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AP Diving Offers Exciting New Features

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AP Diving is showing off some new bling at the NEC Diving Show in Birmingham. They’ve aggressively jumped into the market with a bright new heads up display at a very reasonable price. The unit has been fully vetted with CE Approval setting a high bar for other manufacturers to follow. The unit can be retrofitted to existing rebreathers as an upgrade or ordered on new ones.  The following features are posted in their press release today: Vivid OLED colour display – with excellent readability even in very poor viz Conditional colouring indicates status changes – Green = good, Yellow = info…

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Smither’s Code

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Always Know Your PO2 Smithers Code is a system of blinking lights that communicate PO2 information to a diver in the Heads Up Display (HUD). The “PPO2 Mode” as some rebreather systems call it, allows the diver and buddy to view actual PO2 at all times. Three color-states are used to indicate actual values of each individual sensor. If PO2 is 1.0, an LED will blink orange. At 1.1 an LED blinks green. At .9, an LED blinks red. The value for each sensor is displayed in succession followed by an extended pause. The lower the PO2, the more red…

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