ISC Meg Modifications

[kensuf]

I've got a meg15 and tiburon, run them pretty much stock, and have no complaints. I like the minnow counterlungs. The only real "modification" I have is a QC6 port for plumbing in DIL, useful for cave diving where you're potentially encountering a lot of sawtooth profiles.

FWIW, you probably won't be able to be trained with it configured with backmount counterlungs, you'd need to do that after the fact.

 

[211ratsbud]

Im not qualified to speak on behalf of a Meg user here. I never dived it as a Meg my 2.7 had problems when I got it(they're old, and been around and for ever, mine needed work I didn't know about ) and the 15 had a absolutely terrible handset battery life, including after the replacement. (Couch diving for 15 minutes killed the battery).

So I cut it up.

A lot of my friends dive Megs, and about quarter of them have moved to BMCL.

The others are still on minnows or fmcl.

Everyone has a shrimp. Fair warning about the shrimp adapters being of questionable construction. I've never made a post about it but I had problems with mine (not a ISC part)

One thing I can say is you can use Lombardi hoses which are far better than ISC hoses when considering flexibility, and a standard 40mm BOV or DSV. The hoses fit the Meg t pieces perfectly.

 

[mr_v]

@211ratsbud, thank you for the info. Do you know why your dive buddies prefer Shrimp valves? I am considering a Divesoft or a Poseidon BOV due to high manufacturing quality and availability. I gave up looking at Shrimp valves/products, because every time I looked for a part, it was not in stock.

 

[211ratsbud]

@211ratsbud, thank you for the info. Do you know why your dive buddies prefer Shrimp valves? I am considering a Divesoft or a Poseidon BOV due to high manufacturing quality and availability. I gave up looking at Shrimp valves/products, because every time I looked for a part, it was not in stock.

At least one person with a shrimp I have sold a dive soft iBOV now as well. They prefer the nerd mount on that. It is also a lighter BOV.

The shrimp just seems to have been the standard for some time.

Yes I understand the stock issues. I sell both dive soft and sub gravity.

 

[Vicko]

Switch the ADV for something else, the original has 2 settings, leaky and impossible to breath from. I hated diving my pathfinder until i tried out my friends CL with a apkes reg for adv. It solved 90% of my buoyancy issues.

I felt like Tom Cloony batman until I switched to silicone loop hoses, it actually made looking left and right possible.

The original HUD is hard to see in sunny conditions, nerd was to distracting for me but my friend had a custom HUD with brighter lights and it made it actually useful.

What does the Meg do that the Revo doesn't?

Function properly in all conditions.
Sorry, I had to.

 

[mr_v]

Switch the ADV for something else, the original has 2 settings, leaky and impossible to breath from. I hated diving my pathfinder until i tried out my friends CL with a apkes reg for adv. It solved 90% of my buoyancy issues.

I felt like Tom Cloony batman until I switched to silicone loop hoses, it actually made looking left and right possible.

The original HUD is hard to see in sunny conditions, nerd was to distracting for me but my friend had a custom HUD with brighter lights and it made it actually useful.

Thank you!

Function properly in all conditions.
Sorry, I had to.

Oh come on, you did not have to go that route. @Wibble and I have rEvos, and we are friends IRL; he was being sarcastic.

 

[mr_v]

Switch the ADV for something else, the original has 2 settings, leaky and impossible to breath from. I hated diving my pathfinder until i tried out my friends CL with a apkes reg for adv. It solved 90% of my buoyancy issues.

Hey, I am re-reading the comments, as I am getting a list of mods. Did you mean to say "BOV" instead of "ADV?" Thank you!
Nm got it.

 

[rjack321]

The ISC BOV is super nice TBH. Way better than the shrimp. I havent used any others. My 2.7 is otherwise stock except for being convertible from onboard dil to offboard only dil via a QC6

 

[211ratsbud]

The ISC BOV is super nice TBH. Way better than the shrimp. I havent used any others. My 2.7 is otherwise stock except for being convertible from onboard dil to offboard only dil via a QC6

I sold mine before I used it (classic mistake)

Personally, the DSV from the Meg was probably the nicest DSV I had used. I absolutely don't like their breathing loop hoses however, including the newer style silicone ones.

 

[mr_v]

Has anyone replace Shadow Mounts with Metalsub brackets? If so, how do you like it? I have both options available.