This thread needs new life. I think I need an electric o2 booster. What are my best options starting from scratch. I need everything, booster, whips, filters the works. Masterline ($$$$) ? Sierra+modification($$$)? Home brew?
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Be careful filling 2 and 3 litre cylinders. You can get them too hot to touch.
A masterline will be awesome and set you back north of 10 grand by the time you add whips, etc.This thread needs new life. I think I need an electric o2 booster. What are my best options starting from scratch. I need everything, booster, whips, filters the works. Masterline ($$$$) ? Sierra+modification($$$)? Home brew?
How many do you want? Looking for turn key or a project? How fast? What pressure?This thread needs new life. I think I need an electric o2 booster. What are my best options starting from scratch. I need everything, booster, whips, filters the works. Masterline ($$$$) ? Sierra+modification($$$)? Home brew?
Not sure what you are talking about?The Sierra conversion is no more unless you have a machine shop.
Ok, Looking for one booster. Would prefer a project. No timeline, only assembling items to use in the future as my diving goes from 30m to 60m more or less. I will want to boost O2 and scavenge trimix from spent bottles back into storage tanks. Filling 3L bottles will also need to be done as I suspect I will try to go from OC to CC as swiftly as I can to save on He costs as my training deepens. I don't see myself doing a ton of deep OC stuff beyond what is required to advance necessary training. While I have no timeline on this build, I do find the hobby of breathing gas equipment and techniques as interesting as exploring cool stuff at depth. I have only begun to look around at compressing gases and still learning the dangers of boosting O2. Building whips is the easy part. Determining which booster to buy/build and how to maintain it is my current path. I have a supply of o2 .049 SS tubing, bending and flare tools for JIC. So if there is a, buy a block add filters, check valves, accumulators, fittings, ect. path, I would choose that option. Pressure needed is up to 3500 or what is recommended for selected gas. I suspect I will need to scavenge o2 and trimix into cylinders as small as 3L up to K size. Once I determine my gas plan for what diving I am doing here along the West coast of California I will have o2 clean cylinders for all my gasses. I have ultrasonic and tumbling equipment along with my plan to do all my own visual inspections. PSI courses in the works.How many do you want? Looking for turn key or a project? How fast? What pressure?
To kick off I think it best to first define the outline design performance parameters and requirements.I will want to .....SNIP scavenge trimix from spent bottles back into storage tanks.
2. Stainless tubing I would avoid at all cost and suggest an Alpha Brass or bronze material such as Tungum. Your CR is way too high for stainless steel or stainless iron. Your flow rates in gas velocity terms for the .049 wall is much too fast and the heat dissipation at the approach side of the second stage head if you make that 2 stage modification is going to put you in the red zone of risk.Building whips is the easy part. I have a supply of o2 .049 SS tubing, bending and flare tools for JIC.
3. You will need to modify the heads and the spring on at least the discharge side from the original piano wire steel to at least an inert to oxygen Monel spring simply to reduce the fuel that the original steel spring/spring would cause in the event of an oxygen fire.So if there is a, buy a block add filters, check valves, accumulators, fittings, ect. path, I would choose that option. Pressure needed is up to 3500
And you’re using parts from Masterline to do the conversion?Not sure what you are talking about?
I have done two in the last month and have two more sitting on the floor waiting on me to start on them.