| The mandatory factory service intervalls may be a pita and expensive (at least for the Cis I hear), but that was one elaborate piece of equipment ... 3 setpoint controllers, dual depth sensors, dual audio alarms, four displays and five batteries ... that's a lot of bits and pieces that have to work together to keep you alive and well.
Plus some other bits like the gas management block that also needs maintainance from what I understand. The mandatory intervalls and related lockout afaik were added after production started. I remember Martin Schärr in CH selling two MK-5p and posting that his didn't have that mandatory service lockout.
The Ouroboros is a bit less elaborate, but shares some of the electronic and mechanical features of the Cis. Like pressure transducers for the digital display integration of gas contents (on the Cis two where standard and two more for additional backgas were optional). I for one have no idea what kind of adjustments those things may or may not need.
Anyway, it's a new rig, and if they want to get the units back into the factory for a thorough checkup after 200 hrs that's probably not a bad idea. It's life support equipment, remember. Nobody thinks twice about something as simple as a tank having to get viz (annually in the US) and hydro (every 5 years) or regs needing annual rebuilds.
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