Double Tanks: What's your choice

[in_cavediver]

Like most others:

Drysuit: twin PST 104's. (wife has LP 85's which are a lot lighter)

Wetsuit: twin AL80's

In both cases, dive a halcyon SS plate with 55lb explorer wing.

 

[daniel f aleman]

DSS rigs: one for single tank, and another for doubles
Luxfer twin sets: AL80 and Twin AL100
Worthington twin sets: X7-100, X8-119, X8-130
Highland Bands and hardware
OMS twin manifolds
OMS valves on independents
OxyCheq Expedition X O2 Analyzer
YvesAir continuous Trimix blender compressor with oxygen and helium feeds

 

[H2Andy]

twin worthington LP 85's, Dive Rite valves and manifold

why? they do'nt totally kill my back (i have a busted L1 vertebrae)

i do think (maybe it's wishful thinking) that i am getting better. if i
can confirm that in about a year or so, it's gonna be an upgrade for
me... probably 104's or equivalent

 

[scubafool]

I call dibs on your 85's.

 

[Don Burke]

Dry, I love my 72s.

Wet, I tolerate my AL80s until I finally break down and buy smaller AL cylinders.

I use 200 bar Sea Elite manifolds. If I had it to do over, all of the manifolds would be 300 bar.

 

[ScubaTexan]

About 2 years ago he got me a set of twin OMS 45's and I have to tell you that I love diving them more than any single tank I have ever dove.

I saw some twin 45s on the OMS website a few weeks ago and they do look like they would be a lot of fun to dive with.

 

[cool_hardware52]

I have faber LP 85's, some old 2250psi 72's, a set of faber LP 120's and I also used doubled Catalina 80's and some Catalina "Compact" 100's

May first choice is the LP 85's, light enough to shore dive, gas em up a tad and you can get two dives comfortably.

The 72's are also very user friendly, light, inexpensive, easy to get full fills.

The doubled AL 80's are ok, but I broke down the set I had after only a few dives, the LP 85's are just a nicer set. The LP85 are just slightly negative empty ~-1 lbs IIRC instead of +4 for the AL 80's

The compact AL 3300 PSI 100's were a mistake. Large, heavy, harder to fill. I would not do it again.

The faber 120's are huge, and heavy. Pump em a bit and you have a LOT of gas. The size of the 120's is very noticeable in the water, atleast for me.

I recently picked up a pair of Faber LP 46's. I need to refurb the tanks, and I going to build up a set of mini doubles for my daughter (but she may not get to use them all the timeeyebrow ) I estimate they will be just about the same weight as a LP95.

I use a DSS backplate and wing (oddly enough) Usually with either a 45 lbs Torus or a LCD 50 wing. I also have a prototype 40 LBS Torus that I use occassionally with the 85's / 72's.


Regards,


Tobin

 

[wedivebc]

I dove lp85s for years. As soon as I needed bigger I went to a rebreather. Now I dive double LP 19s. Still like the 85s though.

 

[Dive_Girl PNW]

DAVE!! Hey you! Long time no chat!

Oh and quit bragging!

 

[BabyDuck]

very recently started 95's & man are they heavy. i'll be a wiry stick insect in a few months from hauling them around. i don't have a doubles wing yet, so mainly borrowed classics so far. gotta get one of my own, though...