Been out of the water for a few years and need some feedback on gear

[bonjourvn]

Hello all
As the title says it's been a while since I've been in the water and am slowly putting some gear together.
I could use some help with some advise but I have to watch my pennies. I'm not looking at going cheap but if I can save some money it would be great.
The last reg I had was the Dacor Pacer XP w/ a Pacer XP octo and I had a Dacor Digital Console that I won at DEMA in 1995

I've been looking at the Zeagle 30 sale and I want to take advantage of it.
What do you guy's think of the Zeagle ZX 50D Regulator w/ an Envoy Octopus.
And I was looking at either the Mares Puck 3 console or the Oceanic Veo 250.

Not sure about these and would like any input you are willing to provide.

I want to do mostly recreational dives but will probably do a few tech dives later on.

Thanks for your help

[pacdiver]

Zeagle equiptment is good, but you mentioned that you may get into tec diving. If so rather than rebuy equiptment later, look into buying 1 set of gear that can be adapted to your needs like a backplate and harness (hogarthian type ) set up. look at the oms, oxycheq, diverite, deep outdoors web sites and look at their stuff. also look at gue ( global underwater explorers), 5th d.

[DiveDevil1966]

Well, another topic which is having so many opinions and approaches. I don’t like doing this, but I have to disagree with the previous comment of equipment choice.
Firstly I think Zeagle is very good equipment and will do the job perfectly if looked after correctly. I personally owned and dived with a Zeagle BCD's and regulators, and still use the regulator today. So no disagreement there.
Where I disagree is with the equipment choice to do recreational and technical diving. It is not technical diving by using recreational equipment going deep. Technical diving equipment does differentiate very much compared to recreational diving equipment. A lot of BCD's will have provisions for a twin set, which does not make these BCD's suitable for technical diving, and vica versa as a matter of fact.
Personally I would suggest having a set for either activity, recreational diving and then later when you decide to go technical get your proper technical set for such purpose.
That’s my opinion, and that’s what I am doing when I am diving or teaching diving, both recreational and technical.

Dive Devil

[pacdiver]

Thats what is cool about diving lots of personal preferences for different people. The original poster said he would be interested in saving money if he could, and still get good equipment. I dive a backplate and harness, I dive everything in my same set up 1 tank or 5 tanks ( I do change out the wing, for the correct amount of weight I carry, eg. amount of tanks), but everything else remains the same. I have more freedom of movement, part of your weight is a steel plate on my back which takes it off my hips and weight pockets. Most zeagle bc's have too many d rings ( anything not needed is excessive). All this and more in 1 set of gear.
I only own a "rec" type bc because some classes I teach the students wear them, so I switch so I can wear the same bc as them. I dont use "rec" equipment to go deep, I use the same thing, put it in the same place, kick the same, and the people I dive with, dive the same, everybody uses the same gas....... But this is my opinion/ preference, no need to but 2 sets when 1 will work for everything, I dont skimp on anything, but when i dive 30 fsw, I dont switch gear its the same that goes on 250 fsw dives. Just trying to give a person another point of view especially since he'll eventually need it anyway.

[DiveDevil1966]

different opinions, different aproaches. Nothing wrong with ours neither mine. :-)