Boosting

[john j]

I'm using boosters.  I use the Jetsam Technology "baby booster".  I also have a two-stage haskel that I use to feed the baby booster enabling me to use all but 100 PSI from a source tank. The baby booster doesn't do much once the source tank falls below 600 PSI. 

If I could do it all over again, I'd buy the Jetsam "microbooster" which is an electrically driven booster pump that has higher throughput than the baby booster and you don't need an air compressor to run it.  It just plugs in to a 120 volt outlet.  Very nice.

Jetsam has been good to me-they stand behind their products and repair costs are quite reasonable.




Many of the CCR people I know are just trans filling unless they have some special long road trip to a remote location.  In that case, they will go to a shop that has a booster and get their tanks completely full.  If they are flying somewhere, they can't do that of course. 

Some folks never use boosters-they just have their old OC tanks filled with oxygen or diluents and trans fill in the field or they trans fill at whatever dive shop they can find at their destination.

I love my boosters, but they are not cheap and they have, on occasion, failed when I needed them most.  I never completely count on a booster to work, so I always have a backup tank filling plan if I am on an important dive trip.