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Comparing your system to a spare air does not demonstrate a reasonable grasp of reality on your part, at least not on this list. Now on rec.scuba, you would be a God. Jim Sender: Jan M. Troup Date: 5/4/98 10:13 AM >Dear Techdiver group, > >I appreciate you comment ( as critical as they may be). Not every product is >for every person. Please don't miss the point, the X-tra system is a pony >bottle with a combination >regualtor/valve. The transfer hose, if you choose to use it, adds only one >hose and >is looped between the tank and the divers BC. This hose is the same as the >SPG hose and both have a metered air loss rate of about 6 cu ft/min or less >in many cases. All dive equipment is subject to failure, the big question >is what happens when it does fail. Aside from the advantages of the X-tra >system or other pony system (which seems to be lost in the forum >discussion) the worse case is a cylinder o-ring failure on the X-tra system >which would cause about a 250 psi(6 cu ft.)/min. air loss from the divers >main cylinder. Divers, of whatever nature, have to be prepared for such >emergencies. This is the same as a safe second free flow situation which >they better be able to handle in the several minutes they have available. > >The X-tra system offers additional ways to catch backup system problems not >complacency. The product hopes to address the situation, both by its size >and configuration, where the diver has a small pony in his pocket that he >filled on day one of a week trip and on day two it leaked down without him >knowing. Like it or not this happens. The worse situation, is a backup >systems that fails without the divers knowledge. By the time it is >discovered he is dead. > >For the hose counters, the safe second reg most recreational divers carry >is now also the reg for the backup system and even the power inflator. > >Jan Troup, President >Aquavit, Inc. > >aquavit@aq*.co* > > > > > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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