Aqualung Aquasense announced (aquanounced?)

[BoundForElsewhere]

i don't like the idea of being tied into one system for anything but that does look sexy. now, when are they coming out with hoseless regulators?

 

[Nemrod]

You know, I am just going to do a solid pass on this. The LEDs that color code your breathing rate, oh dear God! I need the air I need, God designed us to automatically know when we need to breath, I do not need AI to tell me that. One of my often dive buddies says he looks at his SAC rate on his computer and adjusts his breathing to conserve air, yeah, okay, whatever. All I need is for my regulator to give me the air I need, when I need it. No batteries included please.

I figured it only a matter of time before somebody integrated an air integration transmitter into the first stage and from a marketing perspective capturing your customers into your proprietary system sounds like money. If it were an open system, however, it could fly. But please, drop the flashing LEDs and there is no reason to have a communication cable to the mouthpiece making the LP hose into something that looks like a hardhat diver umbilical. Geez, geez, geez. How would I even see what the LED on my second stage is indicating? Whatever it is that it indicates, dear God!

Personally, even if I were of the current generation and not an older fellow, I see no point in this forced technology and I am not going to buy a regulator with batteries in it and time sensitive technology. But it would be okay if somebody minaturized the current transmitters that are oft mistaken for a handle or valve knob.

Dear AL, this is as bad as your half baked, left over parts, remake of the double hose Mistral a few years back.

Back on subject, I would see this regulator being sold as the heart of a streamlined travel diver kit. No separate AI tx to worry over and using a BCI combo inflator/regulator there would only be two hoses. Okay, okay, drop the stupid LEDs and that gargantuan hose and I can see some people wanting it (not me).

 

[Badger7]

You know, I am just going to do a solid pass on this. The LEDs that color code your breathing rate, oh dear God! I need the air I need, God designed us to automatically know when we need to breath, I do not need AI to tell me that. One of my often dive buddies says he looks at his SAC rate on his computer and adjusts his breathing to conserve air, yeah, okay, whatever. All I need is for my regulator to give me the air I need, when I need it. No batteries included please.

I figured it only a matter of time before somebody integrated an air integration transmitter into the first stage and from a marketing perspective capturing your customers into your proprietary system sounds like money. If it were an open system, however, it could fly. But please, drop the flashing LEDs and there is no reason to have a communication cable to the mouthpiece making the LP hose into something that looks like a hardhat diver umbilical. Geez, geez, geez. How would I even see what the LED on my second stage is indicating? Whatever it is that it indicates, dear God!

Personally, even if I were of the current generation and not an older fellow, I see no point in this forced technology and I am not going to buy a regulator with batteries in it and time sensitive technology. But it would be okay if somebody minaturized the current transmitters that are oft mistaken for a handle or valve knob.

Dear AL, this is as bad as your half baked, left over parts, remake of the double hose Mistral a few years back.

Back on subject, I would see this regulator being sold as the heart of a streamlined travel diver kit. No separate AI tx to worry over and using a BCI combo inflator/regulator there would only be two hoses. Okay, okay, drop the stupid LEDs and that gargantuan hose and I can see some people wanting it (not me).

100% agree, especially on the one good concept to take from this might be a smaller AI transmitter with an indicator light with pressure status. I don't need it, the people I normally dive with wouldn't use it, but I've had others ignore their turn pressure on rec dives and I've had to put someone on my long hose to make sure everyone is back to the ascent line with ample gas.

NGL, it might be kind of cool if someone's reg indicator turned from green to yellow at 1800psi or some other defined preset. That would avoid the issue of everyone needing to use the same brand (garmin, aquanonsense, etc) to be able to quickly visually verify your dive buddies still have more than x% back gas.

 

[Divin'Papaw]

nm

 

[jellycatsdad]

Ewww, no.

 

[lowwall]

Imagine that in a long hose configuration

 

[Badger7]

Imagine that in a long hose configuration

Especially if that elephant trunk of a regulator hose gets stiff in 38 degree water....

 

[johndiver999]

Especially if that elephant trunk of a regulator hose gets stiff in 38 degree water....

Exactly, that super fat hose would make a tremendous amount of drag. They make the second stage tiny, so it is streamlined? LOL

 

[iain/hsm]

it might be kind of cool if someone's reg indicator turned from green to yellow at 1800psi or some other defined preset.

Finally Smither's code for us numpty's






(And just to be clear for our American dependents reading this
That's "us" as in all of us and not US as in USA)

 

[iain/hsm]

Not sure exactly what the 4 colors of LED (red, yellow, green, blue) on the top of the 1st stage and right side of the 2nd stage mean.

Er not sure you should have asked that. But to answer your question

They were originally aiming at a wider more diverse kind of market than just a divers market and in order to recreate Noah's Great Rainbow if you catch my drift.