Little help with Nat gas regulator?

[SouthTX1911]

Could I get some help with placing my regulator on my line? I cant get our inspections done until we get this stuff hooked up. The gas comes into our building and the connection is on the wall. I had to get a replacement hose with a quick connect on the end that connects to the wall. There is a valve before the connection ON the wall. And a valve on my line before the pot

Here is how it looks right now


I realized I didn't put a regulator on my line. Where would it need to go between the wall and my boiler??

Here are more pics of th setup


Wall connection


Pot connection


Regulator


Thanks so much for any help. I greatly appreciate it.

[Killer]

could you not just get a threaded nipple and some couplings and put it inline behind the cut off on the cooker? From the pics it looked like the reg. size maybe the same as the feed line into the cooker? You would need to confirm this. That is how I would do it from looking at the pics.

[SouthTX1911]

could you not just get a threaded nipple and some couplings and put it inline behind the cut off on the cooker? From the pics it looked like the reg. size maybe the same as the feed line into the cooker? You would need to confirm this. That is how I would do it from looking at the pics.

That's my plan so far; mI'm just trying to make sure I'm allowed to do that. Didn't know if it's against code or what. I don't know anything lol

[Kevin Smith]

Is the nipple threaded into the cooker? If so take it loose and use a shorter nipple and put the regulator under the cooker. Just make sure the arrow on the regulator is pointed to the cooker.

[TXhunter77]

Since you have a valve at the wall you don't need one at the boiler. Put the regulator where the valve is located on the boiler.

Make sure that the arrow on the regulator goes with the flow of gas.

PM me with your number if you have any questions

[60 Deluxe]

Natural gas should be regulated at the meter by the gas company. Another regulator is safer but redundant.

[Kevin Smith]

Natural gas should be regulated at the meter by the gas company. Another regulator is safer but redundant.

wrong, the appliance comes with a regulator.

[TXhunter77]

Natural gas should be regulated at the meter by the gas company. Another regulator is safer but redundant.

The regulator at the meter is based on total demand of the building. Some equipment calls for different pressure of gas to operate correctly...

Example the building might need to be provided 2psi of gas to operate all the gas equipment but an individual piece of equipment might only need 2oz. So you will need a regulator to regulate the pressure.

[60 Deluxe]

Not wanting to argue as my experience has been with very large industrial burners such as boilers and drum driers which had regulators because gas pressure had to be fine tuned to control cost, soot, NOX, etc. my experience with small burners is that they work well at line pressure with just a needle valve for control. There is nothing at all wrong with having a regulator for every appliance or burner. It is the safest way to go. I just can't see a turkey fryer being used all that much but hey, regulators are pretty cheap in that size.

[oktx]

May want to keep the valve at the wall just in case of fire.

[BBBGP]

It goes closes to the boiler. It will have arrows to show you the direction it needs to be pointing. Once it's set up you can use it to adjust the mix of gas/ air that create the flame. You'll need a flat head screw driver for that. I would get it set up, adjust the flame mix to your liking and put the cap back on.


Business I'm assuming?

[SouthTX1911]

Thanks for all the input. Went ahead and put it down at the lower valve.

Gonna be a crawfish restaurant. We should be opening by next weekend. We will be having a big boiler built this year and convert these pots to propane for portable use next year.