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First post to ScubaBoard..... Cherry broken.
So what's the deal with getting air fills? Should I be upset if I don't get 3000psi on the mark? The reason I ask is, in my limited experience, 2750 or 2800 psi seems to be the norm. However, I was out at a local scuba park on Sunday and after lugging my tank from the fill station back to the water, i hook my reg up and see that I'm only at 2200psi. I felt like going back and demanding that they finish the fill, but laziness got the better of me and I went ahead and dove with the under filled tank since we'd planned a short dive anyways.
What is the actual protocol here. If a full tank is 3000psi, then why does it seem that you never get that, or have I just been unlucky so far (again, I am a pretty new diver)? Would anyone have gone back and asked that they top off the tank, or stopped by the fill station on the way out, explained the situation and asked for a free fill to compensate? Heck, I even tipped the guy for the poor service... what a sucker I am.
Thanks for your feedback.
So what's the deal with getting air fills? Should I be upset if I don't get 3000psi on the mark? The reason I ask is, in my limited experience, 2750 or 2800 psi seems to be the norm. However, I was out at a local scuba park on Sunday and after lugging my tank from the fill station back to the water, i hook my reg up and see that I'm only at 2200psi. I felt like going back and demanding that they finish the fill, but laziness got the better of me and I went ahead and dove with the under filled tank since we'd planned a short dive anyways.
What is the actual protocol here. If a full tank is 3000psi, then why does it seem that you never get that, or have I just been unlucky so far (again, I am a pretty new diver)? Would anyone have gone back and asked that they top off the tank, or stopped by the fill station on the way out, explained the situation and asked for a free fill to compensate? Heck, I even tipped the guy for the poor service... what a sucker I am.
Thanks for your feedback.