Can you identify this regulator?

[JEScholz]

I picked this regulator up for next to nothing. I know it is a Poseidon and think it is a cyclone but would like to identify it further and try to pick up a service manual for it.

The first stage looks like a diaphragm with a HP, R, U and LP ports, but I don't know the model / series.

To describe it, it has a main body of a "T" with the purge valve on the end at a 90". The mechanism is an articulating type with the "joint" in the center of the mouthpiece.

I am also looking for a LDS who YOU would trust to service YOUR Poseidon.

Any help will be appreciated.

 

[Tamas]

sorry, don't see the pic

 

[rcontrera]

Poseidon Cyklon (sp?)

Send it to Ol John at Scuba Delray in Delray Beach, FL. It takes a while to get stuff done because of his huge backlog, but he is the best!!

 

[Gilldiver]

Could be an old Thor, the name before Cyclon. AKA the "Hocky Puck."

Send it to TDL, Scotty can do it fine. But make sure they have parts for the , most likely, older style 1st stage.

 

[mania]

Poseidon - no question about it
Mania
PS. Here we call them showers heads - they look a bit like don't they?

 

[rcontrera]

Yeah ... they have been called a hockey puck as well. The marks on the first stage stands for HP-high pressure, R-regulator, LP-low pressure, U-Unisuit ... the poseidon drysuit.


And Gilldiver is right. That design started out as the Cyklon300 in metal and then was introduced as the Thor in plastic. Now they call the plastic one the Cyklon 5000. It most likely has the balanced first stage but even if it has the old unbalanced one, Ol John in Delray has parts. In fact, he has more parts on hand than the current distributor of Poseidon.

 

[JEScholz]

Thanks everyone, any idea on identifying the age of the first stage? Serial # is 48478and there is "1225" on the yoke opposite the Poseidon logo.

 

[rcontrera]

The 1225 is just the part number for the yoke which dates this model as pre 1985 when the yokes were changed.

 

[Gilldiver]

Poseidon - no question about it
Mania
PS. Here we call them showers head - they look a bit like don't they?

We always call the Oden (whatever it is called now - God I'm getting old it seems) the shower head and the Thor the Hocky Puck.

Back in the bad old days of independent doubles you saw a lot of divers with one Oden and one Thor, that way you knew what tank you were berathing off. Some would also use the Thor on their pony, for the same reason - to many divers jumped in on the pony by mistake, so we had diffrent 2nd stage regs to tell the main from the pony.

 

[Bob Vincent]

If metal its a 300. If plastic its a 5000. I don't believe a 300 came painted yellow, so if its metal it's probally been painted. Thats why from the picture I'll bet its a 5000. They do have a 6000 its metal and by the purge it has different holes cut around the exhaust. But a 5000 Oct does come in yellow.