LH/SH Config
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Dive Gear Express has the fixed angle adapters in 90 and 120* versions, though I prefer the ball swivels that are sold by Cave Adventurers.
https://www.divegearexpress.com/swivels-elbows
Cave Adventurers - Swivel - Marianna, Florida USA - Never Undersold!
Hose length is a personal preference and has a huge dependence on your first stage routing, but looks like a 40". Right now he has his primary coming out of the bottom port which I don't like for mine, but it does help cheat a few inches out of the hose. I prefer to run my first stages horizontal for this with the secondary coming out of the bottom. The issue with this is he is using a drysuit, and if you're diving a drysuit the horizontal routing doesn't work due to lack of ports. One hose would be coming straight up. I only use this configuration when I'm diving wet, and it is advantageous because I can switch between doubles and singles very easily, literally as simple as moving the long hose to the turret of the left post regulator. No other changes needed. I'm lazy.... With his setup, I'd have to move a lot of hoses and I'm not willing to do that, so I have a set of small doubles I use whenever I'm diving dry.
Omniswivels are nice, but way too expensive, the Cave Adventurers swivels for $25 work quite well. Personal preference though. I have swivels on both primary and secondary since I swap them back and forth between sidemount and backmount, but you can use a 90* on the secondary and a swivel on the primary if you get the 90* first and want to try the swivel.
https://www.divegearexpress.com/swivels-elbows
Cave Adventurers - Swivel - Marianna, Florida USA - Never Undersold!
Hose length is a personal preference and has a huge dependence on your first stage routing, but looks like a 40". Right now he has his primary coming out of the bottom port which I don't like for mine, but it does help cheat a few inches out of the hose. I prefer to run my first stages horizontal for this with the secondary coming out of the bottom. The issue with this is he is using a drysuit, and if you're diving a drysuit the horizontal routing doesn't work due to lack of ports. One hose would be coming straight up. I only use this configuration when I'm diving wet, and it is advantageous because I can switch between doubles and singles very easily, literally as simple as moving the long hose to the turret of the left post regulator. No other changes needed. I'm lazy.... With his setup, I'd have to move a lot of hoses and I'm not willing to do that, so I have a set of small doubles I use whenever I'm diving dry.
Omniswivels are nice, but way too expensive, the Cave Adventurers swivels for $25 work quite well. Personal preference though. I have swivels on both primary and secondary since I swap them back and forth between sidemount and backmount, but you can use a 90* on the secondary and a swivel on the primary if you get the 90* first and want to try the swivel.
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I'd consider getting the 5 port cap for that regulator, then you can point the cap down and slightly to the right, using the end port. This puts the hose pointing directly under your right arm. The question then is, do you simply loop back up and use a 90 degree elbow, or go under the right arm, across the chest, over the right shoulder and around the head. 44" for me would be too long for the first set up and too short for the second.
Unless you're a giant, I just don't see how a 7ft hose would not be excessive in routing this way. Don't forget, the normal 7ft routing is all the way down to the waist belt, around a canister light, and back up. The 'modified hogarthian' routing is simply under the arm, across the chest, etc. Here's a photo of me in that set up using a 3ft and a 2ft hose coupled together. It's pretty streamlined.
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40 or 44, depends on how big you are and how big of a loop you want. Your first stage has to go vertical since you only have two ports on each side so you need your primary on the back closest to the valve, secondary in front of it closest to you, then inflator on the left side per normal. Depending on your chest size and how low your tank is, a 40" is where I would start. If you're small you can probably get away with a standard 36" hose with swivel adapter for now to see if you like it.
uncfnp, call them and check, sometimes the website is not updated vs actual inventory.
uncfnp, call them and check, sometimes the website is not updated vs actual inventory.
What do you mean by this?
---------- Post added June 10th, 2015 at 12:33 PM ----------
Went with:
Braided 40 primary
Braided 22 secondary
Braided 22 inflator
Scubapro S560 for secondary reg (matches my current primary)
and I got that 90 degree elbow you recommended buddah
Thanks for the help guys
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the ports have to go out to the side,, likely identical to the way you have it now with the black cap on the top and hoses pointing perpendicular to the axis of the tank. Opposed to horizontal where you would have the octopus coming out of the bottom port and all other hoses coming down.
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