Best position is inverted, on the left side of your tanks.  Reason
being that you can reach around it to get at something, or reach around
your light canister on the right side, but not both.    The bottle
should be as far down as possible so as to be in the slip stream
created by the back tanks and not create any additional drag.  I use
the Halcyon pony straps, but there are many different ways to attach
the bottle.  Whatever you use, make sure it is something that you can
remove yourself underwater.  Inflator
hose comes up underneath the waist strap to suit inflator.  Argon first
stage needs an overpressure valve, to avoid a blowup in the event of
first stage failure.  Also, the intermediate pressure should be lowered
to about 90 psi or so - just enough to keep up with your fastest
(likely) descent.  Pressure
gauge on the argon cylinder is unnecessary.

-Sean


On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:27:12 +0800, Ranjit Chagar wrote:

>Morning all,
>
>To take this subject off to one side for a moment, can anyone tell me 
>the best way to rig argon to a drysuit. My main question is where does 
>the argon cylinder go? Also, would you have a pressure gauge on the 
>cylinder?
>
>Thanks in advance for your help, ranjit.
>
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