AP Diving Ltd. RBV07 Swivel Inflator Range Maintenance Manual
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3. General Information
3.1 Four versions
There are four versions of the RBV07 Swivel inflator within the range. All four versions are
available in both a Diluent as well as an Oxygen model, making a total of eight different
models.
Note: The oxygen models have the letter "A" as a suffix in their part code.
3.2 Gas flow paths
In the pictures below (sections 3.3 to 3.6) the dotted arrows indicate the gas flow through the
inflator when the push button is operated. These are "on-demand" gas flow paths which are
normally blocked but can be temporarily opened by pushing the green or blue push button.
In the case of the four Swivel Inflator models with Flowstop shutoff (sections 3.5 & 3.6) the
solid arrows indicate a straight-through gas flow path through the inflator i.e. a continuous
gas flow regardless of whether the push button is operated. The gas flows uninterrupted from
the inlet through the inflator to the outlet to which the GC3 Flowstop is attached. The gas flow
can of course still be blocked by means of the slider on the GC3 Flowstop.
3.3 Single Swivel Inflators - RBV07 & RBV07A
The
RBV07(A)
has one MP (Medium Pressure) inlet and one MP outlet.
The
RBV07(A)
allows the diver to connect either an onboard or an offboard gas source. This
is made easy by virtue of the swivel design in which the inlet port section of the inflator can
rotate through 360 degrees.
The gas flow path is "on demand", i.e. gas only flows through when the button is pushed.
