I noticed on http://www.divesales.com they have a 3300 psi aluminum 80 cu. ft. tank that is supposed to be neutrally buoyant when empty and -5.8 when full. Are these decent tanks? They are listing them at $140.00 plus $20.00 shipping and I am wondering if anyone has used these. Seems like a good price. Also, because it is 3300 psi does that mean that it is a HP tank and not an LP tank?
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I haven't used one but my LDS has one in a designer brushed aluminum. I wish I had known it was a neutrally boyant tank because I already have to wear too much lead and when the tank gets empty it is worse.
If you get it let me know what you think of it?
If you get it let me know what you think of it?
I guess my main question is whether or not it is a high pressure or low pressure tank. I am concerned because I have heard that HP tanks are hard on your regulators and I haven't heard of a 3300 psi LP tank before.
WantToBe
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I think it is a LP tank but someone could confirm that.
Diverl
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All of the Neutral AL80's I have seen have been K Valves. Almost all of the AL100's I have seen have been 3300 PSI as well and they are all K Valves.
You can purchase 3300 PSI k valves. A standard K valve is usually 210 BAR and you can get 230 BAR K valves.
14.7 PSI/ATM * 210 BAR = 3087 PSI
14.7 PSI/ATM * 230 BAR = 3381 PSI
An insert can be purchased for most 230 bar DIN valves allowing them to be converted to Yoke. 300 Bar din does not have this option.
On the http://www.divesales.com web you can choose what pressure rating you want your K Valve to be 2400 PSI, 3000 PSI and 3300 PSI.
Just to make sure, I would email divesales or ask your lds about the specific tank that you wish to purchase from them.
Even though the tanks take a K valve I would not really consider them to be low pressure, but that is simply my personnel opinion.
Hope this helps!
You can purchase 3300 PSI k valves. A standard K valve is usually 210 BAR and you can get 230 BAR K valves.
14.7 PSI/ATM * 210 BAR = 3087 PSI
14.7 PSI/ATM * 230 BAR = 3381 PSI
An insert can be purchased for most 230 bar DIN valves allowing them to be converted to Yoke. 300 Bar din does not have this option.
On the http://www.divesales.com web you can choose what pressure rating you want your K Valve to be 2400 PSI, 3000 PSI and 3300 PSI.
Just to make sure, I would email divesales or ask your lds about the specific tank that you wish to purchase from them.
Even though the tanks take a K valve I would not really consider them to be low pressure, but that is simply my personnel opinion.
Hope this helps!
Most people think 1 BAR = 1 ATM, it's close but not exactly the same. It's close enough for handwaving, but if you're going to go to the ten's place on a conversion, you should use the correct value for BAR.
1 BAR = 14.5 PSI, not 14.7.
Roak
1 BAR = 14.5 PSI, not 14.7.
Roak
Diverl
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Thanks for the correction on the conversion from ATM to BAR. I was unaware that it was 14.5 PSI per bar. The stupid conversion chart I have indicated 14.7.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Is that every unit is based on every other unit, no matter how little sense it makes. 
Metric pressure is measured in something like micro dynes per fortnight meter lumens or somesuch, (ok, it's really in Pascals or Kilopascals) and no one had a good feel for how much pressure, say 1 million pascals was.
But, lo and behold, 100 KiloPascals (kPa) was just about the same as atmospheric pressure, and atmospheric pressure everyone had a good feel for, so they created a new unit, BAR. Not quite 1ATM, but close.
Actually most marketing information appears to use the conversion that 1 BAR = 15psi (which is why valves on a 3000 psi cylinder are thought of as a 200 BAR valves) to make the answers even more wrong!
Roak
Ps. What about 1 million pascals? Well that's 10 BAR, and you probably have a good feel for 10 BAR, like "about" 330 feet deep (not including atmospheric pressure)!
Metric pressure is measured in something like micro dynes per fortnight meter lumens or somesuch, (ok, it's really in Pascals or Kilopascals) and no one had a good feel for how much pressure, say 1 million pascals was.
But, lo and behold, 100 KiloPascals (kPa) was just about the same as atmospheric pressure, and atmospheric pressure everyone had a good feel for, so they created a new unit, BAR. Not quite 1ATM, but close.
Actually most marketing information appears to use the conversion that 1 BAR = 15psi (which is why valves on a 3000 psi cylinder are thought of as a 200 BAR valves) to make the answers even more wrong!
Roak
Ps. What about 1 million pascals? Well that's 10 BAR, and you probably have a good feel for 10 BAR, like "about" 330 feet deep (not including atmospheric pressure)!
Divemstr13
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Luxfer's NB 80 is: 3300 psi / 228 bar
77.4 cu ft / 2190.9 ltrs
outside dia 7.25
SW buoyancy; -7.3 full/-4.4 half/-1.5 empty
77.4 cu ft / 2190.9 ltrs
outside dia 7.25
SW buoyancy; -7.3 full/-4.4 half/-1.5 empty
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