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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 16:27:25 -0700
To: techdiver@terra.net
From: bmk@ds*.bc*.ca* (Barrie Kovish)
Subject: Re:Rebreathers - Phinally, Physiology!
Cc: heseltin@hs*.us*.ed*

Peter wrote:

>The solenoids that add gas can *only* fail in the closed position.

2 questions:

1.  Is there more than one solenoid in a single breather?

2.  Why can it only fail open?

On a slightly different subject we took 1 measurement of swimming VO2max 
on our semiclosed circuit constant mass flow rebreather at 2 ata. Result
was 2 lpm.

Barrie

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