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Ray - 

This really isn't about electronics. You can believe they will kill you and
I can believe that they usually will not. Forget the electronics for a
moment - I can fly my machine manually. So now, tell me you don't believe
in the Geo Tooth Fairy who will save you from deco with a handful of pills
and a stiff workout. I think/know/math/reason that a higher pO2 short of
toxicity is a better choice for deco. It's that simple.

pH


At 05:27 PM 8/3/98 -0400, RLatulip@ao*.co* wrote:
>In a message dated 8/3/98, 4:41:30 PM, heseltine@ea*.ne* writes:
>
><<Ray - This is hogwash and you know it! Sooner or later we will ALL die
and
>so will our machinery. Debating the relative merits of MTBF of your air
>computer (whose battery you probably didn't check before the dive), an
>SC-RB and OC is not the point. They ALL fail, occasionally. But, you are
>changing the subject.
>>>
>
>Give me a %^$# break all failures had nothing to do with the battery
rather it
>started telling me I had twice the gas I had when I started and for your
>information it was not an air computer and it was supposed to monitor my
>breathing rate as well which it did like shit. The point is not that it is a
>computer but that it is a device that contains electronics you moron. And
>secondly if they all fail occasionally all the better to not be depending on
>them to maintain your PO2.  I would rather die old and dreaming about the
>dives I used to do than young and leaving behind a widow.  
>
>Electronics in a circuit are only as good as the components the vendor sends
>you and if you think that their quality control is %100 all the time then you
>are living in a fantasy world.  Did you sit there and run an oscilloscope on
>every component to ensure that it met the specifications that it was
supposed.
>
>Having tested power supplies for I.B.M. for several years and having had to
>analyze the fallout I still will not bet my life on an electronic circuit.
>
>>>>The fundamental issue, which Geo refuses to address with any logic or
>scientific rationale, is why would you believe a guy that tells you that
>swallowing a few vitamin pills and doing works outs 'til you have
>buns-o'-steel makes you invulnerable to the basic laws of gasses and
>physiology?<<<
>
>No the fundamental issue is who will be the next to die on an electronic
>rebreather!
>
>Ray LaTulippe
> 
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