Noob question: Small doubles or triples?

[yohanson]

Multiple cylinder configurations are setup to provide redundancy, they have nothing to do with the tech crap or deco or whatever else the internet hero's want to class them as.
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With the cylinder selection available to us today, triple configurations just do not make much sense due to the extra failure points they bring with them; I would much rather dive twinned up lp 45's as opposed to triple 30's.
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Totally agree with the triple configurations...you're old enough to remember the triple 2 barrel carburetor set ups of the 60s I'm sure (you ought to, you're older than I am) They became obsolete due to the larger 4 barrel carburetors that became available and the fact that it was damn near impossible to tune all three correctly as well as the more points of failure of the "six pack".



I suggest an HP80 or HP100 with a luxfer 30 stage bottle as a back up.

[Papa Bear]

Okay, my two cents! Bama is right on! We cave divers are like that, caves seem to bring out the best in divers! I would look at a LOW PRESSURE 98 or 105 single tank! LP is better for Video for one simple reason, you can fill it on a boat or with your portable compressor! If you over fill it you will get a lot more air! They trim well with the right BCD and you just take off an equal amount of wight from your belt. If you fill your HP tank to 90% on say an 80 then you have 72, if you over fill your LP by 10% you have 88Cft. So if you over fill your 105 by 10%, witch most boats can do, then you have 116cft!

One more thing you said you were going to do video on Nitrox with doubles. You have to define your mission better. Deep for a long time? So what do you want to do? Video Freedivers? Define your mission first then choose the tools and training!

[hbh2oguard]

papa I fully agree you gave me that advice the middle of last year and I got a lp95. It might be a hog but it holds TONS and TONS of air especially filled to 2800-3k

[Papa Bear]

papa I fully agree you gave me that advice the middle of last year and I got a lp95. It might be a hog but it holds TONS and TONS of air especially filled to 2800-3k

Don't you just love that!???? You can concentrate on diving and stop worrying about your air! And you need less wight on your belt, and safety stops are better!

[BamaCaveDiver]

I just love my compact 120's (lp 85's filled to 4K)

[hbh2oguard]

I do love it, but I don't know if I'd pump it up to 4k and I think I dropped 9lbs from an Al80.