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I bought 2 of these and put them on my Bayou Classic SP2 double jet burners. HUGE improvement over the 20 psi regulators that came on them. (I think SP2 burners now come standrad with this regulator).
I used them for the first time this past weekend on a 1000 pound crawfish boil and they were the workhorses, tremendously out-performed the 5 other single jet burners. Please note: when firing these regulators up, be sure to slowly turn on the propane tank valve first, then slowly turn on the regulator. When you turn it off, you must turn off the propane tank valve first, then turn off the regulator. If you don't do it in this order, it will likely activate the safety gas flow devices in the tank and/or the regulator and you will have a small, useless flame.
EDIT 6/11/2013. I have found that if you run these regulators at the full wide open setting, the safety shut off valve will activate randomly, resulting in a puny, worthless flame. When this happens, you have to shut off the tank, then shut off the regulator, then dettach the gas line from the tank. This resets the valve and you are ready to go again. If you don't run the regulator at full wide open, this does not happen. When this first happened, I got a warranty replacement from Bayou Classic, but the replacement regulator/hose also had this issue. So now, in order to avoid the hassel of resetting the valve, I run the gas flow at about 3/4 wide open.
Getting the higher pressure 30 psi regulator and having to limit its gas flow is almost defeating the purpose of upgrading from the 20 psi regulator. If I had it to do over again, I would have probably just kept and used my 20 psi regulators which never gave me any issues.
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This is a pretty well made regulator, but not nearly as good as what you might buy down at a welding shop for 3 times the price. 0n the other hand, it is far better suited for putting on a home grill than the cheap non-adjustable regulators that typically come with the grill or that you buy as replacements.I have a 15 year old stainless grill with ceramic parts that last forever, but the the three cast iron burners keep burning/rusting out. Even with brand new burners in it, it would barely heat up the grill, and if you turned on more than one burner, the flames got even lower. Even with new burners, it was pretty much a useless device on the back porch, due to the low flame.
I did all the "reset the safety valve" procedures, but nothing helped. I determined that the regulator was not delivering enough gas, but I did not know what the proper pressure for that particular 3 burner setup was, so I decided to get an adjustable regulator with more than just 10lbs of pressure. 2 days later (yes, speedy delivery from Amazon Prime), I got the new regulator. It was exactly as described except that it requires a 3/4in wrench for the fitting.
Once hooked up, it was an amazing difference. Better than new, the regulator allows you to much greater flame adjustment than the regular valves. The regulation is very smooth and predictable; considerably better than some air pressure regulators I have purchased. If you want a really hot flame for grilling steaks fast, just dial in a bit more pressure and you have all the heat you could wish for. Tiny flame to just keep it warm? Turn it back down. The variation in the flame size is much greater now than when the grill was brand new. One or three burners makes no difference now, the regulator seems to give consistent pressure at different flow rates.
Please keep in mind that if you have no sense whatsoever, it is quite possible to turn the pressure up higher than your burners can mix with air, so the flames will go big and wild inside your grill if you adjust it too high. The flip side of that problem is that your regulator can also be turned down too low to allow it to even light. An untrained/inexperienced grill operator might have big problems if they don't know what the adjustment handle does. Sloppy handling when hooking up a new tank can easily change the pressure setting, too. A lock-down feature of some sort might be a good addition to improve safety; these are present on almost all gas regulators for welding & industrial applications.
My hope is that the regulator will allow me to dial in slightly higher pressures 10 years from now when the diaphragm & spring inside begin to weaken. Not enough gas? Turn up the pressure!
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