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Franck wrote >I have tried to find pressure guages calibrated in Bar here in the States, but >to no avail -- and I was even told that Europe also used PSI for scuba >contents use. No way ! Here in France we use pressure gauges exclusively in bar and cylinders volume in liter (water volume) >Bar is a much more logical choice for a contents guage, but given the crazy >looks I get sometimes, I wonder if other people realize this. With a guage >calibrated in Bar, conversion from guage reading to time reamining is easily >done in your head, with no look-up tables, etc -- just one simple constant >to remember. So go for metrics units rather than using boring imperial units where feets, psi, etc require conversion factors everywhere ;-) Frederic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frederic BADIER Dowell Schlumberger Fluid Monitoring Equipment Section Manager Schlumberger Riboud Product Centre 26 rue de la cavée (BP 202); 92142 Clamart Cedex, France Tel : (33) 1 45 37 20 00 Switchboard Tel : (33) 1 45 37 20 41 Direct Line Fax : (33) 1 45 37 25 13 Sinet : badier@cl*.do*.sl*.co* (or DSA::BADIER) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --
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