Recreational planning with Subsurface?
Jan Mulder
jlmulder at xs4all.nl
Thu Jan 25 02:35:53 PST 2018
On 25-01-18 11:28, Robert Helling wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> On 25. Jan 2018, at 10:16, Rick Walsh <rickmwalsh at gmail.com
>> <mailto:rickmwalsh at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> 2) Even more important, at the bottom it says that the dive
>> requires 1245 litres of gas, more than is in the cylinder. But
>> this is wrong because the 12 litre 232 bar cylinder takes 2784 litres.
>>
>>
>> That looks like a bug. I'm guessing the calculation here assumes the
>> starting pressure was zero. If you don't enter a starting pressure,
>> the planner should assume cylinder working pressure.
>
> I am not sure I would call this a bug. If there is no starting pressure
> we simply don’t know how much gas we have, so we cannot base any
> calculation on this. One could argue that the starting pressure should
> be initialised with the working pressure and I just pushed a commit to
> that amount but I am not sure that it’s obvious we want this.
>
> The other problem I will look into later today.
And I just found an endless loop related to no starting pressure and
rec. mode, but not sure why (yet).
I start "plan", clear 4 unused cylinders, change to a small 10L
cylinder, and when clearing the start pressure it loops forever.
--jan
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