Tetradon Wing

Chris

I need a larger wing for the Meg, 34lb is struggling in fresh water.
Is anyone diving the Tetradon yet ?

Thoughts and comments if you are.

Cheers
Chriso

Ben Heath

What? You mean Zeagle don't have the perfect wing for all applications!

scubagrunt

Hi chris,
i have one and like it. i find it dumps quick, and it is pretty much out of the way by design. besides it has the meg logo and looks cool, what else is there?
mel

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Chris

[quote]=DeepBlueInnovation;188664]What? You mean Zeagle don't have the perfect wing for all applications!

Gday Ben
No

Cheers
Chriso

Rob Dobson

I've tried one and didn't get on with it. The bungee serves no purpose, the inflator seems to be in the wrong place as does the kidney dump. I got a DSS Rebreather-40 instead and I'm very happy with it (but with a 13" corrugated hose instead of the standard 19").

Dive Africa

Hi

Got one and have done about 30 dives with it and love it. Trim with the meg is easy as pie. Quite well made but it does have some bobs and bits that may be redundant, the one I like is a mounting point that fits the armidillo butt plate.

The bungies at the current tension is propably redundant but you could either remove (if you are dir inclined) them or tighten them in some of the spots to perfect that trim.

It is donut shaped wing: so easy to get lots of gas at the back end for a slightly heads down position. The only one problem that I have experienced is that the wing is longer than the meg canister: so bottom of donut sticks past the bottom of the meg. (You will have this problem with all donut wings)

Although the bladder is made from some tough material I managed to pinch a hole (after some abuse trowing it on to boats and dragging the machine over rocks into a cave) in the bottom. This was easily resolved with a car inner tube patch and some aquaseal. I take a little more care now and have had no additional problems.

It has 50lb of lift so should be adequate for most applications (I am not convinced however that it would be able to carry 5 or 6 80's though) Did some diving yesterday with 3 x 40's and a 80 in fresh water and had no problem.

In fresh water I don't have to use any counterlung weights (I am slightly overweighted as this allow me to put a little extra gas in the wing to get the butt-lift) and in the ocean 500g on each side. Will be doing some 60m to 80m's this coming weekend in the ocean and would probably dump them as well.

Both the bottom and top dump valve pull cords are at the bottom of the wing, the one on the left and the other on the right, this one has a protected cord that runs from the top dump valve to the bottom. I frowned over this a little, but once in the water the placement was instinctive and easy to use.

I thought it a easy well designed wing to use I have even started to use it with my custom side mount system and it is a blast.

Cheers

Dries

alyafi

Hi Rob Dobson,

You say the bungee serves no purpose. Dive Africa says the bungee can be used to manage the trim at different places in the wing.

I am planning on getting a Meg and am trying to work out the best wing for it. Can you please elaborate on the problem with the bungees.

Thanks people

Rob Dobson

My GF owned one and said that it served no purpose, my Meg instructor who is an ISC rep said that they serve no purpose, Meg divers that I know who own them say that they serve no purpose. I have never tried using it to adjust trim so I cannot confirm or deny that it works from first hand experience.

I personally had difficulty dumping gas from it when I tried but that might have just been me.

alyafi

Thank you for the reply, that info is helpful.

Dive Africa

Hi

Without trying to put words in Rob's mouth and without getting into a debate if you should have bungies at all - the only way I can try and interpret the statement to say that the bungies serves no purpose at all is that the way in which the wing is received from the factory, the bungies are at their longest, i.e without adjusting the bungies (making them shorter) they fulfill no retraction function (as they are to long).

So if you choose to dive the wing without shortning the bungies, you may as well remove them. Even without the bungies or without shortning them the wing is still top-notch and has very good trim with the meg.

To get full utilisation of the bungie retraction function I am considering removing the bungies and replacing them with the OMS Elastomeric Retraction bands which have a lot more stretch.

Cheers Dries