rEvo modifications, tweaks and customisations

[stuartv]

@Wibble, if your SPGs get in the way, there is room for optimization. I have SPGs on my Meg and rEvo - there are zero issues with properly selected hose lengths and routing. Transmitters are nice and expensive. Four transmitters will run me $1.6K and I am not in the mood of replacing the transmitters every time I grab a different rebreather. All my rigs are "grab and go"; always ready for diving!

Waah! I dive a $12K rebreather, but $800 for a better SPG solution is too expensive!

 

[lermontov]

Waah! I dive a $12K rebreather, but $800 for a better SPG solution is too expensive!

especially as you hardly need to look at it

 

[stuartv]

especially as you hardly need to look at it

Yes. It is generally so needless, I think many don’t look at them at all during most of their dives.

But, I have posted before regarding my experience of losing dil - knowing that I was losing it and working to correct the problem - and being alerted by the red alert on my NERD that I was about to run out. I didn’t realize how fast I was losing it.

I credit my AI and NERD for saving me from an even bigger inconvenience than I was already dealing with.

 

[mr_v]

I don't need an expensive toy to tell me about a DIL leak. Also, yeah, I don't spend money on toys I don't need so that I can buy breathies and SF Tech suits.

 

[Wibble]

Diving on my own (as usual) on a wreck and noticed some bubbles behind my head. Had a check of everything, but still the bubbles bubbled, not huge amounts but definitely not a good sign.

So stopped and waited, observing the oxygen and dil pressures over a few minutes. Didn't move (although the oxygen went down as per normal with the orifice). Hmmm... Must be the bailout. Turned that off and flushed the regulator. Bubbles stopped.

Turned back on; bubbles started behind my head again. Hmmm... Then checked the bailout valve LP hose; loose. Got it... Finger tightened, no more bubbles.

Turns out the bubbles were travelling up the loop cover and exiting behind my head.


Having the digital pressure gauges meant that smaller delta changes were much easier to monitor than with an analogue gauge. Knowing that my oxygen and diluent weren't dropping gave me the hint that it had to be either the bailout or the suit inflate.

That's pretty much the only time having the greater "accuracy" of digital gauges was relevant during a dive. Normally it's just an approximation I need.

I don't dive with the BailoutValve now. More complexity compared with the simplicity of a necklaced "proper" regulator.

 

[broncobowsher]

There is also the data logging that you get. Not just the start/end pressures. But where in the dive profile the swings happen at. I knew I used more O2 at the end of the dive, but never knew I used that much more.