Currently diving my PST HP100. Specs:
Empty: -1.3 Full: -8.8
My e8-130 comes in on Tuesday (yippie) and it's specs are:
Empty: -4.8 Full: -14.6
I'm currently diving with a Steel BP/W with 10# on the belt for my HP100. I won't get a chance to "test dive" my 130 (and therefore, won't get a real world weight test) but if it the specs state the 130 is 3.5 pounds more negative (more negative...??!!) empty than the HP100, has your experience been I can roll 3 or 4 pounds off the belt?
Although I should probably weight for true empty (500).... Is the -3.5 enough to sweat until I can do a real weight test, or should I just dive with the 10# I have been diving?
My thought is this: I'll be diving with people diving the e8-119 and even 95's...so the chances of me getting to 500# (and thus, a true empty weight situation) is unlikely. I'll always have gas in the can. And so I'll likely always be significantly heavy:
* The -3.5 (all things equal...both empty)
* The excess gas I'll be schlepping around as my buddies will have smaller cylinders
Options:
1) Take -3.5 off the belt for this water heater
2) Keep my weight the same and deal
Those of you who switched to the 130's... how did you change your weighting? Was it close to PST's posted specs?
Thanks -
K
Empty: -1.3 Full: -8.8
My e8-130 comes in on Tuesday (yippie) and it's specs are:
Empty: -4.8 Full: -14.6
I'm currently diving with a Steel BP/W with 10# on the belt for my HP100. I won't get a chance to "test dive" my 130 (and therefore, won't get a real world weight test) but if it the specs state the 130 is 3.5 pounds more negative (more negative...??!!) empty than the HP100, has your experience been I can roll 3 or 4 pounds off the belt?
Although I should probably weight for true empty (500).... Is the -3.5 enough to sweat until I can do a real weight test, or should I just dive with the 10# I have been diving?
My thought is this: I'll be diving with people diving the e8-119 and even 95's...so the chances of me getting to 500# (and thus, a true empty weight situation) is unlikely. I'll always have gas in the can. And so I'll likely always be significantly heavy:
* The -3.5 (all things equal...both empty)
* The excess gas I'll be schlepping around as my buddies will have smaller cylinders
Options:
1) Take -3.5 off the belt for this water heater
2) Keep my weight the same and deal
Those of you who switched to the 130's... how did you change your weighting? Was it close to PST's posted specs?
Thanks -
K