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Afternoon all, a wee experiment for you all to try
you'll need the tools shown in the picture above
connect your manometer to the meter and set gauge to 10mb as if doing a let by test,
now create a small gas leak, I've used the bellows with it's valve slightly open to do this,
now you want to create a small let by on the ecv to compensate for the gas leak.
What you want is your gauge to stay at 10mb,
so now you've got 2 faults, ie a let by + a gas leak and the manometer reads as if all is well
now you want to use the bellows to increase the gauge pressure to 20mb
[ dont touch the ecv or the bellows valve at this point, as you dont want to alter the let by or the gas leak you've created ]
now do a tightness test 20mb for 2mins
I did the tightness test a few times and I was getting a drop of between 2 - 4 mb
what's the point of all this nonsense,
well the powers that be, say it's alright to leave a 4mb drop [u6 meter] on an existing gas supply with appliances & no smell of gas etc.
if you do this in the experiment i've created, you'd be walking away and leaving a let by as well as a gas leak
so what can we learn from all of this, well, if you get an 'allowable' permissable drop, dont walk away from it, until you've checked for some sort of drop at 10mb as well,
if there's no drop at 10mb, it's likely that the ecv is letting by.