Rich Keller
Contributor
Someone told me about a way to test how well a BCD holds pressure that I never heard of before. He uses a reg with two BCD hoses, one attached to the BCD and the other with an intermediate pressure gage attached. He fills the BCD then drains the air from the reg, then he opens the inlet to the BCD allowing the pressure from the BCD back into the reg and reads the IP gage. Once he has that reading he repeats but waits a half hour before allowing the pressure from the BCD back into the reg for a second reading. The first problem that came to mind was there is no way to gage how much pressure was in the BCD to begin each test. Has anyone ever tried this?