When diving with an AI computer do you also use a Redundant/backup analog pressure gauge?

[Divin'Papaw]

Let the hating begin...
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The worst of both worlds. You gonna die!

 

[rhwestfall]

oh, oh, oh, I also have a QD to remove my transmitter.....

see you on the other side.....

 

[Divin'Papaw]

oh, oh, oh, I also have a QD to remove my transmitter.....

see you on the other side.....

 

[lexvil]

That transmitter clipped close to vital organs is a baaaad idea and before someone mentions it’s normal place next to a divers head, it is an uncontested fact that divers have no vital organs in their head.

 

[waterone]

Not any more. I bring an SPG and hose along in case of an problem during a trip but I've never seen an issue with my Shearwater transmitter and computers.

This is how I travel as well and it never gets used, though with a Garmin setup.

 

[Pressurehead]

I carry a few extra spools in my save a dive kit, I have also helped others on several occasions. I carry extra batteries for my computer and for my transmitter

This ^^^^ and a SPG
One each of these in my save a dive kit.

Air Spool

www.tecdivegear.com.au

Edit: I dive solo a lot, so backup .

 

[Nemrod]

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You should patent the idea. An AI transmitter with an integral spg built into the end cap.

You added a failure point but you removed a failure point (the spool) so you are even .

James

 

[LFMarm]

Either SPG or transmitter, never both. Dive plans take into account potential loss of pressure reading.

 

[scubadada]

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Hi Rob,

What side does this run on, left side with your LP inflator hose or separate, or on the right side. Connected to a chest D ring? Do you have any pictures of what this looks like set up on your gear or in use? What was the motivation or the goals in setting up this way?

We both have a primary and secondary regulator hose and a LP inflater hose. I connect my transmitter directly on the right side and run a SPG hose on the left. You add a hose with both the button gauge and the transmitter. I guess you have an open HP port. So, by my count I have one spool you don't have, otherwise, equal.

 

[Centrals]

AI + spg? Personal choice isn't it?
I dive with two non AI dc and a spg. My choice.
No right or wrong.