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Recently I met
Martien at my home. He took his brand new JJ-CCR and offered me
the first glance of this very nice rebreather. Martien followed
his Inspiration rebreather training in the Netherland with
IANTD. John Dekker his trainer, took him through level I, II and
III. Martien dives his unit on the North Sea for people who do
not know this Sea, it is not very easy diving. Many times there
are currents and visibility is not always at best. Since Martien
loves to dive in wrecks he wants a reliable unit and found this
in the Inspiration Vision rebreather. Unfortunately for Martien
he is a
short guy, so his arms are too. (although these arms have a
absurd diameter ;) ) He had troubles with the front mounted
counter lungs of the Inspiration and decided to try the JJ-CCR.
With pain in the heart he switched from Inspiration to JJ_CCR.
Together we took several hours to compare this new rebreather
with other units. I was happily surprised to find a very well
build high quality unit. Of course there are advantages and
disadvantages compared to Meg or Inspo, but I have to say I was
impressed with the high standards of this rebreather. In other
words: a great and very well build rebreather. Know how of
divers and not of designers. There are positive and some
negative aspects but see for yourself.
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First of
all a compliment for the builders: The manual is online
and can be found here:
http://www.jj-ccr.ch/images/stories/downloads/jj-ccr_manual_201.pdf
also there is a full Quinetiq test report
available online:
http://www.jj-ccr.ch/images/stories/downloads/test_report.pdf
pricelist can be found here:
http://jj-ccr.ch/images/stories/downloads/price_list_q3_2010.pdf
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Features:
(included or not included depends on the configuration).
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- Aluminium canister
supports tanks 2 - 12 liter
- Axial and Radial
scrubber available
- Really nice heavy stand
- Front OR back mounted
counterlungs
- Redundant power sources
1 in controller, 1 on top of head for HUD, 2 on top for
Solenoid. (external mounted from loop)
- ADV
- BOV
- Manual oxygen addition,
off board gas connection
- Manual diluent
addition, off board gas connection
- Independant HUD with
real time dispplay of PPO2 with led signals for all three
cells
- Shearwater Predator
controller and real time decompression mixed gas dive
computer. (third party).
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- 700x400x260 mm (27,5" x 15,7"x 10,23")
- 32 kgs with 2 x 3 ltr tanks and
absorbend, 19 kgs without absorbend and without tanks.
- Axial scrubber 2,3 kg,
duration 168 minutes (@40mtr,40ltr/min, 1,6 ltr/CO2)
Sofnolime 797.
- Radial scrubber 3,0 kg duration
230 minutes (@40mtr,40ltr/min, 1,6 ltr/CO2)Sofnolime 797.
- Counterlung volume 2 x 8 ltrs
- Depth limits 40 mtr air diluent, 100 mtr
trimix diluent, controller depth limit = 185 mtr
- Oxygen first stage M26x2 (Din on
request)
- Diluent first stage DIN G 5/8"
- Oxygen control: low and high setpoint
- Oxygensensors: Teledyne R-22APD or
JJ-CCR cells
- Setpoint range 0,4 - 1,5 bar pO2
- Warnings: low 0,4 / high 1,6 bar pO2
- AFAIK no CE marking today. CE marking in
progress.
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Interesting features:
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- Low power consumption
solenoid with "always in closed position" failure mode
- Shearwater Predator
controller has dedicated functions for this rebreather.
- HUD fully independent of
shearwater controller, equipped with three dual color LED (3
colors).
- HUD has complete
redundant circuit with own power circuit and functions even
without the Shearwater switched on.
- HUD and Shearwater have
separate calibration sequences.
- ADV with automatic and
manual addition modus.
- Manual valves with the
possibility to connect external gas sources, for both oxygen
and diluent side.
- One hand operated Bail
Out Valve. Valve equipped with standard Scubapro regulator
- Controller is hardwired
to scrubber lid (not optical)
- Controller has OLED with
adaptation to ambient light level.
- Battery compartment is
accessible by opening 10 hexagon screws. (not very often due
to low power consumption)
- Gas injection at the
T-Piece, not on the bottom of the CL.
- All parts are milled
- Scrubber head is screwed
on the innerscrubber and pushed in the external (the one
with the text) aluminum scrubber holder.
- Clippard Solenoid
- On the backside of the
unit there are two tubes vertical mounted to add weight to
the rebreather.
- Back mounted
counter lungs (or front)
- Radial long duration
scrubber (or axial)
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Impression:
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The unit is made with very high quality materials and offers
many possible configuration. The "hardware" is extremely heavy
build. The unit is 32 kilo and is very stable on his stand. The
controller is made in Canada and not a part of the rebreather
factory. Also there is no CE marking so far but that seem to be
changed soon.
To me the unit seems very reliable, very well build for a
competitive price.
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| Here you find detailed pictures
of the unit of Martien Immerzeel. Also I would like to thank
Martien for his kind cooperation to make this article! |
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To the GALLERY
please do not forget to click the
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additional textinformation. |
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first published
14-07-2010 |
