Coconut Monkey
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Ayy manYou say argument, I say discussion lol
It's ok dude, we can have different opinions
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Ayy manYou say argument, I say discussion lol
It's ok dude, we can have different opinions
No you don’t have two SPGs, you have two tanks, each with their own SPG. No redundancy.Sorry i use sidemount(2 spgs yes) and there are considerable amount of case studies of transmitter losing signal due to the same frequency that the nearby divers or i suppose if you have 2 transmitters emitting - Shearwater even recall some of their transmitters back to change the radio signal frequency.
Don't get me wrong, i also own a Teric and a transmitter but spg is fool-proof - just a personal preference
I can't help myself to ask: why? I mean, the worst thing that could happen when loosing air pressure reading is you have to abort the dive. Nothing to get excited about I think?
Sorry i use sidemount(2 spgs yes) and there are considerable amount of case studies of transmitter losing signal due to the same frequency that the nearby divers or i suppose if you have 2 transmitters emitting - Shearwater even recall some of their transmitters back to change the radio signal frequency.
Most users reported no issues as it is highly unlikely that you will turn the transmitters on at the exact same time.
I didn't say it was life and death, but it's definitely a dive ending situation, as said. On a liveaboard, it may be a trip ending situation if the liveaboard isn't well equipped with spares.
. So in my short experience with AI tech, it sure doesn't seem reliable as an analog SPG.
spg is fool-proof
Not if you're carrying a backup SPG. Why depend on the charter to bail you out when you can pick up a spare for about $50?
You got a lemon and you're taking your one rather unique negative experience and generalizing it to AI and transmitters as a whole, which is just wrong.
I have a very nice analog SPG from Deep6. It's served me well. I was going to leave it attached to my first stage, after getting an AI console, but was told by a few posters that AI tech is very reliable these days and that I would only be creating another fault point by having both.