What length HP hose?

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Originally Posted by jimdiverman

You haven't hit 40 yet. You must still have good near sighted vision. This location is not too close to focus on?

What reg are you using? I am using DR2500s.

Thanks!

Dive safe!

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3 more weeks and I'll be 40. Damn, now I need to move my gauges!:yawinkle:

My gauges face straight out from the tank so I can see them easily. I currently use 6", but would like something shorter so it would be more stiff when the pressure drops.

~Jeff

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Originally Posted by jimdiverman

So the gauge is under your arm above the tank basically?

Thanks!

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They are just like rchrds, but I keep my tanks rotated 90 degrees from what you see in the pic he posted, the gauges are on the inside of the tank. Valve openings to the inside=gauges on the inside.

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Originally Posted by cavediver256

They are just like rchrds, but I keep my tanks rotated 90 degrees from what you see in the pic he posted, the gauges are on the inside of the tank. Valve openings to the inside=gauges on the inside.

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I'm close. Mine are 180 degrees, facing inward. Having the gauges on the inner side also keeps it from being an issue with stages getting in the way. I started with 6" sticking out the top, tried 9" laying down the insides, went back to 6" laying down the insides. Having the gauges sticking straight up was nice when I first started SM, because I was looking at them a lot more often. However, as has already been said, they tend to be the first thing to drag/catch like that.

Shirley, it sounds like we have the same setup...I was planning on trying the 9" hoses (hell I got them on my bench) but I am not so sure I need/want them...The 6" hoses on the inside work real well.

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Originally Posted by rchrds

Here is a pic of HP hose placement- it is a tad hard to see, as I have black boots over the crappy plastic HP gauges- you can see it laying against the side of the tank.

Jason

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How do you read them when scootering?

Mine are against the tank, but on the inside. I have to stop to read them. I tried having them stick out, but they get in the way too often.

I have 9" hoses and route them so that they lay in between the tanks and my body. Then I just reach up underneath to bend them down a bit to read.

I tried having them sticking straight out along my chest for a while, but they kept getting in the way when it got tight.

Marbry

Across my chest. I used to have them sticking straight up, too, but got tired of having to rinse them off after certain dives. Across the chest, they stay out of the way and aren't that difficult to see. Although I do have to pull them out a little to get a good view.

I like 6", laying along the tank.

First post, but i thought i'd join in... :)

I use normal length HP hoses with the excess stored under snoopy loops down the tank and the gauge held close to the regulator by another snoopy loop larks-footed around the tank neck. There is enough stretch and flex to allow it to be pulled out to be read.