UTD MX Series mCCR Rebreather Configuration - Part 3 of 3

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Comment by Nick Ambrose on August 26, 2010 at 5:39pm

Sergi.
The lungs kind of go over your shoulders, affixing to the harness with a velcro loop, and plastic buckles on top of the D-rings where the backup lights go.

Then they go down the back, and clip on the waist strap behind the SPG and behind the canister light/RB electronics.

So I would say quite a bit on the back really but away from the center of your back where the plate/wing go.

It's a very clean setup and they can easily be removed for rinsing etc

Comment by Sergi Perez on August 26, 2010 at 3:19pm

The back mounted counterlungs seems like onto the arm, not onto the soulder and back.... or is only for the video purpose?

Comment by Unified Team Diving on August 24, 2010 at 12:58pm

Greg

Yes, it is possible to have as many manifolds and bands as you wish on as many sets of doubles as you wish. What you will find is because you essentially have a "mixer" on your back, you will have a technical set (18/45), a recreational set (Air) and a trimix set (15/55) once you get a bunch of experience on the unit.

As far as manifolds, yes the manifold is extended and will fit a standard manifold as sold by Dive-rite or Halcyon or UTD. It will not for a face sealed manifold.

Hope that helps
Andrew

Andrew

Comment by Gregory King on August 23, 2010 at 11:29pm

Would it be possible to purchase multiple manifolds for use with different backgasses, so that we could span the entire range of recreational to technical depths? Also, how compatible is that manifold with different valves (ie Thermo, Halcyon, Dive-Rite, etc). It looks like the manifold extension has male fittings on both sides, was there an issue with using an extension that had a male and female fitting to make it more compatible with standard manifolds, thus reducing both production expenses and also cost to the end diver who wants more than one set of doubles for keeping multiple backgasses? I'm just curious.

Other than that, I'm really liking what I am seeing here and hopefully I can take one for a test drive one day, as it combines both the efficiency and versatility of a rebreather with the built-in safety of OC doubles, all without having to swim multiple bailout bottles for either deep technical diving or extended penetration wreck/cave diving like one would with a Meg, Optima, etc.

Peace,
Greg