Quote: (Originally Posted by
caveseeker7)
Copycat is an easy word to throw around in the Rebreather world, IMHO there hasn't been much original thinking. The center stack scrubber with electronics contained on top, situated between tanks has been done for a while ... the Electrolung comes to mind, about the same time as the CCR1000, 40 years ago! Look at an UT240, and it looks a lot like some current units, a dozend or so years ago.
Don't foget about the early shadow packs.. as to the tank layout and mounting.. plus another current rigs scrubber is virtually the same...
The way the megs scrubber plugs into its head is the same as was done in the ut-240 many years prior.. the only difference is that the ut-240 isolated the cartridge so that there was an extra level of insulation to keep the scrubber warm but did not allow for a radial..