Deo
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OMS redesigned their combined psi/bar SPG, it's now smaller and the display is different.
Photos of both new and old spg here
Unfortunately, IMHO the redesign was a really bad idea. The SPG display became extremely hard to read, because of the following factors:
- smaller display diameter
- unnecessarily increased pressure range. Are there any tanks with working pressure higher than 5000PSI used in scuba diving?
- 250 PSI tickmarks were replaced with 10 BAR tickmarks and moved closer to the display center. That further decreased the distance between tickmarks, making them even harder to tell apart. Moreover, the needle is wider there, so it obscures the tickmarks more
- triangular tickmarks for every 1000 PSI take space and, when obscured by the needle, make it harder to tell apart, e.g. 1100PSI from 900PSI
Overall, that was really a bad purchase. Wish I could exchange the two gauges I bought for PSI only gauges :sad_2:
Photos of both new and old spg here
Unfortunately, IMHO the redesign was a really bad idea. The SPG display became extremely hard to read, because of the following factors:
- smaller display diameter
- unnecessarily increased pressure range. Are there any tanks with working pressure higher than 5000PSI used in scuba diving?
- 250 PSI tickmarks were replaced with 10 BAR tickmarks and moved closer to the display center. That further decreased the distance between tickmarks, making them even harder to tell apart. Moreover, the needle is wider there, so it obscures the tickmarks more
- triangular tickmarks for every 1000 PSI take space and, when obscured by the needle, make it harder to tell apart, e.g. 1100PSI from 900PSI
Overall, that was really a bad purchase. Wish I could exchange the two gauges I bought for PSI only gauges :sad_2:
