Water Pressure Regulators

Boomerweps wrote:

Lynnmor wrote:

Boomerweps wrote:
Many of the so-called pressure regulators are really only FLOW restrictors.

I have never seen a "flow restrictor", the cheap barrel shaped pressure regulators often reduce flow and they might fail, but they still are a regulator.

Yes, they slow the flow which limits the pressure going through them. However once you stop the flow of water, the pressure before and after that type (under $10) unit will equalize through the small openings that restrict the flow.

You might want to recheck the source of that incorrect info.

Here's a test of regulators, including both one of the <$7 Camco 40055's and an expensive Watts adjustable one. They all regulate the pressure, although some are better than others. None, including the cheapest, are simple flow regulators.