Hi,
I'll be down there soon and wonder if it's possible to get tanks VIP fast anywhere; say drop off before 6pm and get back the next morning ? It would be real convenient if I could pick up clean tanks after checking out of hotel in the morning; anyplace offer this kind of speed in Key Largo? It would be nice to get this done while I'm there even though they still have a month before the VIP year is up. Also, where is good to get fast air/nitrox fills for HP steel tanks while you wait close to MM100? Would need to get fills probably within the 45 minutes between a.m and p.m trips.
Is it OK to fill a tank with air and the next time it is filled - to be filled with say banked 32% NITROX? I usually dive with just air, but sometimes would prefer nitrox for the dive plan. My tanks were oxygen cleaned last vip and the way I understand nitrox mixing, sometimes pure oxygen is added into the tank with the right amount of compressed air to get the proper %. So does using air (21%) to fill your tanks somehow make them unclean for nitrox use? It seems to me that switching between air(21%) and higher oxygen mixes(up to 40%) should not be a problem. Is it normal for a LDS to drain tanks of air and then fill with the banked nitrox mix, or to calculate existing psi for volume of air and add oxygen and air to create the desired %? I know that there are several gas mixing methods; is there a LDS in Key Largo that could serve my needs by giving me air fills into my tanks when I want them and then switch to 32%nitrox when I need them quickly? Or would it be faster fills to find a shop that could put 32% into my tanks that have air in them now and then just stick with 32% for all dives? What shop could do this that is open the latest in the evening; not sure what time I'll be arriving, but have dives planned the next morning after arriving.I have read some posts about shops being quite strict with fills, so just trying to get some info before I show up for some diving; I don't want to put the nitrox band stickers on my steel tanks but I do have the nitrox card.
Thanks,
Matt
I'll be down there soon and wonder if it's possible to get tanks VIP fast anywhere; say drop off before 6pm and get back the next morning ? It would be real convenient if I could pick up clean tanks after checking out of hotel in the morning; anyplace offer this kind of speed in Key Largo? It would be nice to get this done while I'm there even though they still have a month before the VIP year is up. Also, where is good to get fast air/nitrox fills for HP steel tanks while you wait close to MM100? Would need to get fills probably within the 45 minutes between a.m and p.m trips.
Is it OK to fill a tank with air and the next time it is filled - to be filled with say banked 32% NITROX? I usually dive with just air, but sometimes would prefer nitrox for the dive plan. My tanks were oxygen cleaned last vip and the way I understand nitrox mixing, sometimes pure oxygen is added into the tank with the right amount of compressed air to get the proper %. So does using air (21%) to fill your tanks somehow make them unclean for nitrox use? It seems to me that switching between air(21%) and higher oxygen mixes(up to 40%) should not be a problem. Is it normal for a LDS to drain tanks of air and then fill with the banked nitrox mix, or to calculate existing psi for volume of air and add oxygen and air to create the desired %? I know that there are several gas mixing methods; is there a LDS in Key Largo that could serve my needs by giving me air fills into my tanks when I want them and then switch to 32%nitrox when I need them quickly? Or would it be faster fills to find a shop that could put 32% into my tanks that have air in them now and then just stick with 32% for all dives? What shop could do this that is open the latest in the evening; not sure what time I'll be arriving, but have dives planned the next morning after arriving.I have read some posts about shops being quite strict with fills, so just trying to get some info before I show up for some diving; I don't want to put the nitrox band stickers on my steel tanks but I do have the nitrox card.
Thanks,
Matt