Hi guys,
So we stepped up into the new millennium and each got a Shearwater Teric and transmitter. I had a few general questions regarding install, travel, and use.
- Do the majority of people plug the transmitter directly into the hp port of their 1st stage? I feel like the transmitter and port will take a beating this way.
- Does anyone use a 6” hp hose to mount their transmitter?
- When traveling, do you remove the transmitter from the 1st stage or do you carry the regulator on your carry on?
- Do you trust the transmitter to not fail or do you have a regulator with 2 HP ports and have an analog backup? Both of our regulators only have 1 HP port.
- It appears that I can monitor my wife's air by setting up the T2 on the Teric. How far is the range? Curious if anyone else does this.
We have 2 other divers in the family, so I can always use the 2 old regulators for them when they vacay with us, so all is not lost.
I was looking at the Cressi Compact MC9 – opinions?
Thanks for any feedback
1- I used to because I thought I'd always be able to guarantee that no one touched my gear.
Under normal circumstances, that stood true. I'd unpack, setup, swap tanks, disassemble, rinse, and pack my gear myself.
But on occasion, because of unforeseen reasons, I found out my gear was handled.
Once, during a lunch surface interval at the resort, they moved all our gear from the boat we were on to another boat for some reason.
Another time, emergency repairs had to be carried out right where some great was setup in the equipment hangar. So they naturally moved all our gear to another section of the hangar.
While rare, it does happen.
2- now use a 15 cm hose
3- neither disconnect transmitter nor being as carry on - aptly packed and cargo
4- nothing will not fail - if quality, it's only a matter of time - if junk, then often
I trust that the transmitter won't fail often enough to become a nuisance
5- I've had it not transmit a few times when a hose or my back-mounted redundant tank's first stage came in periphery of the transmitter and line-of-sight of my perdix