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I am thinking about purchasing some regs but I'm not sure if I should get a clamp or din
I plan on using the regs in both warm and cold water.
Also any suggestion as to which model to buy?
Thanks in advanced!
I'm a big fan of DIN, having seen a (very) few o-ring blowouts on yokes. Don't know if those were due to valve, o-ring or reg damage or mis-seating by the diver. Don't really care why, just know I've seen 3? over the years. I don't think that's even possible with DIN. I've also seen more dented valve seats on yoke valves on rental tanks.
I happen to dive DIN, but I carry a yoke adapter if I ever need to rent a yoke tank, like in Hawaii.
I had my 10 year old tanks refitted with the combo valves at their last hydro. I carry one insert and a wrench in case I want to loan a tank to a diver with a yoke reg.
Contrary to the popular myth, the sealing surfaces of a DIN and yoke (A) are mechanically exactly the same except the oring groove is on opposite surfaces. The way the seal is held together is different but the actual seal is the same design. The primary reason yokes are seen failing more often is purely a maintenance/ care/use issue and has nothing to do with the DIN or yoke part of the valve. Yoke orings remain on the tank and are very often abused, esp on rental tanks as opposed to the DIN which remains on the reg which is typically replaced every year and sees maybe a 100 dives between replacements as opposed to yoke (esp rental) tanks which usually are used until they are in poor shape.
A lot of DIN vs yoke discussions are filled with half truths and downright BS. Both have positive and negative points, one is not clearly better than the other in all situations.