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William: Your choice of regulators and cutting tools depends to some extent on your environment. Many wreck divers carry both shears and a knife and your choice of regulators is somewhat more limited if you are diving in seriously cold water. The rest of the stuff is pretty standard and you can find the answers on the GUE site and other gear rigging sites. On the 200 BAR vs 300 BAR issue. The only difference is the length of the threads. As far as regulators go, all the DIN tube conversion kits I've ever seen are 300 BAR so if you convert your regulators over to DIN they will amost certainly be 300 BAR fittings. In fact, does anyone know of any regulators on the market that are sold with 200 BAR fittings? I don't. However you can use your 300 BAR regulator on either 200 BAR or 300 BAR tank valves. The only difference is that if you screw a 300 BAR regulator into a 200 BAR tank valve you will have some exposed threads because it will not be screwed all the way in. Functionally this is fine and it works, it just looks a little strange to have threads exposed. I prefer the 300 BAR tank valves just because it looks cleaner and it can't hurt to have the regulator screwed that much deeper into the tank valve. The one advantage to 200 BAR DIN tank valves is that most come with a Yoke insert which is a little plug you can screw into the tank valve to convert it to Yoke. This is an advantage if you want to use both DIN and yoke regulators on the manifold because you can convert back and forth using an allen wrench. However, if you dedicated to DIN then there is no advantage. NOTE: you cannot convert a 300 BAR DIN valve to Yoke use because the threads are too deep. Even if you had a plug insert you cannot get a regulator yoke over the top of a 300 BAR DIN valve because it is too wide. So 300 BAR DIN valves can only be used with 300 BAR DIN regulators. My opinion? If you're going to convert all your regulators to DIN and you are the only one who is going to use your gear then there is no reason to use anything but 300 BAR DIN valves on your tanks. The only time I would consider using 200 BAR tank fittings would be if I was setting up rental equipment for a shop and wanted it to be usable by the greatest number of divers. Kent Lind Juneau, Alaska > have been diving with lots of yoke tank vavles.Was thinkning of getting a > DIN valve is2 stage with an A adaptor but I'm confused over the issue of > 200 bar and 300 bar.Can i just get the 300 bar and settle all the > confusion > ? > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > -- > 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'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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