fire_diver
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Filling your own pony bottles
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For me, I just don't get the time/$ savings. My LDS fills the pony free. (I patronize them regularly, have a solid relationship, something that not everyone does.) After diving I refill my main tanks, so if the pony's down a bit, or I've practiced with it, they top it off.
Since I do take it on travel, which means emptying it, taking it on flights, I'm quite content to shell out the handful of $ to get a normal VIP done -- hey, it's life support, my last-gasp bailout air, the thing I really don't want to be worried about. When I return from my trips they do a quickie free check.
Since I do take it on travel, which means emptying it, taking it on flights, I'm quite content to shell out the handful of $ to get a normal VIP done -- hey, it's life support, my last-gasp bailout air, the thing I really don't want to be worried about. When I return from my trips they do a quickie free check.
Mandy3206
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allenwrench:
Thanks buddy, exactly what I was looking for!!
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A simple connector whip is very useful on a boat, especially if you end up using the pony. You just top it off before the next dive.
I recently got one and it is extremely useful in getting up to 3 full dives out of a single LP 125 (which has been pumped to around 3100 psi to start). I can get 2 nitrox dives that approach no-deco limit in 110 feet depth and then just steal a little off the top of another bottle and can make a third dive. My SAC rate is not good. This is very useful on a mult-day trip when you have no compressor.
I think leisure pro may have them. It is necessary to have an integrated guage if you want to try to top off tanks rather than just equalize them,.
I recently got one and it is extremely useful in getting up to 3 full dives out of a single LP 125 (which has been pumped to around 3100 psi to start). I can get 2 nitrox dives that approach no-deco limit in 110 feet depth and then just steal a little off the top of another bottle and can make a third dive. My SAC rate is not good. This is very useful on a mult-day trip when you have no compressor.
I think leisure pro may have them. It is necessary to have an integrated guage if you want to try to top off tanks rather than just equalize them,.
Another source:Mandy3206:
http://www.gmcscuba.com/index.html
and sequentially click on:
Product Catalog
Section 2
Tank pressure checking and equalizing
Tank equalizing
56150
Or from their home page, download their catalog and look on page 21.
Packhorse
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I do the same thing. I couldn't find a proper yoke-yoke wip so I went to the local Hydralic/Pnumatic hose specialist and they made me a wip that connects to the HP ports on my regs. The only problems with this is it takes a little messing around with the regs to hook it up and because of the oriface size in the HP ports of the regs it takes a while to fill. But since I dont have to fill it very often its not really a problem.
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