It isn't if you go by electronic features as Bazza did.
Like it or not, the Meg has a setpoint controller and an independent, separate pO2 monitor.
The CCR1000 had that back in '69 ... better even, the 2ndary didn't need a power supply.
Oh yes, the HUD ... the MK16 had that back in the 80s ... that's 1st gen.
I doubt the current generation Hammerhead electronics are any less reliable than the current generation APECS electronics. They've been used for years to replace 1st gen electronics on the MK series, Inspirations etc.
The Hammerhead has the same, great modular design, as do many other rebreathers that have a stack in the center and tanks attached to it.
Axial and radial, in two sizes, right?
Who needs a choice of axial or radial? We already know how well radials perform since Steam Machines released their PRISM scrubbers and outperformed axials of the same size.
The Hammerhead offers two sizes radial, too. The larger one, we already know, last longer than the Meg's, no matter how Leon words it ... which seems to be the point of the large scrubber.
On the smaller scrubbers, we don't know either Mini Meg's or Hobo's duration yet because neither test results have been published.
That has been said about the Hammerhead CCR, too.
Why? The Hammerhead offers deco on both primary and secondary display, so you have the data calculated by the actual loop pO2, without any extra gear to haul around.
Plus the option to add another cell for yet another deco computer for added redundancy, choice of o-t-s or rear-mounted counterlungs, choice of HUD display modes, choice of gas injection modes, etc.
It got that, too, as well as a BOV.
While I am very aware of all the Hammerheads features and copycat meg style, I am interested to know if you have owned and dived either and the above post is not based on marketing spec sheets,
I would also be interested to here from people with say over 100hrs on the hammerhead CCR without any electronic issues, as I have read quite a few post about issues on the HH electronic and not to many about Apecs problems
When I brought my first vision it was full of bugs Im now on my fourth electronic.
I have over 700 hrs on my meg and its only been to the factory once in 3 years for software upgrade, thats good going
I think I was more upset last night when I wrote the post that Bazza had categorized the MEG with a classic inspiration now based on bells and whistles and built in deco it may be true but absolutely not on the whole product, I currently own a few of these units and the best is bar far my Apecs meg.