Fwd: sample UDDF file

[Dirk Hohndel]

Jan Schubert <Jan.Schubert at GMX.li> writes:

> On 01.03.2013 17:44, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>>> What would we do with that - see my email two minutes ago.
>>>
>>> It doesn't make any difference to Subsurface whether this is a value
>>> that was set or a value that was measured.
>> Setpo2 only gets you so far, afaik. If you dive deeper than the po2 of
>> your diluent gas, you're going to have a bigger po2 than your setpo2
>> value.
>
> Yes and no: You will have a higher po2 as your setpoint PO2 in case you
> do a diluent flush (meaning you exchange all the gas inside your
> rebreather with fresh diluent). But in real life you would be able to
> "breath it down" as your body consumes the oxygen inside your
> rebreather. Diving an eCCR means, there will no additional oxygen been
> feed into the rebreather as long as the real po2 is equal or higher then
> the setpoint po2. Understood?

Oh cool. So I really need to check if I ever commited the code I just
mentioned as it would actually be WRONG.

>> So no, setpo2 is *not* the same as "constant po2 in the samples" afaik.
>
> Not sure what you mean with constant po2 but I'm afraid you are wrong :-).

Linus? Wrong? Never.

>> But hey, we haven't done the rebreather cert yet, so what do I know..
>
> You are aiming for it? :-)

Ask us why we are Trimix certified :-)

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