I have a rEvo III Mini (stainless). It has a Don Six stand on it. I.e.:
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I'm diving it with 3l steels.
In the ocean, in a 5mm wetsuit, I don't need any weight at all and I get good trim.
In fresh water, in my drysuit with thickest undies, 6# of lead is enough. I may find I can use even less, but 6 seems pretty minimal, really, for having a drysuit and thick undies.... Anyway...
I'm guessing I may need 10 or so when I get in salt water with my drysuit and thick undies. Or could be a little more. We'll see.
So far, to add weight to my unit, I used hose clamps to mount trim weight pouches on the outsides of my cylinders. I intended this to be temporary, just until I figure out how much weight I need and where I need it. Like so:
I also found that with the weight in those pouches (2 x 2# in the lower pockets and 2 x 1# in the upper), I was a bit head heavy. I tried it first with my Deep6 fins. I could get down, so it was enough weight, but when I would get still, I was going head down. I switched to my Hollis F1 fins and then my trim seemed to be okay.
Now that I have an idea of how much and an inkling of where, I want to figure out a permanent solution for holding my weights.
I don't want to mount actual lead, because I don't want to have it there when I dive wet. And I don't want to need to carry lead if I fly somewhere with my rEvo. I would like to mount the weight pouches that I am using somewhere, so that I can just put weight in when I need it. I would also rather have the pouches mounted on the unit and not the cylinders, as I have 2 sets of cylinders and plan to get 1 more. Also, I would like to have at least a pair of pouches lower down on the unit so that I might be able to achieve good trim while using my Deep6 fins (which are neutral).
A final mention: The normal rEvo thing seems to be weight in the rEvo weight pouch that affixes to the shelf at the top of the unit. I don't want to put weight up high like that. I need it down lower. Also, my unit has a Shearwater HUD and the black box for the HUD is mounted there on that top shelf. And, I can't figure out any other good place to mount that black box anyway.
Anybody have any suggestions?
What I was thinking about is cutting down a cutting board (or other sturdy piece of plastic) and mounting it inside the stand. Then semi-permanently affixing trim weight pouches to that. The pouches and weight would be sort of "inside" the stand. But, these pouches only hold 4# each, max. So, I would probably need 4 pouches, total. And I probably don't want ALL my weight there in the stand. That might make it where I am foot heavy and neutral fins aren't enough to fix it. Thus I am still left trying to figure out the best way to mount 2 weight pouches somewhere around the middle of the unit.
I wouldn't be too bothered if my final solution ended up leaving a pair of trim weight pouches on the cylinders, like I have them now. The pouches aren't that expensive, so buying one pair for each set of cylinders is not a big deal to me. But, if there were some kind of "tank strap" that was the right size to go around 3l steels, and I could use that to hold the trim weight pouches on the cylinder, and thus, easily move the weight pouches from cylinder to cylinder, that would be cool too - if the strap were thin enough to fit between the cylinder and the fixation (which I doubt, so that's probably not an option).
Thank you for your thoughts.
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I'm diving it with 3l steels.
In the ocean, in a 5mm wetsuit, I don't need any weight at all and I get good trim.
In fresh water, in my drysuit with thickest undies, 6# of lead is enough. I may find I can use even less, but 6 seems pretty minimal, really, for having a drysuit and thick undies.... Anyway...
I'm guessing I may need 10 or so when I get in salt water with my drysuit and thick undies. Or could be a little more. We'll see.
So far, to add weight to my unit, I used hose clamps to mount trim weight pouches on the outsides of my cylinders. I intended this to be temporary, just until I figure out how much weight I need and where I need it. Like so:
I also found that with the weight in those pouches (2 x 2# in the lower pockets and 2 x 1# in the upper), I was a bit head heavy. I tried it first with my Deep6 fins. I could get down, so it was enough weight, but when I would get still, I was going head down. I switched to my Hollis F1 fins and then my trim seemed to be okay.
Now that I have an idea of how much and an inkling of where, I want to figure out a permanent solution for holding my weights.
I don't want to mount actual lead, because I don't want to have it there when I dive wet. And I don't want to need to carry lead if I fly somewhere with my rEvo. I would like to mount the weight pouches that I am using somewhere, so that I can just put weight in when I need it. I would also rather have the pouches mounted on the unit and not the cylinders, as I have 2 sets of cylinders and plan to get 1 more. Also, I would like to have at least a pair of pouches lower down on the unit so that I might be able to achieve good trim while using my Deep6 fins (which are neutral).
A final mention: The normal rEvo thing seems to be weight in the rEvo weight pouch that affixes to the shelf at the top of the unit. I don't want to put weight up high like that. I need it down lower. Also, my unit has a Shearwater HUD and the black box for the HUD is mounted there on that top shelf. And, I can't figure out any other good place to mount that black box anyway.
Anybody have any suggestions?
What I was thinking about is cutting down a cutting board (or other sturdy piece of plastic) and mounting it inside the stand. Then semi-permanently affixing trim weight pouches to that. The pouches and weight would be sort of "inside" the stand. But, these pouches only hold 4# each, max. So, I would probably need 4 pouches, total. And I probably don't want ALL my weight there in the stand. That might make it where I am foot heavy and neutral fins aren't enough to fix it. Thus I am still left trying to figure out the best way to mount 2 weight pouches somewhere around the middle of the unit.
I wouldn't be too bothered if my final solution ended up leaving a pair of trim weight pouches on the cylinders, like I have them now. The pouches aren't that expensive, so buying one pair for each set of cylinders is not a big deal to me. But, if there were some kind of "tank strap" that was the right size to go around 3l steels, and I could use that to hold the trim weight pouches on the cylinder, and thus, easily move the weight pouches from cylinder to cylinder, that would be cool too - if the strap were thin enough to fit between the cylinder and the fixation (which I doubt, so that's probably not an option).
Thank you for your thoughts.
