Quote: (Originally Posted by
chunter)
Yeah, but so what? If you can retrofit a Mark 15 into a 15.5, there's no reason you couldn't make an awesome rebreather from another is there? Does anyone know how the dome attaches?
From what I've heard (and I'll soon find out for myself) the Colkan secondary display that is on this unit is the $hit (in a good way).
from what I gathered from the seminar at Oztec and my own incredible observation skills
the unit is made from the "truckloads" (their word, not mine) of carleton parts that the manufacturer has laying about as well as some locally manufactured parts. The unit is converted from a SCBA used by firefighters with an additional cylinder G-snapped on the bottom. (should make it rather butt heavy and top light) The calibration of the PO2 secondary has to be done by removing a water tight screw cap from the back and pushing a button when you believe the loop is 98% O2. one part I didnt like was that you have to decide prior to the dive, whether you want a backlight on during the dive and that is selected using the same button under thecap.
uses K1d cells, has two setpoints, low and high that have to be selected prior to the dive. the HUD uses Green=Good, Red=bad logic, which of course isnt logical, considering some other discussions here on Rebreather World about good alarms vs bad alarms.
I did really like the gas lines they were using, SS braid, exceptionally flexible and some smaller kevlar wrapped lines for LP. all with well over 200bar burst pressure (even the LP liines) they claim that thier kiss valve will take the full 200 bar if the reg seat fails, so that is pretty cool. course you will have a big suprise if you hit the valve at say...90 meters, think I would still fit up a OPV on the reg. They mentioned that their production electronics package was going to be ANALOG, not digital.
They are making it in 4 versions, one being a Kiss style and another fully electronic, but I dont remember the other two versions, maybe one an SCR...?
weight estimated at 20 kilos. the SCBA unit was the biopack 240, if I remember my facts correctly, the rest of the above I had notes on.