Buying First Reg
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if that wing fails, do you expect it to be serviced when you arrive or do you deal with rentals?
If you looked at my original comment on bringing the spare it was to address what is a laughable "selling point" of regulators like Scubapro and Aqualung for global service while you're travelling when the reality is that is not something that you are going to get serviced while you're travelling, that was the only point. If you are OK with rentals, don't bring one, if you really don't want to use a rental, then bring it. I'll stand by that and have for as long as I've been travelling with dive gear and it appears I'm not the only one who feels that way.
That is often the case but one a Maldives trip a few years ago I had to loan a computer to one person and a regulator to another while out to sea. Even on land some people can find limited availability of some equipment but I have extra stuff so I bring more than one, I may not recommend someone buy two of everything when first starting out but in time we all tend to end up with extras.
I haven't found anywhere I could rent a double hose.... 
When 3 of us travel, I have one complete spare set as a parts donor with us...
It is an exact match to two of the sets (wife's and daughter's), and was actually mine until I started traveling with my DH....
It is an exact match to two of the sets (wife's and daughter's), and was actually mine until I started traveling with my DH....
Man, this thing went sideways quick....
I would ask you first, how much do you want to spend and what features you want/need... If you want to dive cold water, then go for a cold water reg, those typically include many of the higher end features... You will be paying more though. If no cold water then that opens up from the cheap to the expensive. I would definitely focus on the balanced regs and not look at the ultra cheap unbalanced ones...
I would ask you first, how much do you want to spend and what features you want/need... If you want to dive cold water, then go for a cold water reg, those typically include many of the higher end features... You will be paying more though. If no cold water then that opens up from the cheap to the expensive. I would definitely focus on the balanced regs and not look at the ultra cheap unbalanced ones...
Most regulators are pretty good for recreational divers. Take good care of your gear and it will eaisly last 20+ years. Redundancy is always a concern, but in 40+ years of diving, I've only needed a plug for a safe second first stage that was free-flowing and that went to a friend out of my spare kit. I've never carried a spare reg.
I just saw a good offer of the core today. But my long term plans are some tech training up to 50m in the mid term.
@tbone1004 IIRC in another thread I read a while back you said an adjustable 2nd stage is useful if diving deeper than 40m because regs tend to free flow slightly at depth and the adjuster can be useful to dial-in the cracking pressure.
The core supreme does not have an adjuster dial - only a venturi switch ( not sure if it’s binary on/off of can be dialled in). Do you think its worthwhile getting the core supreme for depths up to 50-60m max?
@tbone1004 IIRC in another thread I read a while back you said an adjustable 2nd stage is useful if diving deeper than 40m because regs tend to free flow slightly at depth and the adjuster can be useful to dial-in the cracking pressure.
The core supreme does not have an adjuster dial - only a venturi switch ( not sure if it’s binary on/off of can be dialled in). Do you think its worthwhile getting the core supreme for depths up to 50-60m max?
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