Zeagle Dive Products

Performance/Reliability

Performance and Reliability

High performance in a regulator does no good if its malfunctioning or constantly out of tune. The real world of diving is full of challenges. Sand, salt, high and low temperatures, rough treatment, and lack of maintenance can all cause problems with regulators. Piston designs can lose performance as lubrication is lost from moving O-ring surfaces. Zeagles regulators are designed to maintain top performance withouta lot of maintenance. Our environmentally sealed diaphragm first stages completely exclude water borne contaminants. Our first stage valve design minimizes wear and maximizes longevity. Exposed parts are easy to clean. Materials are carefully chosen to provide the greatest durability. Almost all O-rings are static- no metal is moving against them. These and thousands of other design details are linked with outstanding quality control and testing at the Zeagle factory to provide you with the most reliable regulator possible.

A regulator’s performance is gauged by its ability to deliver air easily under the most demanding conditions of cold water, depth, or a high breathing rate.
You can’t evaluate a regulator’s performance at the surface or in ordinary diving. A regulator can breathe great in the divestore or in easy diving, yet perform poorly under demanding conditions of depth, stress, or cold. That’s why many public and private agencies have conducted independent, objective evaluations of regulator performance. Zeagle regulators are among the select group that exceed the very highest standards set by these agencies, including the US Navy Group A requirements for work of breathing at depth. In fact, Zeagle’s new regulators have demonstrated- in independent testing- some of the best performance figures ever seen. But that’s only part of the story…

To see a set of unmanned test charts from Dive Lab, click on this link.

  

The chart above is taken directly from a printout of testing conducted by a major independent lab. It shows the inhalation and exhalation resistance of the 50D regulator at 198 at a 25 liter per minute breathing rate. The Work of Breathing figure of .89 joules per liter is far below the standard of 1.4 J/l the US Navy requires of their top rated regulators.