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[Chris H]

OK Gert, I'll bite.

Breathing the long hose works really well. I sometimes have problems with it floating up into my valves and limiting my range of motion, but that is usually because I managed to pull it from my waist strap because I don't have a canister light.

I switched to the 24" HP hose with the single gauge because I saw you unclip, read, and re-clip yours in a matter of seconds. It was a bit of a struggle at first because it is so darn short, but I mostly have it figured out now.

For routing, I have the BC Inflator and Long hose on the primary reg(Right post)and the Dryuit inflator and the HP gauge on the back-up (Left Post). I found this on the GUE site and I think it was pictures of George's gear.

Why are the LP Inflators not switched? The BC could come off the Back-up in a nice straight path instead of the strange path it makes in my current configuration, and the Drysuit hose could come around the right side instead of the left. I don't have my equipment this way, but I have seen it done like this. You gave me a good answer for why the pressure gauge is on the left post. Do you have a good reason for the inflator configuration as well? Is it because the typical drysuit inflator routing is to the left side and if there was a problem with the inflator that is where a buddy would typically reach?

Thanks

Chris