Stainless backplate for tropical diving

[Badger7]

I think the whole‘taco effect’ comments on 30lb wings is over exaggerated.
Mares and DGX wings are good examples of 30lb wings that are compact.
I doubt many rec divers in warm water would notice or feel a difference when diving one.

I think you're right, and 95% of rec divers in warm water are slightly to very head-up trim as well, dumping from their corrugated inflation hose, not from their hip dump, wing shape and size largely irrelevant.

 

[RIHappyDiver]

I know you don’t care about travel weight, but, to put a rest to travel weight statements, while the soft plate may give you more weighting options in the water, it won’t save you in the way of luggage weight. As an example, the DGX SS BP/W (SOOO many initials) weighs in at about 9#, whereas the DGX soft plate set up weighs in at about 9#. The Dive Right/DGX system, per DGX, weighs in at about 12#.
The DGX BP/w with aluminum will save you a bit of weight, 3#, and allow for a slight amount of ditch able wt, but this seems negligible.