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Yes, it's defo coming to malinWibs Jas has one now, he's pondering taking it to Malin.
My weight included bailout for sub 200' dives.Whilst we're busy weighing rebreathers... For comparison, does anyone know what a ready-do-dive twinset weighs?
I used to dive twin 12 litre steels with concave bottoms. These three are now being used as gas banks for O2, 'mix and air.
Have just weighed the full air twinset (obviously) with manifold and it's 39kg/86lbs. To dive, add to that the regulators, steel backplate, wing, a 1 litre steel drysuit inflate cylinder + regulator, and an additional 4kg/9lbs of lead V-weights. Should add the suit heater battery and torch.
Could we say 60kg/132lbs? My back says that's not far off.
I guess we can ignore the two ali80s for the deco gases as rebreathers need bailout
Whilst we're busy weighing rebreathers... For comparison, does anyone know what a ready-to-dive twinset weighs?
I used to dive twin 12 litre steels with concave bottoms. These three are now being used as gas banks for O2, 'mix and air.
Have just weighed the full air twinset (obviously) with manifold and it's 39kg/86lbs. To dive, add to that the regulators, steel backplate, wing, a 1 litre steel drysuit inflate cylinder + regulator, and an additional 4kg/9lbs of lead V-weights. Should add the suit heater battery and torch.
Could we say 60kg/132lbs? My back says that's not far off.
I guess we can ignore the two ali80s for the deco gases as rebreathers need bailout
If you scroll back several posts. My Choptima weights included bailout for a 200' dive.Lastly, I'm definitely interested in the Choptima, but in the interest of being somewhat scientific, I don't think we can say it's 25lbs ready to go. That does not include BP/W and anything else attached to a BM rebreather. It's still impressively light, but in the name of science we should add everything. Think about it logically: all the same components, but a single 1st stage (vs 2), delrin scrubber body, compared to aluminum, no need for a stand (which isn't required with every CCR anyway), etc.
We just did some weight comparisons of X-CCR, Meg Pathfinder, rEvo Micro TI w/RMS and a Choptima. The Choptima was the lightest with its (small 2L? steel tank), but compared to the X-CCR with dual 3L steels attached to it... I was surprised by how light the whole X-CCR package was. All of them were way lighter than my doubles and everyone had at LEAST dual AL40's for BO/deco. The Choptima had dual LP50's (and I don't recall if he had any other cylinders).
Anyway, I think this is a valuable thread, can't wait to read more. Hopefully my posts contributes to it.