Started doing the Multi - Filter component for dives.

Gaetan Bisson bisson at archlinux.org
Fri Sep 26 17:38:30 PDT 2014


[2014-09-27 00:47:58 +0200] Anton Lundin:
> On 26 September, 2014 - Gaetan Bisson wrote:
> 
> > [2014-09-26 15:02:20 +0200] Robert Helling:
> > > Another thing I forgot earlier: The calculation of the gas consumption need adopting to rebreathers as well.
> > 
> > I do not think it does.
> > 
> > We could ask for the O2 SAC and the O2 cylinder type/pressure/volume,
> > but since O2 consumption does not depend on depth its computation is
> > hardly significant. That's why to keep things simple my proposed UI only
> > asks for the setpoint.
> > 
> 
> O2 consumption _is_ depth dependent. To achieve a ppO2 of 1.3 on 70m in a
> XL "bladder" from a 10/50 Dil consumes more O2 than achieving ppO2 of
> 1.3 in a Air Dil at 30m.
> 
> The O2 metabolism will just be proportional to the workload, but to
> calculate the O2 metabolism from the used O2 volume we would need a
> counter-lung+loop+scrubber+head estimate.

Right. I only had O2 consumption due to metabolism in mind. As you point
out more information is required for the rest, so I did not think it
would be realistic to compute.

-- 
Gaetan


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