Aeris, can we get some responses here? I also have an Ion with the AT40DVT first stage, and I am not sure I like it at all. It fell apart on me on like it's 4th dive, the front of the second stage just came apart (unscrewed). Aeris took care of it like a champ and fixed it quickly, but since then I don't feel the regulator has been consistent. I keep giving it chances to make sure its not just me. I'll have dive where everything seems perfect and then the next dive I feel like I cant get enough air. The manual says to adjust the air flow until you hear air leaking through and then back it down 1 turn. Well that was fine a couple of dives ago, but the last dive I never got it to leak air so I couldn't adjust it correctly. Guess what, on that dive I felt like I wasn't getting enough delivery. This regulator probably only has 12 dives on it since I got it back, maybe a total of 5 days use. Also the manual, as the others have said, is very poorly written. Please help or post other feelings on this regulator. Maybe I just need to exchange the whole unit.