cranstonjdc
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Do you have to buy Nitrox tanks? Can you use a normal scuba tank? Im planning on doing the enriched air certification and was just curious.
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Regular tanks, they just have to be O2 cleaned before you start using them with Nitrox. Any dive shop should be able to do this for you.
Wrong!
You only have to O2 clean a Nitrox tank when you're doing "partial pressure blending". Partial Pressure blending is when they mix the nitrox by first introducing 100% Oxygen into the tank and then topping it off with o2 clean compressed air.
If you're going to get "banked", or DNX blended, or some other mixing methods, you don't have to have an o2 cleaned tank for blends less than 40% Nitrox. You just direct fill it.
If you ever go above 40%, for deco gas for example, then you'll need a 02 cleaned tank.
Wrong!
You only have to O2 clean a Nitrox tank when you're doing "partial pressure blending". Partial Pressure blending is when they mix the nitrox by first introducing 100% Oxygen into the tank and then topping it off with o2 clean compressed air.
If you're going to get "banked", or DNX blended, or some other mixing methods, you don't have to have an o2 cleaned tank for blends less than 40% Nitrox. You just direct fill it.
If you ever go above 40%, for deco gas for example, then you'll need a 02 cleaned tank.
So the tanks you see with the nitrox stickers can they be used for regular air and nitrox or just nitrox?
So the tanks you see with the nitrox stickers can they be used for regular air and nitrox or just nitrox?