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First off, some additional information is needed. What material is your backplate made out of? If it is aluminum, hten it is only about a pound negative while a SS backplate is about 6 pounds negative. What material is your suit made of? Shell suits with air from undergarments, etc. are about 20 pounds positive while a neoprene drysuit is about 30. The standard V weights are either 8 or 11 pounds, but they are designed to sit between doubles and not on a single tank adapter. Scott from this list does make a weighted single tank adapter ( scottk@hc*.co* ) which can help out there. Steel tanks stay negative or neutral from full to empty while aluminum goes from neutral to about 4 pounds positive. There are also other options like keel weights which can be strapped on your tank to keep the trim level. Don -----Original Message----- From: Paul Braunbehrens [mailto:Bakalite@ba*.co*] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 11:52 AM To: techdiver@aquanaut.com Subject: Weights OK, I went through tons of archives last night, trying to get to the bottom of this. First, let me tell you my setup. I'm diving a backplate and wings, with a drysuit, and (for now) a single tank and a pony bottle. Leaving enough air in my suit so I can still move and do a safety stop at the end of a dive, I need 17 pounds on my belt (I dive in cold water). Right now this weight is on my weight belt, which is ok but not ideal. Perusing the archives, it seems the consensus is to make a V weight for at least some of this. Let's say it will weigh about 9 Pounds. This still leaves 8 pounds. I could then either leave that on my weight belt, or I could put it in the Halcyon weight pouches. I assume that when I go to doubles I won't need most of it anymore? Also, DiveRite sells a "trim weight" that will fit between the bolts on the backplate. I was thinking of this as an option. Also, I read a lot of posts saying the canister light is 6 pounds negative (or thereabouts). Mine is 1.5 pounds negative, which means I have to account for that weight somewhere. One post I read which made a lot of sense, said that you should have about 5 or 6 pounds of ditchable weight (if any). When you ditch your weight you don't want to become so positive as to end up in lunar orbit. I would like to get as close to hogarthian as possible before moving to doubles, so any help is appreciated. I'm even moving my canister back on my harness (I had it upside down and attached to the backplate, but I find that it has a tendency to sit on the wiring connection...not good). Cheers, -- Paul Braunbehrens mailto:Bakalite@ba*.co* http://www.daw-mac.com Mailing list for digital audio on the mac -- 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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