Hpa?

[dbs1054]

OK I am sure it has been beat to death but a search did not give me exactly what I wanted to know.
Friends and I practice at home and are looking at HPA more for convenience than performance. We have SCUBA tanks and I saw a yoke to fill marker bottles from a SCUBA tank which means I can get like 100 fills for 6 bucks. I can get a free tank for co2 and the same 100 fills will be like 20 bucks.

OK now the $1000 question, as a rec player what would you guys do? Is HPA worth the up front cost of the extra tanks, all guns are stock. Pro carbine, 98 custom and spyders are mostly what we use. OH Nitrogen is cheap as well, I can get that for about the same price as HPA, is there any advantage to nitrogen over HPA?

[Coenen]

My god! A question that isn't "will HPA work on my stock Tippmann?" I think you should get a cookie for that.

The question is really if you guys are going to stay in the sport and get serious about it. If you are, I would get the HPA tanks and fill station.

Now, for the second question.
HPA= High Pressure Air. Air about 74% Nitrogen.
HPA = N2, they are the same.

If you hit the stickies in the Air Systems forum there should be plenty of information about filling with SCUBA tanks.

Good luck,

Coenen

[E r y k]

yes it will be worth it. even if you get a small tank, your fills will pay for itself

my fills cost 4.50 per fill unless i go all day for 10 bucks

i am a rec player i guess... i play once a month, i use HPA just because there is always a possibility of getting another gun that requires HPA to run better.

also, using HPA will make your gun more accurate because your velocity wont be spiking everywhere.