Quote: (Originally Posted by
Jimmer)
So I've heard all the horror stories from OC people, about how it takes a million hours to prepare your rebreather, and another 4 months to tear it down to clean it (a minor exageration, but you get the point). Obviously there is more setup and maintenance time than with OC, but just how much are we typically talking here?
Thanks,
Jim
Hi,
It's not as bad as the doomsayers would have it. I'm pretty inexperienced and therefore haven't prepped my unit that much, but I'd say (for my Vision) it works out roughly as follows:
- A few days before I'm due to go diving, I set the unit up, run positive and negative checks and do a calibration. That means that a) the unit is pretty much ready to go and b) I know that it is working. That all takes about 60 minutes, about 50% of which is spent setting up and/or packing other gear while the pos and neg tests 'run'
- Before each dive, it probably takes about 5-10 minutes longer to get kitted up and ready to go because of the calibration (if needed) and system checks. That's easily balanced by not needing to get as man fills
- Each evening (or every second evening depending on dive time), about 15-20 minutes to change the scrubber and take the head off to dry
That's pretty much it. Everything else is just as for OC, in my experience.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,