Quote: (Originally Posted by
rdmmdr)
...controllers are just like a regulator if it fails you are done with it this dive...
gill you said that you where disappointed that the inspro would not allow you dive the with a broken solenoid. my question is why would you want to risk your wifes life with a piece of broken equipment to save a dive. you would let her enter the water with a free flowing regulator, no. so why would you allow her to dive with a broken controller. by the way if you could convice my ex to dive with you go for it. as long as i am out of the country.
rick
Rick, let me be clear here. I do not condone diving broken gear in which you can not verify that it can do what you are expecting it to do. If it fails during a dive you "abort and sort on the surface". that's my matto. The Vision/Evo runs you through a start up check list, which actually I think is a really good thing as it verifies that it's circuits are working properly and you are there to watch over to be sure you agree. If there is a fault in the solenoid coil in particular (which is what happenned to us at the beginning of our big annual trips two years in a row) I do think it would be worth allowing the diver to put the unit in manual mode and go through the test again, seeing if cell callibration by manual injection of O2 can be attained. It certainly wasn't a matter of being cheap and i'm not sure where you got that from. But this is a bit moot, because the better solution would have been to add a shearwater or URM or rEvo as a back up that could be used as a primary for flying manually, leaving the vision off. This is where I was headed but after 8 days of diving OC while my wife dove my unit, we were just both too pissed to get passed it... it was time for a change and we both new that.