How many additional failure points are you really willing to add? What is a splitter going to do to your hose routing? I can say I would not allow this on a reg in any con ed class I was teaching.
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You are adding only one failure point and if you had instead a first stage with a second HP port than isn't that the same number of failure points. The OP is going down the road of redundancy and over complication. He is wanting to carry two instruments were one will suffice because it is a new techno toy and ever so cool. So you would allow an additional failure point with the transmitter and the spg but if a splitter adds one more failure point to the quagmire, you would not approve it?
I just do not understand, one has a good spg that works fine, but that is not enough, so to add to that, an electronic one that may or may not always work and needs batteries and yet you are talking about a failure point with a splitter. I guess my priorities are off as usual.
The Mk V and similar, including I believe the Hog, has a rotating turret with a dynamic O ring plus four or five LP ports all with static O rings, and a splitter that does a similar thing is a problem. Well, I guess this splitter is a HP splitter, so there is that. Somehow, in the grand scheme, this just does not raise red flags. Even if it leaks or an O ring fails, the tiny pin sized outlet is not going to be a life threatening issue for a recreational diver. However, blowing an O-ring on the MkV turret could be. How often does that happen? I have seen one break off that had the original brass nut. Yes, I realize we are talking Titan, not MkV, I am making an example. Oh, but with the Titan like all diaphragm regs, if the push pin fails, the upstream HP seat locks down. How often does that happen?
But, yeah, splitters are sometimes a kludge I guess.
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