How to add weight pouches to my rEvo?

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Obviously my weighting will be different but here's what I do. You might be surprised that you don't need as much weight as you think in salt water.

In warm freshwater (65-75f) no weight required. Annoying with 2-3 AL80s since wing is very inflated.
In cold freshwater (37-65f) I use 2-4lbs (depending on what layers I use this includes an additional fleece vest and I like to be able to loft my undergarments.)
In saltwater I just use 8lbs (2x4lbs) on top of the unit. This works pretty well for me.

Thanks for that.

I was at 6 # in cold freshwater, with my thickest undies on. When I get my next chance, I will try dropping another 2 and see how that goes. But, to be sure I'm not too light, when I go in the ocean in a couple of weeks, I was thinking I would start with 10#. I will have a slightly thinner undergarment on, as well, so I THINK that will be more than enough, without having me ridiculously overweighted, either. I can cut down on the weight from there, to find what my minimum is.

And, that amount of weight means I can just go with 1 weight pouch on each cylinder and stuff a soft weight under the scrubber cover to have all the weight i need. That definitely works for me.
 
I think you're be able to get away without a weight belt through combination of top weight (even it's just 2lbs) + softweight in scrubber and your cylinder weights. Personally I wouldn't use those pockets on the tanks since I switch tanks often and I could see them possibly getting stuck on things (inside a wreck or cave) but if they work fine.

@Tug also mentioned another method which is to thread weights behind your harness. I don't like doing this and I find it pretty annoying but people do it.

Here is an example of that.
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Proper Kent tooling stand = 2.6kg on the bottom, 3.1 Kg on the top shelf and another 2.6kg hanging by a vertical bar bolted to the top back plate. All in all about 17lb’s dispersed between the bottom, middle and top.
 

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When I'm diving in thick underwear I use a 5 lb Dsix weight between my scrubbers and depending how cold it is, 2-4 lbs in a pouch on top of the unit. This summer I'll be trying a Fourth Element halo undergarment (which is quite lofty) so I'll be adding some weight, as I figure out how much more lead I need I'll use a weight belt—easier to make adjustments. My unit is a titanium micro, I usually dive it with 3 litre steel tanks but I've used carbon fibre tanks in the tropics with a 3 mil wetsuit and I'm neutral with one bailout. In my 7 mil wetsuit with the steel bottles I'm a little heavy on the surface but at depth, with multiple AL bailout bottles, I'm kinda heavy. Much as I like to dive wet in tropical water I might start diving dry for the deeper stuff…
 
I attached two weight pockets (each for 2kg) on the waist belt of my rEvo just behind the lower D-rings. This gives 4 kg on the waist belt + 2 kg in the top weight pouch. If I need more (in cold water, ice diving) I add 1 or 2 kg with a normal weight belt.
 
I attached two weight pockets (each for 2kg) on the waist belt of my rEvo just behind the lower D-rings. (...)

Same for me. Found some pouches which the belt fits so tightly that I can shift them UW if needed but still maintain position.

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