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Anthony,
You are describing the final product which will be available at you
local tech stroke shop near you! The original design used another
method to overcome the power problem. Instead of beaming the exhaust
gas to the scrubber via satellite power it used 3 HP steel 120's which
you carried on your back. The exhaust was vented into these holding
tanks. Using a 36 D-Cell alkaline battery pack strapped to the tanks
the exhaust was sent back to the surface. Because of low power,
bandwidth was limited for the exhaust transmission, hence the need for
the massive holding tanks. Because of the weight of the batteries and
HP steels there was no need for a weight belt but you did have to use a
large bladder BC. Rumor had it that they contacted OMS to develop a
special "quad wing" version. Because of low demand this version never
got put into production and was later replaced by the version you
described. Since the satellite power system seems to be working so well
I hear that some of the computer manufacturers are going to use this as
a power method. This eliminates the need to ever change batteries in
computers, lighting systems may be next to use this revolutionary power
system.
Safe diving,
Art.
art.paltz@r2*.co*
Last Dive 10/31/97, Ora Verde, Grand Cayman, 50ft/50 min bottom time, 88
degrees F, 21% bottom mix
-- O.K. so I was on my honeymoon and had a weenie DM following
me. Had 1800 PSI left in my 72 cube tank!!
-- Couldn't wait to get back to the cold waters of the North
East!!
-----Original Message-----
From: adb@on*.ca*
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 1997 9:08 PM
To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: Re: new hoseless regulator
Kevin Connell <kevin@nw*.co*> writes:
> When's the fully closed unit coming out?
> Will it have 2 seperate channels for dilutant and o2?
> Is there enough bandwidth on the transmitters to accomidate
two mixes?
> What about OC bailout on the same frequency?
You're forgetting that the CC version needs another channel to
transmit
your exhalations back to the scrubber. Adding the power to run
that
transmitter to the mouthpiece unit would have made it much too
big and
bulky, but the engineers have come up with a brilliant space-age
solution
to that problem. Following some of the speculative research for
solar
power satellites beaming power back to earth, they've perfected
a
practical unit that beams power via invisible microwaves from
the
back-mounted power unit to a power receiver on the mouthpiece
unit.
Divers will experience a warm tingling feeling in the back of
the neck,
but are advised not to worry. This even has the benefit that
you can
tell that your 'breather is working without having to keep
looking at
any easily-forgotten display units.
--
Anthony DeBoer <adb@on*.ca*>
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