR TO PRESSURE BACKUP!!! I have to fiddle with turning the regulator up to like 20PSI!!! To get any sort of pressure quickly back into the keg and then it will be too much because I am MANUALY regulating the pressure and then I will get nothing but foam out of the keg. Then I have to let the pressure off, but not too much otherwise I have to repeat this process, to get back to my 3 - 5psi setting until multiple pours and the pressure drops again. This is so frustrating since I have a cheap screw based single body regulator the kicks the crap out of this $150.00 regulator.
Am I doing something wrong or is this just the way this regulator works?