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silent running · 19th March 2008, 06:43

If you want your dive comp to tell you that you've forgot to turn on the dil or O2 valve, you could also rig up the valves to a magnetic contact that is completed when the valve is opened and which is connected to the same wireless transmitter that gives you tank pressure. Then it's a simple on/off switch, not a numeric PSI/BAR number that has to be sensed and validated as "low" and which would add a step of computing power/time just to let you know that you forgot to open your valves. It could be the first thing which the computer validates, before tank pressure.

Oh and one small detail(!)-make sure you can easily reach the valves, so that if you "get the message" that you jumped in with the valves off, you can open them in a split second...

19th March 2008, 06:43	#12 (permalink)
silent running Mature mouth breather Current Rebreather/s: Prism Topaz Other Rebreather/s: Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: U.S.A. Brooklyn, New York Posts: 1,810	Re: Would an integrated O2 tank pressure monitor be safer? If you want your dive comp to tell you that you've forgot to turn on the dil or O2 valve, you could also rig up the valves to a magnetic contact that is completed when the valve is opened and which is connected to the same wireless transmitter that gives you tank pressure. Then it's a simple on/off switch, not a numeric PSI/BAR number that has to be sensed and validated as "low" and which would add a step of computing power/time just to let you know that you forgot to open your valves. It could be the first thing which the computer validates, before tank pressure. Oh and one small detail(!)-make sure you can easily reach the valves, so that if you "get the message" that you jumped in with the valves off, you can open them in a split second... Last edited by silent running : 19th March 2008 at 06:48.
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