I can see an issue with batteries but not with components aging when we are talking about electronics. Please explain.Pairing often sucks when the components age and batteries are replaced late.
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I can see an issue with batteries but not with components aging when we are talking about electronics. Please explain.Pairing often sucks when the components age and batteries are replaced late.
They get bumped and rattled around a lot.I can see an issue with batteries but not with components aging when we are talking about electronics. Please explain.
Re read the post, even after removing the typo ("each tank"), it doesn't add up. ☺Jack Hammer ; he posted his cave fill is 3600 so his thirds are 1200
There's a nice Sidemount article in X-ray magazine in #56 that includes tank/reg switches.
Thanks! For those interested, here is the link to download: X-Ray Mag #56 | X-Ray Mag or http://www.xray-mag.com/pdfs/xray56/X-Ray56_iBook_locked.pdf. The diagram makes it super simple, and basically covers what I was thinking for the start. Breathing from one tank after the turnaround makes complete sense, as if you have a failure from the tank from which you are breathing, you have in reserve enough gas to get you back.There's a nice Sidemount article in X-ray magazine in #56 that includes tank/reg switches.
Breathing from one tank after the turnaround makes complete sense, as if you have a failure from the tank from which you are breathing, you have in reserve enough gas to get you back.
The most foolproof and effective way is to switch as often as you get the chance.
Every time you have a hand free for that, just switch without checking pressure or time.
With that method you just look at your spgs occasionally to check for stupidity, but have the tanks more or less equalized all the time without checking constantly.../
Again, think of it the other way round!...It's not a system, and it's not plan, it's just switching every time you have a hand free, and if you get very task loaded, it might not happen....
Vibration is very bad for electronics, which is why I am pretty careful with my gear. BTW, my undergrad was EE, though I'll admit while I worked for Intel for a number of years, I mostly developed software.They get bumped and rattled around a lot.
Electronics also do not like pressure changes, glues age, rubber looses flexibility, plastic gets brittle, circuit boards as well, etc...
Most importantly there are huge temperature gaps between inside and outside, first stage connected side and the end sticking into the water, so you get condensation and corrode your electronics slowly.
Personally I do not trust electronics in the water at all and especially do not want any of that close to my air supply, but that's paranoid, I admit.
Especially at the surface I do not want to increase the chance of batteries close to highly concentrated oxygen or extreme drops of temperature on the frequent surface-freeflows when a tank is dropped at a bad angle.