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 RMQN56A@pr*.co* (MR KEVIN A ROTTNER) wrote:-

> ... Lamda (Automotive Exhaust Gas) Sensors to 300+ F to work right, why not
> just mount a small butane torch right on your EAN cylinder ...

I.e., as I thought from the start of this thread, the sort of crude industrial
O2 sensor that works OK up some car's dirty gases-monoxide-phew!-pipe, isn't
the best for in breathing sets. As a point of interest, when I had a one-day
Prism rebreather course, I was told that scuba ppO2 sensors (at least the sort
that Peter Readey was using) are little baby fuel-cell batteries that work at
a rate in proportion to the amount of O2 available to them.

> Also, this would serve another purpose. Just think of all the extra room you
> would get on a boat as everyone saw your rig (complete with butane torch)
> and slowly moved away.

  Even more so if you had plutonium diving weights as Olly.Kierse@an*.co*
suggested recently! I read that plutonium has good mechanical properties, much
better than uranium: why stick to weights only? With a cylinder made of it, in
very cold water in a lot of floaty padding you wouldn't need much separate
weight, <and> you'd get PLENTY room to kit up, and in the bar afterwards!

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