Opinions needed on the OMS Low profile Single Tank Adaptor

[danielization]

Has anyone use this particular OMS Low profile Single Tank Adaptor before? Any opinions? Is it any good or stable?

This STA looks kinda flimsy to me from the photos. I don't know if it can really support the tank after you attach the wing onto the plate.

 

[Dr Wu]

Has anyone use this particular OMS Low profile Single Tank Adaptor before? Any opinions? Is it any good or stable?

This STA looks kinda flimsy to me from the photos. I don't know if it can really support the tank after you attach the wing onto the plate.

I have the steel one and it is pretty unstable.

The tank is not going anywhere but it does wiggle quite a bit.

I imagine (but do not know) that one would be pretty wiggly as well.

 

[danielization]

looks like no one had used this before..

 

[tkdgodess]

i have one but don't use it. It's made pretty solid. i use an iq which i use as a soft pack with a 35 lbs wing for single tank diving.

 

[krob]

I'm gonna buy one ... so my opinion soon

 

[La_Chose]

Hello,

I have been using this soft single tank adaptor every day for one and an half month now. It is solid but not much lighter than a steel adaptor.

It is much more stable than my old steel adaptor. The weight of the tank is no longer supported by only two screws through the adaptor, but instead by the backplate itself as you can see it on the picture below. The cambands are attached to backplate and not to the adaptor. The adapter is squeezed between the tank, the backplate and the cambands. It is really effective. If the cambands are tight enough, nothing moves !

Keep in mind that it is really low profile and the regulator will come closer to your head.

I am very happy with it and I can only recommand it.

 

[Hatul]

I recall Halcyon used to have a system that worked without any adapter for a single tank. How does that compare with this?

 

[La_Chose]

Some wings include a single tank adaptor. Examples are the old Halcyon Pioneer and Eclipse and the Hollis S-Series wings (see pictures below).

To my opinion this system seems less stable than the OMS low profile single tank adaptor because the adaptor of those wings is not sqeezed laterally against the tank by the cambands like the OMS STA does. Moreover the slots of the wing and the ones of the backplate have to be alligned for the cambands to go through.