Deco bottle set up with Stealth

[OMANDIVER]

Hi all anyone know how to set up one deco tank with x deep stealth? Diving 8.5l steels and intending to use 7l AL for light deco in open water. I have searched on line and on the fb page without success. Wanting to understand if deco goes above or below lh cylinder and how it attaches. I use standard loop bungee with 1st stages inwards on main cylinders. Also any thoughts on length of hose. Many thanks

 

[gfaith]

I should probably let someone else answer your question, but having recently read Rob Neto's "Sidemount Diving" he say deco goes below your regular sidemount tanks. Stages if needed would be on top. It is a pretty good book by the way.

He adds another loop bungee to pull it up tight to the chest, and states the reason he puts them basically in under in front is to verify the deco mix is correct and he has the correct second.

 

[rddvet]

Pretty simple. Standard deco bottle rigging (dir I guess?) goes below sm tank. Clip top to chest bungee bottom to either a dring placed in the appropriate spot on the waist belt or you can use the rubber dring if its free. Very straightforward.

 

[Aotus]

I should probably let someone else answer your question, but having recently read Rob Neto's "Sidemount Diving" he say deco goes below your regular sidemount tanks. Stages if needed would be on top. It is a pretty good book by the way.

He adds another loop bungee to pull it up tight to the chest, and states the reason he puts them basically in under in front is to verify the deco mix is correct and he has the correct second.

Yes, deco goes below, but for most people, so do stages.
Rob's method of mounting stages is tricky to get down, by all accounts, even with instruction. Also, top mounting stages is not common practice outside of the FL cave diver community, where steel tanks and high flow in caves influences common practices.

 

[OMANDIVER]

Pretty simple. Standard deco bottle rigging (dir I guess?) goes below sm tank. Clip top to chest bungee bottom to either a dring placed in the appropriate spot on the waist belt or you can use the rubber dring if its free. Very straightforward.

Thanks for that, do you add an additional bungee loop? If so could say where it fixes? Rubber d rings sre free at the bottom as inuse the square brackets for the steels

 

[rddvet]

There's no need for a bungee loop for deco or bottom mounted stages. The top boltsnap holds it tight up top and the swing on the bottom of the bottle is determined by your leash length and attachment point position.

 

[DevonDiver]

I use two methods, depending on the five requirements:

1. Regular deco staging. I use this if only 'shuttling' a deco tank down to a wreck and will stage it immediately, then penetrate. It's not so streamlined, but quick to remove and replace. There's many resources online on how to configure that. Needless to say, it rigs underneath the primaries.... on front waist D-rings and shoulder D-rings.

2. My preference method keeps the tanks very streamlined. I rig the tanks with a worm-screw/jubilee clip band. The height of the band is 1" higher than the bands on my primaries. Put a 6" loop of 8mm bungee under the band with a med/lge bolt-snap on the end. At the top, rig a medium sized boltsnap on some 5-6mm bungee to fit snug around the cylinder neck.

It attaches at the bottom to the rear waist D-ring. If using aluminium primary tanks, bring that primary down to the front waist D-ring....creating a counter-force between the deco and primary as the attachments cross. Pull up the upper bolt-snap and clip it to the shoulder D-ring.

(I'll try and dig up some pics... Most only on my phone for now).

This method seems to work excellently with loop bungees.... both primary and deco cylinders are snug and trim.

 

[OMANDIVER]

I use two methods, depending on the five requirements:

1. Regular deco staging. I use this if only 'shuttling' a deco tank down to a wreck and will stage it immediately, then penetrate. It's not so streamlined, but quick to remove and replace. There's many resources online on how to configure that. Needless to say, it rigs underneath the primaries.... on front waist D-rings and shoulder D-rings.

2. My preference method keeps the tanks very streamlined. I rig the tanks with a worm-screw/jubilee clip band. The height of the band is 1" higher than the bands on my primaries. Put a 6" loop of 8mm bungee under the band with a med/lge bolt-snap on the end. At the top, rig a medium sized boltsnap on some 5-6mm bungee to fit snug around the cylinder neck.

It attaches at the bottom to the rear waist D-ring. If using aluminium primary tanks, bring that primary down to the front waist D-ring....creating a counter-force between the deco and primary as the attachments cross. Pull up the upper bolt-snap and clip it to the shoulder D-ring.

(I'll try and dig up some pics... Most only on my phone for now).

This method seems to work excellently with loop bungees.... both primary and deco cylinders are snug and trim.

Many thanks thats very helpful

 

[Aotus]

Yes, deco goes below, but for most people, so do stages.
Rob's method of mounting stages is tricky to get down, by all accounts, even with instruction. Also, top mounting stages is not common practice outside of the FL cave diver community, where steel tanks and high flow in caves influences common practices.

Here's a great little video of bottom and top-mounted bottles (he has a lot of great videos).

Jump to 2:09 for mounting

 

[lermontov]

is there a good reason for stage or deco below main cylinder or is it just preference
how do you maintain sideways trim with deco bottle on one side, what about putting it on your back like a standard set up