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NorthWoodsDiver · 17th November 2008, 01:34

I am looking at buying an evo (and doing the training of course) but The biggest setback for me is scrubber size. I can see myself doing dives that are 3 or 4 hrs long (including deco of course) and the scrubber rating is only 3hrs. Now I know that number is directly related to CO2 not time and CO2 production will be different with every dive and every diver so I am just kinda looking for some numbers with approx times.

My dives primarily will be shorter as I live in minnesota where its cold 9 months out of the year and the bottom temp seldom exceeds 41 degrees F but there are times where I will be cave diving in mexico or wreck diving in florida or what ever where the water temps wont limit my dives but my scrubber will.

I also plan to do some deeper stuff (read below 200ft but no line has been drawn as to how much deeper) in both cold and warm water but obviously the cold will limit me so I dont plan to push scrubber life up here in the frigid north.

I am personally a fan of the vision setup which uses the Temp stick to monitor scrubber life span so thats partially why I settles on an AP unit over something with a larger canister. And since I wont be needing that large canister 90% of the time it would be wasted sorb anyway.

So I just want to find out kinda how long people get on average with there evo+ or equivalent volume of sorb.

17th November 2008, 01:34	#1 (permalink)
NorthWoodsDiver RBW Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Minnesota Posts: 70	Max time on Sorb? I am looking at buying an evo (and doing the training of course) but The biggest setback for me is scrubber size. I can see myself doing dives that are 3 or 4 hrs long (including deco of course) and the scrubber rating is only 3hrs. Now I know that number is directly related to CO2 not time and CO2 production will be different with every dive and every diver so I am just kinda looking for some numbers with approx times. My dives primarily will be shorter as I live in minnesota where its cold 9 months out of the year and the bottom temp seldom exceeds 41 degrees F but there are times where I will be cave diving in mexico or wreck diving in florida or what ever where the water temps wont limit my dives but my scrubber will. I also plan to do some deeper stuff (read below 200ft but no line has been drawn as to how much deeper) in both cold and warm water but obviously the cold will limit me so I dont plan to push scrubber life up here in the frigid north. I am personally a fan of the vision setup which uses the Temp stick to monitor scrubber life span so thats partially why I settles on an AP unit over something with a larger canister. And since I wont be needing that large canister 90% of the time it would be wasted sorb anyway. So I just want to find out kinda how long people get on average with there evo+ or equivalent volume of sorb.
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