Equipment Setup

[LilmanHSU]

Everyone,

I just bought my regulator rig and I wanted help in setting it up myself.

The 1st/2nd Stage are together, but the Octo, Computer, and LP Inflator hose need to be attached.

I want to learn how to plug all that stuff in and make the necessary adjustments..

How would I do that?

Next, how do I "tune" everything and test it out, rather than take it into a shop.. Or should I take it into a shop anyway? If I should take it into a shop, what do I tell them? What am I having them do?

Here is the breakdown of what I bought:

Scubapro MK25/S600
Sunnto Vyper and compas
Oceanic GT Octo

BTW, I bought all this stuff on Leisurepro.. Aside from UPS being one day late, everything appears new and in good working order from a visual standpoint. In case anyone is wondering, thus far, the experience with them is good.

Thanks!

Paul

 

[MechDiver]

This is why people with no experience should not buy life support equipment on the internet.

You "should" not have to "tune" anything, unless LP didn't put it together correctly.

 

[DiveTub]

Although its relatively easy to put it together when you know how to do it, I would take it all to my local LDS and ask the technician to guide me through putting it all together.

This will give you a much better result than if getting it wrong

 

[Lemonade]

Although I think, Sydney_Diver makes a perfectly good suggestion, if you have your mind set on assembling it yourself, search this board. There are threads describing how to do this.

 

[Phat_HC]

I’ve got to second Sydney_Diver on this one. Please for your own safety have someone at you LDS show you how to hook all this gear up. As you bought it online don’t be surprised if they charge you to do it but at least you’ll have the piece-of-mind that your gear is safely assembled.

 

[LilmanHSU]

Great.. Thats what I intended to do, but I wanted to get the general consensus first.

I took it to Sport Chalet and they did it for free. Works great!

 

[Lead_carrier]

Glad you got it working. You should have immeadiately called Leisure Pro. They told me that personally guarantee everything they sell and they are better than using a LDS.

 

[chrispete]

You should have immeadiately called Leisure Pro. They told me that personally guarantee everything they sell and they are better than using a LDS.

So..... LP is going to guarantee that when they are walking someone who's never put a rig together before over the phone!? that there will be no problems whatsoever - as in they will walk the person through checking all of the orings for scrapes and cuts, walk them through lubing the orings with chicken fat (I know that I didn't have any Krytox or silicone at my house when I got my first reg set), checking the IP with a kitchen spoon, some yarn, and a cracker jack box, getting the optimum tune for the reg (note that he is running 2 different brand regs on the same first - I seriously, seriously doubt that it is set up for optimal operation "out of the box" in this situation.)

Lilman, glad you got such a good deal on getting your rig set up at that shop.

 

[MechDiver]

chrispete once bubbled...


checking the IP with a kitchen spoon, some yarn, and a cracker jack box, getting the optimum tune for the

I assume, with your IP setup, the correct tune would be "The Lord's Prayer"?

Personally, I would have charged $75 to screw the thing together for him. But then, I'm mean.

MD

 

[chrispete]

Nope, the IP guage and magnehelic work just fine for my tuning purposes. If I had to recite a prayer over a reg set to get it right I wouldn't let anyone dive with it.