kallend 1,679 #1 December 22, 2007 If you're concerned about your oxygen saturation at altitude, whether your technique with the oxygen hose works well, etc. this place has some good deals: www.devonsuperstore.com/pulseox_category.aspx... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
asmund 0 #2 December 23, 2007 Inexpensive??I like subway. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 1,679 #3 December 23, 2007 QuoteInexpensive?? Yup. Check out the others!... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,410 #4 December 23, 2007 QuoteInexpensive?? Compared to the $400 I paid two years ago, YES!!!"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DougH 270 #5 December 23, 2007 QuoteInexpensive?? You can't afford 80 bucks?"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelpdiver 2 #6 December 24, 2007 QuoteQuoteInexpensive?? Compared to the $400 I paid two years ago, YES!!! That is a drop - I looked at them before I did a 24k jump without carrying O2 out of curiosity, but the prices were prohibitive. Now if the accuracy suffers for this price, not a bargain, of course. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
martin-o 0 #7 December 25, 2007 My experience, at groundlevel, is that the cheap ones work decently. They are as accurate as is usefull when drawing conclusion in a hurry. If you want really exact data on your blood oxygen saturation you would need to take a bloodgas and that ain't an option at 8000 meters . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
headcase 0 #8 December 25, 2007 No doubt about in some areas we have experienced deflation, in particular pulse oximetry is one area where verible price implosion exists compared to the days of Johnny B. West climbing Everest with sampling containers schlepped back to Base Camp to be analyzed by crude gas analysis machines and Cullen who essentially invented the stuff to now where you go to Walmart and pick up a device that essentially spits out credible data in 30 seconds....incredible. But then again I'd be a little afraid to find out my SPO2 at 18K as Johnny B. will be the first to tell you he ain't the same since the high altitude forays.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Peterkn 17 #9 December 25, 2007 The $60 one advertised in the link is the same as the one I used on the 400-ways in Thailand, but they are now les than half the price I paid. At the time I thought it was well worth the money. Here's what I wrote about it before : http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2795204;search_string=hypoxia;#2795204 Pete Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
headcase 0 #10 December 26, 2007 Quote.... he ain't the same since the high altitude forays.... Either am I for that matter however I was lucky in so far as my watershed circulation was in my frontal lobe. Poor man's frontal lobotomy.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
