AI Transmitter mount

[221b]

Why add a quick connect? Just more points of failure.

Not saying unscrewing and screwing will wear out the threads and o-ring but it’s just something I never liked doing. Goes back to my shooting days with suppressors. Given the choice of direct thread or quick detach, QD every time. I know.. apples and oranges.
Edited to add that I don’t leave my transmitter attached to the 1st.

 

[Busy Beav]

I'm curious why you got the idea in your head in the first place that there's a need or benefit to disassembling a vital piece of life support gear after every dive.

It would be like me waking up one day, looking at my gear and comtemplating if i should drain all the air from my tanks and take the valves off.

If you are diver you realize that every time you go down you first connect the first stage of the reg to the tank, and after every dive you disconnect. Simple as that comparison, man.

 

[Busy Beav]

Thanks for the info, fellow divers. I have deiced to keep them on, mounted on the bottom port and leaving the short SPG's on top as backup, with those folded down and elasticized to transmitters. This will keep the units sake from my arms and the top tank strap, in my sidemount diving.

 

[rongoodman]

I leave it connected once on the boat but remove it for flights to and from the site, where it goes in my carry-on with my computers, etc.

 

[Gandalf-the-Diver]

Transmitter should be on a short hose. Leave it attached.

 

[tursiops]

Transmitter should be on a short hose. Leave it attached.

"Should," or is that just your preference?

 

[broncobowsher]

"Should," or is that just your preference?

Depends on how things package out. Mine are actually on a long (for a transmitter anyway) hose simply because they won't fit attached directly to the 1st stage, nor is there room near the 1st stage for a short hose. The good part about a long hose is they are behind my head and much closer tot he NERD. NEVER dropped a signal during a dive.

This is really a matter of what works. If screwing the transmitter directly into the 1st stage works for you, that is what works for you. Sometimes it fits great, sits in a nice protected pocket of space, all is happy. No short hose needed.

 

[Gandalf-the-Diver]

"Should," or is that just your preference?

Should, as a safety precaution in case one's tank falls over, or something falls into your gear. We have all seen it, damage to one's 1st stage due to the fall or impact. A transmitter, screwed directly into the stage 1, is at more risk of damage, than if screwed into a short, shock absorbing, hose.

 

[broncobowsher]

Should, as a safety precaution in case one's tank falls over, or something falls into your gear. We have all seen it, damage to one's 1st stage due to the fall or impact. A transmitter, screwed directly into the stage 1, is at more risk of damage, than if screwed into a short, shock absorbing, hose.

How your gear is packaged, that may be correct. The way someone else has a regulator attached and the angle of the available port, that may not be the case. Don't require blanket fixes for those that don't share your problems.

 

[gamon]

If you are diver you realize that every time you go down you first connect the first stage of the reg to the tank, and after every dive you disconnect. Simple as that comparison, man.

Removing the first stage from the tank is not anywhere near the same thing as removing a transmitter or second stage or spg or anything else that might be attached to the first stage.