Its a byproduct of pisspoor design in an unnecessary piece of the product being sold(ie, a crappy 'manifold' that solves no problems, but manages to increase hassle).
Ah, now bugger, you can do better than that! :blinking:
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Its a byproduct of pisspoor design in an unnecessary piece of the product being sold(ie, a crappy 'manifold' that solves no problems, but manages to increase hassle).
The setup is a nice way to allow monkey diving and enable the divers to share gas, without any convoluted hose setups.
What we've been doing here is taking a standard stage reg (1st, 2nd, 40" LP hose, plus SPG) and simply adding a second 2nd stage on a slightly shorter hose (~32") and bungeeing that one under our chins. This immediately gives you a spare second stage, the ability to donate from the mouth and go to a bungeed backup (typical DIR/OC tech donation), and is relatively inexpensive (I picked up a brand new Hog 2nd for about $70 and had a 32" hose sitting around already). Sure, a 40" hose isn't the same as a 5-7' hose, but it's no different that what you'd donate from a stage/deco bottle, and used to be one of the standard recreational OW DIR hose lengths. For ~30' max OW (non-overhead) dives, it's just fine. When you aren't monkey diving, just remove the extra 2nd stage and add back the port plug.
I missed something--what's the IP problem?
It was just a tendency to roll to the left . . . and I'd stabilize out about 45 degrees left-side down. I talked to Jeff about it, and he said I needed to have my fins farther apart, and fin gently to resist the roll.
Completely unnecessary! Actually, you want your fins closer together. You shouldn't need to fin to resist a roll. My guess is either the cylinders you had on had different buoyancy characteristics (maybe a Luxfer and a Catalina?) or the rigging wasn't set up correctly. Finning may "fix" the problem, but it doesn't address the root cause.
Oh, and I'm going to guess it was more the rigging than anything else. Here's a video of my first monkey dive. At 5:07, you'll see me hanging motionless, no finning at all, and no rolling...