Why run the BO from your on-board dil at all? My on-board dil is far more likely to be hypoxic than my offboard BO. I can and often do use 10/50 dil with 18/45 or 21/35 BO.
The OP (me) is mod 1, so air diluent only, for now.
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Why run the BO from your on-board dil at all? My on-board dil is far more likely to be hypoxic than my offboard BO. I can and often do use 10/50 dil with 18/45 or 21/35 BO.
I have both a shrimp and I keep a second stage on a bungee loop around my neck. The shrimp is driven from the same bailout source as the second stage.
Not too bulky at all. Additionally, if I am unfortunate enough to get a caustic, I have a fresh clean working second stage right under my chin.
As for routing, I spent some time measuring hose lengths to get the hose routing pretty clean. I also drive my DIL from the same off-board source, so there's a QC6 female end connected to a splitter that drives the BOV and the ADV, that splitter and the QC6 are on my left shoulder.
I dive a KISS classic but have several friends that do the same with their Meg's, JJ's, SF2's and other rigs. Remember, our focus is cave diving -- I've done dives where a 3L bottle wasn't enough for just wing and drysuit inflation due to depth changes and bottom times, let alone dil.
If I was doing simple non-penetration diving, I'd go ahead and use on-board dil. My BOV would still be connected to the bailout though.
I meant that @Tassi Devil Diver 's dual source system doesn't accomplish much and makes it more likely to have hypoxic gas feeding the BOV.The OP (me) is mod 1, so air diluent only, for now.
If you offboard the dil (for caves as @kensuf said) The onboard (usually left) cylinder makes for a cushy amount of suit gas.Interesting! So you don't use onboard dil at all? What unit?