Welcome to the board... We need more Prism divers up here posting. It seems there is not enough of us.
Just started diving my unit, the wife and I, I mean and have made some mod's to allow these units to be dove in cold water and also distrubute the weight a bit better. Who ever said these units were light in weight lied!!!!!!! They're about the weight of a small set of twins
But the bottom time vs the gas used is much goodder then OC.
So far I've added an air block that I managed to get from a Mares HUB this has allow me to flip out the Air2 and go with a normal inflator and put the bailout on a bungie neckles under the chin. Leaving one port pluged for future use. This is mounted to the plate below the bucket area.
Keeping the plastic plate, I've duplicated the same in 1/8 SS ( less the bucket cradle) which gets bolted directly to plastic plate via the bold holes of the head, where the BC attaches (wife uses the stock BC) and where the added 6lb "P" weights to the underside of the tanks get bolted. (they sit between the plate and my back, one on each side.) This adds about 20lbs to the unit coupled with the drysuit bracket that is detachable on the bottom (another 5lbs) for a total of about 25 lbs. Yes we need that much with the dry suit and underwear we wear up here in 40ish water. On here I run a 13cuft bottle which I drive my wing ( a Oxycheq KISS wing for now, but the jury is still out on it.
) I've taken my OC BP and had it modified so that its a little flatter on the unit and the hoses run up behind it just perfect.
The plastic pressure guages have been replaced with brass ones. (I got tired of diving with little hard-ons everytime I turn on the gas) and these sit runing down the outside of the CL's just perfect.
Bailout is caried in somewhat a similiar fassion as to the way sidemount is done. Bottom of bottle is attached down in the area of the drysuit bracket while the neck of the tank is held by a bungie I have on the nipple rings of the harness. I've tried the under the CL "D-ring" but didn't like them.
As I've only got 20hrs on the unit, my bouyancy and trim still leave allot to be desired (coming from OC trimix and cave trained) but I'm getting there. At least I don't hit the silty bottom too hard and can manage to pick up the little cray fish we have without pushing them into the mud. (they really don't like that) But I figure if I can pick these little critters up and play with them without stirring up the bottom then I'm doing pretty good, especially if this is being done in 20' feet of water where the gas shift is the greatest.
Did another 2 hr dive last night (flew manual for 95% of the dive) and have some minor adjustments to make to get my trim so I'm not swiming feet up and looking at the mud all the time
But over all, we're getting the hang of it.
Anyway, that's it for now.
Dave