| Re: Maybe eCCR's really aren't the wave of the future for recreational divers?
You know I was just thinking this through - if you split the cells across multiple monitoring devices - I see more work....
1 - 2 lots of calibration to do
2 - 2 lots of equipment to view
3 - Double the chance of a failure that will abort your dive.
4 - More equipment connected to you.
and if one of the components fail then you should call the dive, so by having 2 sets of everything it does not give you any more redundancy and let you carry on the dive - I suppose you could dive on 2 cells but then the chances of them both failing low go up compared to 3 failing low and I dont think you should take that risk.
Though I suppose that it would alert you if you had been a plonker and completely screwed up the Calibration of a single device which you would not get with only one device. And with a standard handset and a Shearwater at least you could completely replace all the electronics on a multi day trip if needed - but it seems an awful lot of outlay for something that is unlikely to happen.
I also think whether the evodream HUD is classed as a primary depends on what you mean by Primary - for me Primary means it shows me the exact PPO2 of every cell.
Stuart |