scrubber life

ClarkKent

Hi guys

am recently new to my inspo (approx 20hrs).

last weekend i had a scruuber warning on my unit. i was at 22 m when the alarm and hud showed me there was a problem and the handset read low scxrubber warning. i stayed on the loop, as the temp stick still show apprrox a 10 mm to use area. i managed to surfacxe fine, with no probs!

should i have bailed out?

the main concern that i have is that when i anaylised my dives for that scrubber life it only tallied up to 147mins. i can add perhaps a further 30 mins on prebreathing and surface swim but am concerned at the length of time on the scrubber. i did nothing different with my packing of the scrubber. my buddy suggests that i may have over packed the scrubber, is this a likely cause. i seem toi have done nothing different

your help and advice would be received gratefully

cheers

Clark

Depth-junkie

147min plus 30min for pre-breath and surface swims, Well to me that is nearly 3 hrs of use.

As AP say after 140mins of use be shallower than 20m!!! I have a temp stick on my vision inspo and think its a great way of seeing how the scrubber bed is working but not for extendind scrubber life at depth.

i presume the 177mins of use was not all on the same day, so could the fact that the sorb had been used before dryed out then re-used again some time later have anything to do with it.

ATB
Gareth

P.S i personly would not be swiming about in 22m on a scrubber with nearly 3hrs on it after multi-days of use. A deco hang at 6m on a fresh scrubber that day on a 3hr trimix dive is different, as the scrubber is not working hard in the shalows. And the sorb has not dryed out in between days.

nigelh

Yes. Even if just for a few breaths to see if anything felt different. CO2 messes with your head so don't muck with it. Over packing is quite hard. You can pat-pat-tighten forever and it's still OK. Underpacking is the bitch. I had a breakthrough from that at about two and a half hours. Totally my fault.

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nigelh