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Wow, how things change. I remember when mentioning the word transmitter or AI on this board got a huge amount of flaming responses on entanglement, failure, etc even for recreational diving and now they are accepted for cave.
 
Wow, how things change. I remember when mentioning the word transmitter or AI on this board got a huge amount of flaming responses on entanglement, failure, etc even for recreational diving and now they are accepted for cave.

Shearwater changed the game by allowing you to have a no-compromises computer in addition to transmitters. Prior to the Perdix AI, nothing else was a good enough computer option to even bother with it
 
For overheads I’d go with the transmitters on 6” hoses.....hard mount gives me the heebee geebees......I’d keep it simple and put a button gauge on the firsts if you must have a third means of gas knowledge.
We've had some back-and-forth about button gauges on another thread, and other people have pooh-poohed the idea, but I still second the idea of using button gauges in the top-facing HP ports. Button gauges aren't exactly accurate, and they're not very useful underwater, but they're exceedingly convenient for getting a quick-and-dirty pressure readout while on the surface. I use my button gauges for that purpose every time I dive SM.
 
I’ve gone with a direct swap of the SPG’s with transmitters on the 15cm hose. Just doing fun dives around Koh Tao but so far it’s freakin brilliant. I can literally see the decrease in Bar from a couple of breaths. Barring technical issues I’m seeing no good reasons to adjust this configuration.
To quote the McDonald’s slogan, I’m lovin it.
 
Wow, how things change. I remember when mentioning the word transmitter or AI on this board got a huge amount of flaming responses on entanglement, failure, etc even for recreational diving and now they are accepted for cave.
I remember the Baker's Dozen reasons for not using a computer at all. Advances in technology have made them pretty much obsolete. I love AI for the rec dives I'm doing now and if I was going on another cave diving trip I'd add a second transmitter to my side mount regs.
 
We've had some back-and-forth about button gauges on another thread, and other people have pooh-poohed the idea, but I still second the idea of using button gauges in the top-facing HP ports. Button gauges aren't exactly accurate, and they're not very useful underwater, but they're exceedingly convenient for getting a quick-and-dirty pressure readout while on the surface. I use my button gauges for that purpose every time I dive SM.
The second time the button gauge hung up in my shoulder d-ring I took them off and haven't missed them. When the guys with experience tell me things, I listen when all other options have been exhausted. There are plenty of other reasons, but that one was undeniable. If I want an analog spg, I'll just go with the real thing.
 
I concur with others who have suggested transmitters only. I've never had a problem underwater.

My only suggestion, have a spare transmitter or spg in your save a dive kit. I've had 2 fail, both above water.
 
Two transmitters? What sort of failure?

One was burning through batteries (like overnight) then stopped. The other was working during a dive on a Saturday then dead when I setup my gear on the Sunday morning. Shearwater replaced the units and I have a third so no big deal.

Both failures were easy to catch and unless I didn't do gear checks would never be an issue.
 

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