Hello everyone,
I've now clocked 250 dives on my old mk5 + r109's now and have recently started to become more interesting in going the technical diving route. While I had a nice instructor who allowed me to use my 'antique' combo as he called it, for my advanced eanx and all the tech prequisites ( adv rec trimix / + tech lite or however you want to call it) which is basically an IANTD-style fundies,The complaints and funny looks over the 109's have gotten rather tiresome
I have plenty of (older) regs, but am looking for something modern specifically scubapro, just to see what their modern regs are about, since I've been so happy about the r109's / mk5 combo.
I would like to do my full cave this year and was thinking of finally taking the plunge and switching to something more modern.
I've narrowed it down to three choices:
the mk19 - g260
or mk19 - d420
or mk17 - g260
The s600 second might be an option too, but I'm not sure if it's actually a big improvement to the g260 design? I've considered the a700 for a second, but it's the ugliest regulator on the market in my opinion, so yeah... not rly.
I do most of my diving in winter so freeze resistance is the main topic. I've yet to had a freeflow, but I do get very paranoid on long dives in sub40 water with the mk5's...
I've never used the d-series and here in Belgium they don't have the best reputation because they are supposed to be difficult to tune properly.
But I was wondering if the design of the d-series is suited for very cold diving, or is it more something you should avoid?
I've now clocked 250 dives on my old mk5 + r109's now and have recently started to become more interesting in going the technical diving route. While I had a nice instructor who allowed me to use my 'antique' combo as he called it, for my advanced eanx and all the tech prequisites ( adv rec trimix / + tech lite or however you want to call it) which is basically an IANTD-style fundies,The complaints and funny looks over the 109's have gotten rather tiresome
I have plenty of (older) regs, but am looking for something modern specifically scubapro, just to see what their modern regs are about, since I've been so happy about the r109's / mk5 combo.
I would like to do my full cave this year and was thinking of finally taking the plunge and switching to something more modern.
I've narrowed it down to three choices:
the mk19 - g260
or mk19 - d420
or mk17 - g260
The s600 second might be an option too, but I'm not sure if it's actually a big improvement to the g260 design? I've considered the a700 for a second, but it's the ugliest regulator on the market in my opinion, so yeah... not rly.
I do most of my diving in winter so freeze resistance is the main topic. I've yet to had a freeflow, but I do get very paranoid on long dives in sub40 water with the mk5's...
I've never used the d-series and here in Belgium they don't have the best reputation because they are supposed to be difficult to tune properly.
But I was wondering if the design of the d-series is suited for very cold diving, or is it more something you should avoid?