AI transmitters - short hose

[galvanni]

Is a short hose always a good idea for hoseless AI trans mount to the first stage? I can see this being an advantage if someone is careless with your kit and can avoid damage from someone attempting to lift by the trans or falling over (neither of which should ever happen normally) or something falls or bumps it on the first stage. I can see big problems if it's fixed to the first stage as normal, but with a short piece of hose - it will give by moving.

Any downside to doing this? I don't actually have one - but considering it and this kind of came to mind.

 

[scubafanatic]

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[ScubaGypsy]

I have my D9 transmitter attached to a 6" miflex high pressure hose. This hose doesn't become rigid under pressure so it allows me to tuck the transmitter in behind my BC next to the tank so it is out of the way. Previously I found that when the transmitter was directly attached to my first stage that it stood too high and could make contact when in an overhead environment or even when swimming through kelp or seaweed.

 

[RJP]

I can see big problems if it's fixed to the first stage as normal, but with a short piece of hose - it will give by moving.

Don't over think it dude. I have hundreds of dives with a transmitter properly mounted. There are plenty of folks with thousands.

I'd be more worried about an accident befalling a transmitter swinging around on a hose than on one mounted directly to the first stage... where it belongs.

Depending on which reg you have you can configure your rig such that it points down (which I can do with my Aqua Lung Legend) making a problem even less likely.

 

[HowardE]

I use an Oceanic OC1 on a lot of dives... directly attached to a 1st stage. No problems.

I would recommend that you DON'T put it on a hose. I think that's inviting more problems than solving.

 

[Aerosynth]

I have my D9 transmitter attached to a 6" miflex high pressure hose.

Not trying to go off topic here.

Let me say first off that both of my reg hoses are MIFLEX, and I love them. However, I went to a dive shop in Austin, TX, recently, because I had a slow leak in my HP hose and needed to replace it. I inquired about a MIFLEX high-pressure hose since I am such a fan of my reg hoses.

Shop owner pretty much refused to sell it to me... thank goodness. He proceeded to tell me how each of the ones he had sold were coming apart between the metal connection boot and where it attaches to the hose.

Just be careful if you go that route. Don't know if this LDS just got a bad batch of them or if it's a design flaw. Worth looking into, though. Wonder if anyone else has heard of that problem.

 

[ScubaGypsy]

Our experience with the miflex hoses has been positive with both the low pressure hoses and the more recent high pressure hoses. My wife and I have them on both of our singles, doubles and deco bottle regulators which includes 5 high pressure hoses (including the 6" transmitter hose). The high pressure hoses on both the singles and doubles SPGs each have over a hundred dives on them and have shown no wear. This includes all year round diving in New England along some rocky topologies as well as wreck and cave diving. Frankly we had many more problems with the rubber hoses. YMMV.

 

[Aerosynth]

Our experience with the miflex hoses has been positive with both the low pressure hoses and the more recent high pressure hoses.

Frankly we had many more problems with the rubber hoses.

I love the LP MIFLEX hoses. Pretty much cured my jaw fatigue and makes my recreational setup feel a lot less bulky. I would never go back to rubber hoses for LP. Since the PI is LP also, I will also probably soon replace that with the MIFLEX version. And I was totally good to go for the HP MIFLEX replacement, too, until he told me what he did. I almost wouldn't have believed him if he didn't take me to the back room and show me his old personal one... the wear right at that connection point was pretty scary.

Like I said... maybe a bad batch just slipped through QA or something. I do think I'm gonna talk to a few more divers and keep an eye out for similar stories before I make the jump to the HP, though

 

[galvanni]

>> Depending on which reg you have you can configure your rig such that it points down (which I can do with my Aqua Lung Legend) making a problem even less likely.

That works well - I just ordered a legend.

 

[Aerosynth]

@galvanni - Did you ever decide which model computer you're getting?