My Telephone Pole valve design, better than an H-valve?

[FFMDiver]

Take a gander at this valve I designed. Besides the inherent snag risk (present in h-valves anyway) I designed this DIN dual valve with the knobs bent over the shoulders
for those of us single tank divers who dont practice yoga routinely. After owning both a thermo H valve and a Beuchat Y valve (which is the best Ive found yet) I have found that reaching thier knobs without tilting my rig to be tricky at best. This way they are near your ears and you dont have to buy the OMS "slobwinders." The post is much higher than average H-valves. I call it the telephone pole and drew it in google sketchup. Any feedback on my design?

 

[Web Monkey]

Take a gander at this valve I designed. Besides the inherent snag risk (present in h-valves anyway) I designed this DIN dual valve with the knobs bent over the shoulders
for those of us single tank divers who dont practice yoga routinely. After owning both a thermo H valve and a Beuchat Y valve (which is the best Ive found yet) I have found that reaching thier knobs without tilting my rig to be tricky at best. This way they are near your ears and you dont have to buy the OMS "slobwinders." The post is much higher than average H-valves. I call it the telephone pole and drew it in google sketchup. Any feedback on my design?

Unless it's maybe a foot and a half tall, it looks like it would just smack me in the back of the head all the time.

Terry

 

[akscubainst]

Looks like a real complicated solution to a problem that really doesn't exist. You can have about the same result by lowering the BC on the tank. That design is not only not practical, it would cost a fortune to produce.

I'm assuming those are the outputs on the lower branches. Since they are not inline with the knobs, how do you shut the gas down?

DM

 

[FFMDiver]

maybe this helps..notice the attitude...
of course these are very rough models and things are not exactly scaled 100% but you get the general idea I think. excellent feedback on the valve stems being away from the outputs...wasnt designing from a practical engineering standpoint...

 

[FFMDiver]

maybe this would be more realistic to shut the valves on and off.

 

[Walter]

Eliminate one of the burst disks.

 

[FFMDiver]

Eliminate one of the burst disks.

mmh? I would think like the Y and K there would be only one on the vertical stem..

 

[marchand]

What happens when you look to the side?

 

[stairman]

Now sketch the guys head with regs and hoses attached.

 

[ucfdiver]

Have you tried grabbing the 1st stage to pull the tank some, and then grabbing the valve? Before getting too complicated, I'd just switch to small doubles for complete redundancy.