Hi people, I need some advice on a pair of E-8 130's. How far are your top bands from the tank neck? Please measure from the top of the band to curve. Mine are 1cm or .4inch. I think I may need to make it even less than 1cm. Could that be right? Please state if you dive in a wetsuit or drysuit. Thanks.
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Boogie711
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There is no right or wrong answer. It depends on your body size and where the tanks best sit in order to achieve horizontal trim. Wetsuit, drysuit, wing size, shape... I don't think you'd learn a lot from a thread of this description.
I always put the bands up as high as possible to the start of the curve. Probably 1cm or less distance from the top of the band to the start of the curve. Its not that big of a deal.
rab
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Well, whether this answer helps you at all is completely up to you.
In my case, with a Zeagle Ranger and a single E8-119, the top band is about even with the beginning of the curved part of the cylinder. Any lower and I tend to hit my head on the 1st stage too much. Don't really have enough dives yet to say if I really need to make additional adjustment for trim. Oh, yeah, 5/3 full wetsuit.
-Rob
In my case, with a Zeagle Ranger and a single E8-119, the top band is about even with the beginning of the curved part of the cylinder. Any lower and I tend to hit my head on the 1st stage too much. Don't really have enough dives yet to say if I really need to make additional adjustment for trim. Oh, yeah, 5/3 full wetsuit.
-Rob
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