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Old 4th October 2006, 07:26   #7 (permalink)
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Re: Bad design of boris'sloop?

If you get water into an Inspiration exhale CL for example it too will migrate to the base of the scrubber and eventually into the sofnolime. In that case there is a semi hydrophobic membrane that keeps a portion of the water out, though the scrim's primary function is to stop the sofnolime falling through the spider. There is no option for that particular diver other than to expel water by lying on his stomach and massage water out via the OP valve which happens also to be on the exhale side (this process is not easy).

In the case of the Ouroborus water that collects in the exhale CL is met by a far more effective hydrohobic membrane (there is an issue of water by passing this membrane but I understand that this is being resolved), expelling water requires to diver to go into a +/- vertical position and over pressurising the loop, gravity does the rest. As DrMike said the OPV needs to be 'bettered'.

If you are for an OPV on the inhale side then it would be best to give us a few pro's but I think you will be hard pressed.

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