dealing with unused tanks

Jacco van Koll jacco.van.koll at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 00:20:46 PST 2012


Dirk,

I would like you to remember that there are 1st stages, who 'leak'  air/gas
on purpose. The longer the dive is, the more air/gas leaked away. So, in
certain circumstances, this could lead to measurable differences in
pressure, letting software think that the tank is used.

Regards,

Jacco van Koll


On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Jef Driesen <jefdriesen at telenet.be> wrote:

> On 27-12-12 23:28, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>
>> Here is something that I noticed with several of the newer dive computers:
>>
>> libdivecomputer reports all of the tanks that are setup, even those not
>> used
>> during a dive. But then again, what does "used during a dive" mean?
>>
>> My interpretation is that if there is no gas change to a tank, then likely
>> that tank isn't used during the dive and we should remove it from the tank
>> list.
>>
>> What I'm trying to prevent is that weird look when under equipment we show
>> six tanks (or three in the case of the Atomics Cobalt) for every dive,
>> even
>> dives with no gas change at all (which after all, for most recreational
>> divers, is all they ever do…)
>>
>> Input?
>>
>
> For libdivecomputer, I've always planned to ignore unused (or disabled)
> mixes. With the same interpretation for "unused" as you gave. I just never
> found the time to implement it.
>
> Jef
>
>
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