comes off the reg, down your right side, and has to make the turn somewhere to come back up your chest.
The "typical" place is behind your canister light.
What if you don't have a canister light?!
Well, the pouch is in the same place on the Halcyon rig that I have. It's a hard-backed pouch, with an internal stiffener that
makes it very stable on the harness.
Its in almost exactly the same place a light canister would be.
Thus, the hose routes out of the reg, down my right side, around the pouch, up my chest and around my neck to go into my mouth.
The bolt snap is only for times when you do not have it in your mouth and want to secure it - since I'm not doing staged deco dives (yet anyway) its primary purpose is a place to "park" the reg when I'm on the boat so it doesn't drag on the deck and/or get smashed or stepped on.
The problem I see with the ACB is that it does not give you a good place for the hose to route around. So what do you do with the hose? Sutff it in the strap? That's not so good from my point of view.
You could run a shorter (5' or so) hose, but now you have a hose that goes under your arm and has no real "attachment" at the bottom where it loops back upward. I don't like that one bit; its FAR more likely you're going to run into a problem deploying that than the 7'er around the pack.
Basically, my problem with the ACB is that I think they hose my long hose routing. I don't have a set of them to try it, but from the pictures I've seen so far I don't see how I can accomplish the long hose routing with them on my kit.
The Dive-Rites WOULD allow it (since they're vertical rather than horizontal, and thus have a "tab" below the harness big enough to insure that the hose stays put) but they have the problem of being Velcro closures, which I find unacceptable for ditchable weight retention.
