VIP / Fill

[Scuba-74]

Don’t you have fill “vendingmachines”? Put some change in, get them filled and next time you go for a fill at the lds they won’t be empty.

Not sure if you are joking, or machines like that really do exist.

It's probably not a rocket science to design one, but unless it can also read hydro stamps and vip stickers, it would be an enormous liability.

 

[Tribal]

At this side of the world there are many.

this is a bigger one with 200 and 300 bar fills and air and nitrox. There are a lot of them that only offer 200bar air.

for nitrox you do need coins from a dive shop, they check your C-card. Air is possible with money.

 

[Scuba-74]

Wow! Suba regulations (and possibly laws of physics ) in Europe must be completely different than those in the US.

Here, LDS checks the hydro stamp before filling a tank, because otherwise it can blow the place up! Apparently not a concern in Europe, unless those machines are capable of scanning the hydro stamp.

 

[Tribal]

We just like to dive, not worth on skipping a hydro and blow yourself up. That way we won’t be able to dive anymore

 

[Wookie]

Wow! Suba regulations (and possibly laws of physics ) in Europe must be completely different than those in the US.

Here, LDS checks the hydro stamp before filling a tank, because otherwise it can blow the place up! Apparently not a concern in Europe, unless those machines are capable of scanning the hydro stamp.

Who ya gonna blow up? Not the shop employee, not the store, doesn’t look like a passerby, either.

 

[rob.mwpropane]

At this side of the world there are many.
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this is a bigger one with 200 and 300 bar fills and air and nitrox. There are a lot of them that only offer 200bar air.

for nitrox you do need coins from a dive shop, they check your C-card. Air is possible with money.

That's amazing! Wow that's neat. We will never have the mentality required to do something like that in the states. I can see it now, teenage kid trying to put 5000 psi in his paintball tank through a garden hose.

It would be great to have one of those set up for certified / trusted divers at / outside the dive shop. If they caught you filling past hydro your banned for life.....but it would happen, no doubt.

 

[runsongas]

if you can't find a better LDS, you should start looking for a friend with a compressor or getting your own compressor.

 

[rhwestfall]

Aren't there a few similar (crude) "self fill" options in "Cave Country"?

 

[Wookie]

Aren't there a few similar (crude) "self fill" options in "Cave Country"?

Not crude at all.

 

[Diver below 83]

At this side of the world there are many.
View attachment 549075
this is a bigger one with 200 and 300 bar fills and air and nitrox. There are a lot of them that only offer 200bar air.

for nitrox you do need coins from a dive shop, they check your C-card. Air is possible with money.

That’s pretty damn cool