Rapid Exhaust on Inflator - pros/cons

[tracydr]

then the inside cable was not the correct length..... The valve should trigger before the hose is extended to its stress point...

or, your corrugated hose was in poor shape, but then again, the cable should not have let it stretch that far....

---------- Post added August 1st, 2013 at 08:02 AM ----------



Its just that things don't sit unemcumbered. If you use a STA, it may not even conflict.... Likely if I flipped my 1st stage, I might not have any contact, but I prefer it below vs. above...

You don't use a STA with the DSS wing/ BP.

---------- Post added August 1st, 2013 at 08:08 PM ----------

???

What's this in reply to?

Sorry, I meant this to be in reply to post # 11. Not sure what happened there.

---------- Post added August 1st, 2013 at 08:12 PM ----------

I spoke about inflator valve location with an employee at my LDS. He has an OMS wing that, like the Torus, has the inflator going into the wing at the center top, behind the head. He also had problems with the hose interfering in the first stage, so his workaround was to get a longer inflation hose and, instead of having the hose run down the front of his chest, he routes it down the back of the wing to his left side at his waist (near where a dir spg would be). The inflator button stays there, he says, and it still dumps fine without having to be pointed upwards (as PADI instructs). He claims that lifting the end of the hose up while dumping fills the bcd with water. Thoughts on this?

This sounds like a cluster.
I don't see how it will work when its not lifted up, but, I guess I've never tried. Then again, I don't use my inflator hose as a dump the PADI way all that often because it requires you to be nearly vertical and now a days, I'm usually closer to horizontal. Butt dump is more likely to be the one I choose.

 

[rhwestfall]

You don't use a STA with the DSS wing/ BP.

Yep, moment of fogginess....... my bad...