balanced 1st stage, second stage and octo
- Thread starter dfk70
- Start date
Please register or login
Welcome to ScubaBoard, the world's largest scuba diving community. Registration is not required to read the forums, but we encourage you to join. Joining has its benefits and enables you to participate in the discussions.
Benefits of registering include
- Ability to post and comment on topics and discussions.
- A Free photo gallery to share your dive photos with the world.
- You can make this box go away
Short answer is no.
Longer answer is you might want to consider having a similar quality octo as your primary.
Longer answer is you might want to consider having a similar quality octo as your primary.
PfcAJ
Contributor
nope 
no you don't but if you had an overbalance 1 stage and doing deep dive yes.
Not unless you are doing dives much greater then rec limits and the octo is tuned fairly close to the edge...which most octos aren't. The increase over ambient is only about 15 psi at 100 ft, it's been a while but I did the math just to see what the difference was a few years ago, it worked out to be in the 10% range.
Similar threads
