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Randy: I did not mean to suggest that I have seen the same percentage of freezing problems in all brands of regulators, nor that they froze in the closed position. In fact, I have never made any kind of tally of regulator problems. It does seem that the higher performance regulators are the ones that are more likely to free flow. A freezing condition in the first stage usually results in a free flow not a lockup situation. In answer to your question about the location of my boat - I skipper "Enterprise", a 30 ton, 42 ft steel boat out of the Port of Waukegan, Illinois on Lake Mighigan. Enterprise is used exclusively as a diver support vessel for both recreational and commercial charters. From March through October we make morning and afternoon or all day ship wreck excursions every Saturday and Sunday, and Wednesday evening night dive trips . Commercial charters are only a small part of our business and they are always on weekdays. Hope this helps. Dive safely, Dale In a message dated 98-02-21 10:31:02 EST, sulteck@ic*.ne* writes: << >In a message dated 98-02-19 19:36:03 EST, Kent.Lind@no*.go* writes: > ><< I don't understand why you Great Lakes folks have such trouble with your SP > regs. Is there some quantum singularity hovering over the Great Lakes that > only affects Scubapro regs? (SNIP)>> > >I don't think there is a universal opinion that Scubapro Regulators are prone >to freezing in the Great Lakes. As I wrote before, I have never had my >Mk20/D400 with TIS freeze and I dive all year round in the Great Lakes. On my >charter boat Where are you running your boat? I have not noticed any propensity for SP regulators to freeze, >but I think that I have seen regulators of every brand there is freeze up at >one time or another. I have only ever seen one reg freeze up. It actualy shut off. It was a dacor reg out of the box. It was the dacor sevice tech for a local dive shop that was diving it. I don't think he even dives any more. I have also listened to proponents and detractors of >every brand swear that their chosen brand never freezes and that the other >brand is especially prone to the problem. On your boat all regs have the same % rate of freeflow. When I ran my boat I kept a runnig tailly of brand name failures( I didn't care to record the models). Sertain brand name stuck out like a sore thumb. >Just my $.02 > >Dive safely, >Dale >-- Randy Sullivan >> -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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