How Much Weight Do YOU Have On Your Cam Band?

[dkatchalov]

This is a slightly different question to the one I posted about a week ago.

I am planning to carry 4kg of weight (8.5 pounds) on my upper cam band. I dive a bp/w with two dive rite cam bands.

Is 4kg too much? How much do you have on your cam band? Is it possible that that much weight may loosen the band, etc?

Note I will be putting the weight in two pouches - 2kg each. The pouches will sit as close to the wing as possible to ensure maximum balance and stability.

Will putting 5kg on the cam band be too much?

Thanks.

 

[Blackwood]

When I dive singles (which I never do anymore), I had 4 pounds on my upper band. I doubt it would cause the band to loosen at all even at double that.

However, I'm surprised that you need that much weight that high up. You should experiment a little: find out how much you need to trim yourself out (overcome foot-heaviness) and use that much.

 

[dkatchalov]

I am 6'7" tall and dive a drysuit. So I need about 30 pounds of lead with a single steel 100 and an alu plate.

Given my height, wearing all that weight around my waist tends to drag my legs down, which are pretty long. Hence I wanted to distributed some to the upper camband.

I carried 4kg on the upper band once and it was fine - it was in one pocket though rather than 2.

 

[hudson]

I did carry that weight on my camband at one point, it's fine. Except it made me waaay too top heavy. Nowadays I do with 4lbs or less + 7lbs on the belt but that's wet.

 

[Doc Harry]

I wear two 3-pound weights in my upper cam band to keep me horizontal and off-set my Jet fins.

-3mm wet suit with Jet fins
-Single AL80
-2 pound Aluminum back plate
-2 pound tank adapter
-4 pounds on the weight belt
-6 pounds on the upper cam band

 

[dkatchalov]

Cool, thanks for all the replies so far.

I also wear jets with straps, so need a bit more weight at the top.

 

[all4scuba05]

Drysuit dive: I have 5lbs on each band as well as a weighted STA.