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Thanks Heseltine, I have to wipe ice tea off the screen from reading your post. You can't be serious? Errol -----Original Message----- From: pH <heseltine@ea*.ne*> To: RLatulip@ao*.co* <RLatulip@ao*.co*> Cc: kirvine@sa*.ne* <kirvine@sa*.ne*>; cavers@ca*.co* <cavers@ca*.co*>; techdiver@aquanaut.com <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Date: Monday, August 03, 1998 7:11 PM Subject: Here's the point! >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 >> >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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