XDEEP zen deluxe or standard

[hedonist222]

I have the deluxe. No complaints.
Held up well over the last 300 or so dives.

But, will pass it on and get something like a 10 or 13 liter ecause my typical diving doesn't require the xdeep zen 20 liter bladder.

 

[gordonscuba]

Well considering the benefit of a plate is to put weigh on your back and share the load, with these things


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you're paying for the cheesegrater holes, buying pockets, and repairing your suit when it rubs through

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and no one is looking at it

I have a friend who has done a couple thousand dives on the zen with the cheese grater backplate and 7mm fourth element wetsuits. I get how it looks like it might damage a suit from the picture, but the reality is, there was no damage to the suit for whatever reason. He replaced the suit when, after hundreds and hundreds of dives, the frequent re-compression of the neoprene made it permanently compress, but there was zero damage from the backplate.

 

[GDHLEWIS]

Have used both standard and deluxe set up on my Zen. I have found the deluxe adds clutter and faff and prefer the standard. My current set up is still the deluxe and Ill get rid of it in the coming few months when I can get the energy together lol. I have dived with various suits and no suit and find the plate does not cause ANY damage at all. If you can try on the standard and deluxe then make the decision

 

[happy-diver]

They're rubbish plates with no weight nor substance to them for show offs, make your diving show you off
Who is the latest superhero that wears that stuff, can't remember, Action Man, Gumby, GI Joe, Miley Cyrus

 

[hedonist222]

Well considering the benefit of a plate is to put weigh on your back and share the load, with these things


you're paying for the cheesegrater holes, buying pockets, and repairing your suit when it rubs through


and no one is looking at it

Hey happy diver

Have had mine for 4 years and about 450 dives.
No damage to wet suits.
The orifices are slightly beveled inwards and rounded.
So, it would not be a good cheese grater.

 

[Pepa]

Thank you so much for all the advice!!! Now I'm also taking a look at the XDeep Zeos, which is cheaper also.
Do you have any experience with it? I'm not sure about the weight diving with a trilaminate drysuit. Do you recommend the Xdeep weight pockets?

 

[hedonist222]

Thank you so much for all the advice!!! Now I'm also taking a look at the XDeep Zeos, which is cheaper also.
Do you have any experience with it? I'm not sure about the weight diving with a trilaminate drysuit. Do you recommend the Xdeep weight pockets?

Unless you wanna matchy matchy, I see no reason to get the xdeep pockets over other reasonable options. I have a pair of dive rite pockets attached to my tank cam band. Utilitarian.

 

[Pepa]

Thank you again!!!

 

[FreqFlier]

Xdeep weight pockets are really good. Trim weight pockets on the other hand you can get anywhere, not necessarily Xdeep.
Aside from a backplate shape and size and bladder material there are two major differences between Zen and Zeos. Different inflators (which may or may not make any difference for you) and most importantly different shape (and lift capacity) wings. Zeos is more donut shape (read - regular) where Zen is more like upside down horseshoe shape. Makes a huge positive difference if you are a bit lower body heavy in the water. It tends to lift lower part of your cylinder a bit more (read - less trim weights needed).

 

[DiveLikeAMuppet]

Zeos works nicely with a trilam drysuit. Steel backplate in cold water, aluminium in warm or for travel.

I bought Xdeeps weight pockets and didn’t like them at all and used trim pockets instead. You can attach trim pockets to cylinder cam bands too.

The backplates that come with Zeos are just “standard” backplates so you can just swap the wing and dive a twinset easily.