View Single Post
Old 9th June 2005, 10:48   #17 (permalink)
montyg
Monty Guest
 
montyg's Avatar

Current Rebreather/s:
Home Build

Other Rebreather/s:
Home Build
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Posts: 242
montyg is a glorious beacon of light montyg is a glorious beacon of light montyg is a glorious beacon of light montyg is a glorious beacon of light montyg is a glorious beacon of light montyg is a glorious beacon of light montyg is a glorious beacon of light montyg is a glorious beacon of light montyg is a glorious beacon of light montyg is a glorious beacon of light montyg is a glorious beacon of light
Send a message via MSN to montyg Send a message via Yahoo to montyg Send a message via Skype™ to montyg
Quote: (Originally Posted by lizardland)
The biggest weakness I found with it (the reason I did not buy one) was the size of the counterlung. I Stuart
Please excuse all the third hand "someone said so" below but I don't have first hand experience here and I am trying to find out ...

I am very curious about work of breathing on this unit since the counterlung is below the scrubber and thus quite low on the back. From what I've been told about the RB80 ( and I believe the EDO is very similar ) is that in a head down position people sometimes have to use the OC/CC DSV because WOB is very hard.

I've also read some allegations that it works fine for scootering with a 'heads up' attitude because the bellows are located favourably in relation to the lung centroid in that attitude.

There's some talk about the elasticity of the counterlung being teaked in a way that eases WOB ?

It would be much apprecaited if anybody can disspell some roumors here and seperate the facts and fiction.

rgds
monty
(Offline)
 
Reply With Quote