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@stuartv you want to minimize wet connections and the good ones are pretty bulky unfortunately.
This is in the UWLD subforum, so technically we are not supposed to talk about other manufacturers, but given this is not a product that @Bobby makes, I hope he doesn't mind. I have full confidence he will delete this if he does.
Light Monkey and several others make standalone heater valves that look like this. You can make the cord length as long or short as you want, and you could tie a bolt snap to the end of the E/O cord and clip it off to a d-ring if you were so inclined to make it not floppy. When not in use, you can remove the whole thing and plug it, but that's a lot of work. Many people will have a second suit, or just deal with it. If you're going to bother removing it though, just use a nice dual inflator, and the Si Tech Vega is by far the best of the lot, and say you only use the heater seasonally, you can remove it and swap the inflator over to a normal one. Takes maybe 5 minutes, and is a far better solution IMO than having an extra hole, and/or adding the complexity of another type of wet plug
This is in the UWLD subforum, so technically we are not supposed to talk about other manufacturers, but given this is not a product that @Bobby makes, I hope he doesn't mind. I have full confidence he will delete this if he does.
Light Monkey and several others make standalone heater valves that look like this. You can make the cord length as long or short as you want, and you could tie a bolt snap to the end of the E/O cord and clip it off to a d-ring if you were so inclined to make it not floppy. When not in use, you can remove the whole thing and plug it, but that's a lot of work. Many people will have a second suit, or just deal with it. If you're going to bother removing it though, just use a nice dual inflator, and the Si Tech Vega is by far the best of the lot, and say you only use the heater seasonally, you can remove it and swap the inflator over to a normal one. Takes maybe 5 minutes, and is a far better solution IMO than having an extra hole, and/or adding the complexity of another type of wet plug
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