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I'm clipping the two AL40 deco bottles, one on each side for better balance --and using the PADI DSAT mnemonic to keep track of them: "Right side Rich" for Oxygen bottle, and "Left side Lean" for Eanx50
Still breathing using separate conventional dedicated individual regs for the deco bottles and NOT plugging in via QC6 into distribution block.
Good to see ya posting here again Richard (rjack321) --you keep on telling me your opinion from over ten thousand miles across the Pacific what you think my reality & experience is here on Z-system & a mixed team diving the wrecks of Truk Lagoon; and your rhetoric of the economic worth of spending money on such a system . . .(Everything is fine I'm having fun regardless of your misgivings). . .
P.S> It's Thurs 22Nov here in Chuuk: An Early Happy Thanksgiving to Y'all!
Hi everyone. I am still getting used to my Z-plus system with isolatable manifold, I am tech certified (on backmount) but plan on doing many more 2-tank air sidemount dives before planning to do any multiple-gas dives on the Z-system.
My question for you Z-sidemounters, especially with a isolatable manifold incorporated into your system, how do you switch gasses mid-dive? (Mainly in the sense of "back gas" switch to deco gas) Do you keep a traditional stage setup on your high-O2 deco bottle with a first and second stage, and switch normally? Or do you unplug left side, plug in deco gas, and simulaneaously turn on deco tank\turn off right side tank, and then breathe it off your long hose? I have been putting a lot of thought into gas switching, and I can see many different ways of doing it using the zsystem.
I am wondering, because in my purchasing of the Z-system, I was told that you could input ANY gas into the system, and still be breathing off long hose\backup. But then comes the extra vigilance and keeping up which gas is plugged in and you are breathing off of. Thanks for any input you can give, even if you are just using a Z-distribution block.
Another note/comment when doing two bottle deco on technical Z-sidemount:(Here in Chuuk Lagoon from 05 to 16Oct and again now 17 to 29Nov)
I've just been switching to deco gas bottles with conventional regs the usual way --been diving backmount doubles for the deeper wrecks beyond 45m with 50% & O2 in the AM; and Z-system doubles sidemount with O2 deco for afternoon dives on wrecks 30m or less in the PM after a 3hr surface interval.
I did bring an extra QC6 hose kit, but only plan on using it as a spare set for bottom mix in case of a cut hose. . .
I'm clipping the two AL40 deco bottles, one on each side for better balance --and using the PADI DSAT mnemonic to keep track of them: "Right side Rich" for Oxygen bottle, and "Left side Lean" for Eanx50
Still breathing using separate conventional dedicated individual regs for the deco bottles and NOT plugging in via QC6 into distribution block.
Good to see ya posting here again Richard (rjack321) --you keep on telling me your opinion from over ten thousand miles across the Pacific what you think my reality & experience is here on Z-system & a mixed team diving the wrecks of Truk Lagoon; and your rhetoric of the economic worth of spending money on such a system . . .(Everything is fine I'm having fun regardless of your misgivings). . .
P.S> It's Thurs 22Nov here in Chuuk: An Early Happy Thanksgiving to Y'all!