What reg do you use?

[scubaculture]

ScubaPro MK25 / S600

More than happy with it. So far I haven't had anything come close to the ScubaPro set, havent had many problems in cold water either, but then again coldest I've been in is around 12 degrees C

 

[GoBlue!]

ATX200/ATX40

Jim

 

[nativenarcosis]

SP for reliability, ease of service and availablility for parts.

 

[Lightning Fish]

Aqualung Titan LX Supreme for my primary and the Aqualung Octopus LX for my backup.

Dive mostly in Vancouver.

 

[Kestrell]

If you can afford ScubaPro, there is absolutely no reason to buy anything else.

If you cannot afford ScubaPro, then Apex, Zeagle, and Atomic are also good.

Are you saying ScubaPro costs more than Atomic?

Also, while I rate ScubaPro highly I wouldn't say they are better than Apeks or Atomic.

 

[Kestrell]

Normally USD Micra Adj, but the best bargain we have in the family is a (really) cheap unbranded Taiwanese reg which cost less than US$100 and outperforms anything else we have tested to 40m+. My wife loves it and refuses to change. It's been in regular use for 3 years without a hitch, been serviced once purely as a precaution and is coming up to a second routine service.
I haven't decided what to brand it - the shop had a full range of stickon logos so you can decide if it's Scubapro / Aqualung / Mares or whatever...
You know, so people think you bought an expensive reg.

Why not get creative and combine a few stickers. You could have a ScubaLung or an AquaPro. After a few people check it out you can watch them go crazy trying to find ScubaLung on the web or locate their nearest AquaPro retailer.

 

[Mark Vlahos]

US Divers (Aqua-Lung)

SEA First stage DIN
Micra + Second stage
Micra + (Yellow) Octopus

For doubles I have a second set like the first (with only one second stage), I just remove the yellow octo from the long hose set and deal with the SPG and inflator hoses as needed.

The octo has been known to freeflow from time to time, but only near the surface at the beginning of a dive. With it on a necklace I know immediately when it is happening, usually all I need to do is flip it so the mouthpiece is down until I am below 10 feet or so.

At this time I do not yet have deco regulators and I can't decide if I should "retire" my two above mentioned regulators to deco bottles (of course after having them serviced for 100% O2), and buy new regs for the backgas or buy new regs for deco. I am leaning towards buying new backgas regs but it is quite expensive, as I am sure all of you know.

Mark Vlahos

 

[MarcHerm]

ATX100 and ATX40 as octo...
It is a very nice combination... nice to breath and extremely reliably (as i dive almost exclusively in cold water this becomes quite important).
If the water is extremely cold or the dives are deep I add a second first stage (Apeks DS4) for redundancy. I've never had to test it though and i hope i never will...

bye

 

[montyb]

Now have a poseidon jetstream as my primary set. Dacor 960 1st stage and XLB pacer as second stage for my back up regulator when other is in the shop.
Montyb

 

[nwdiver2]

Thank you all; for contributing to this poll. The results are interesting as the percentages of regs used are very different than they are here in Vancouver. I think there is an availability bias that is regional, not local.