Having too much weight is hassle for many reasons. One thing I'm curious about is if having too much weight means the suit is more likely to let air out the exhaust?
I found some drysuit manual that suggested that if you have too much weight you would need to close your exhaust valve down to keep air in.
At first this didn't make sense. The exhaust valve should just let air out when there's more pressure inside the suit than outside (with some factor accounting for resistance based on how far it is closed down) but then as I think about it, it seems like if you are carrying too much weight that weight needs more air in the suit to offset the weight.
So if your suit would need to have 5 psi pressure to keep enough air in for you to be buoyant, but your valve is set to exhaust anything above 3 psi, that's going to make it hard to keep enough air in and you're going to sink like a rock.
Eventually if you are way too heavy with weight, you might need so much air in the suit that it would need to be closed down entirely too keep it in, but at depth that would be dangerous because if you started to ascend without opening the valve you'll go up too fast to and need to take emergency measures to stop an uncontrolled ascent (such as fingers down the neck seal, etc)
Is that understanding correct?
I found some drysuit manual that suggested that if you have too much weight you would need to close your exhaust valve down to keep air in.
At first this didn't make sense. The exhaust valve should just let air out when there's more pressure inside the suit than outside (with some factor accounting for resistance based on how far it is closed down) but then as I think about it, it seems like if you are carrying too much weight that weight needs more air in the suit to offset the weight.
So if your suit would need to have 5 psi pressure to keep enough air in for you to be buoyant, but your valve is set to exhaust anything above 3 psi, that's going to make it hard to keep enough air in and you're going to sink like a rock.
Eventually if you are way too heavy with weight, you might need so much air in the suit that it would need to be closed down entirely too keep it in, but at depth that would be dangerous because if you started to ascend without opening the valve you'll go up too fast to and need to take emergency measures to stop an uncontrolled ascent (such as fingers down the neck seal, etc)
Is that understanding correct?