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Yes, all of the more recent Cyklon, Jetream and Xstream first stages, have been prepped for nitrox use, at the very least; and some — the Xstream "Duration," for pure O2 (for CCR use).Hi everyone,
Juste wondering if cyclon and jetstream are usable with nitrox > 40% ?
If there was ever to be a memoir of life in Baja in the late nineteen-eighties to the early nineties, you've generously provided its title: Normalization of Deviance -- from obtaining O2, a dodgy trans-fill whip (which was constructed in house), and tanks from a half-assed welding shop in El Centenario, which really looked like something out of Mad Max, back then, still an ejido (sort of a state-run commune -- and has since become an expat retirement enclave) with the desert and a few shotgun shacks on one side and even a couple of smoldering wrecks off of a steep gravel shoulder, on the seaside.No argument there, @Bigbella !
We are a country of laws.
Hence, Viton.
And yet, my JJ-CCR is filled with Nitrile orings whose canister regularly sees 100% O2.
Still, the problem remains. There are not a few components that will autoignite above 1500psi in 100% oxygen at very modest temperatures.
Add Normalization of Deviance, which is to say, sloppy technique that hasn't killed them yet, and you have one of the cases of regulator fire. IMO, it's 80% accumulated hydrocarbons and fast tank opening. When you add adiabatic heating to a system not specifically designed for oxygen, there is plenty that will burn, from Viton to nylon to titanium.