Started doing the Multi - Filter component for dives.

Anton Lundin glance at acc.umu.se
Sat Sep 27 04:51:41 PDT 2014


On 26 September, 2014 - Gaetan Bisson wrote:

> [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.
> 

What makes you think it wouldn't be realistic to compute?

It ain't that hard math, so its probably more work to build the
infrastructure in subsurface to handle any other pressure interpolation
variant than the OC one.

//Anton

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