- Okay, so here we have the Apex MTX RC regulator.
So this is a cold water regulator.
It's kind of bigger older brother was specifically designed
for the military and especially for cold water diving.
So this is a very tough regulator.
It has heat sinks or over it.
So if you're diving in cold waters
and if you're diving in really sort of rugged terrain
and you want a really tough regulator
this is definitely worth looking at.
So let's take a closer look.
First of all, we're going to take a look at the first stage.
So the first stage itself
this is a five port swiveled turret first stage.
And what that means is you have four low pressure ports
on a swiveling turret.
So that just makes hose routing much easier.
There's less kind of tension on these hoses
because that naturally sort of moves
as you sort of put on that hose.
So it means your hoses are going to last a bit longer
underneath this rubber cap here.
You also have a fifth higher low pressure port
so you can have another low pressure hose.
So you can put your regulator on the end of that.
You can put a BCD hose, whatever you want.
So that just means that you have a greater freedom
of hose routing for whatever you're using it for.
For whether it's single cylinders, state cylinder
or even on twins.
You've got two high pressure ports coming
out of either side.
And these are slightly angled, which means when
you're diving on a state cylinder or twin cylinders
it means that your high pressure hose just naturally goes
around the shoulders again
so it's printing less tension on that hose.
As you can see here, it has heat sinks all the way
sort of down the body of the first stage.
And this is all a sort of helping to prevent it
from freezing up because first stage is when you breathe
from it and really cold water,
ice starts to form and this is going to prevent that,
that as well as this end cap is protecting it from a lot
of sort of bumps and scrapes, but it also prevents ice
from sort of forming over that first stage.
- Now let's look at the second stage.
Now, as Mark already said
this actually was evolution of the MTX R which came
from the military version regulator, the MTX.
Now when they brought out the MTX R
there was a big deal made
about the fact that it didn't actually have any controls.
So there was no Venturi control
and there was no tracking resistance control.
It just worked perfectly out of the box.
However, they soon found
that many people actually like to have these features
whether they use them or not is regardless
but they like to have that feature.
Hence the MTX RC came out.
So as you said, he's got a nice big Venturi lever.
Even if you're wearing dry gloves or thick white gloves
this is nice and easy to move.
The same with the cracking resistance control for how
much inhalation effort you need to get the air going.
This is nice and large.
Again, easy to use regardless
of the exposure protection on your hands.
The other thing that I've always particularly liked
about MPX regs is it's called for bike mouthpiece.
I found this one
of the most comfortable mouth pieces on the market.
It just seems to fit nicely into your mouth.
And there isn't any jaw fatigue,
even if you've been using it for a long time.
The other thing that this has got like many of our regs
in the MPX range is it's got a usable changeable exhaust.
So you can have our next one
which is the full size exhaust
or you can have a smaller one.
I prefer to full-size exhaust.
When you use it it does get the bubbles.
When you exhale either side of your face
well away from your mask, no problems on that front.
It's got a nice big purge on the front
which is quite sensitive, does a job when you need it to.
And also the swivel on this is nice and relaxed.
It's not a tight swivel.
And there's also on the other end here on the first stage
which was something that was brought
over from that black Sapphire 40th anniversary special
which was all to aid
with the lack of pull when you're using it,
which with the braided hose definitely makes it a very
comfortable reg to use.
- And then we move on to the Octos.
Octo is very much the same as the primary.
It's just in the bright yellow configuration.
It still has the Venturi adjustment
which is going to prevent it from free flowing
especially on the surface.
When you first jump in
it's going to interrupt that free flow
but it doesn't have that breathing adjustment
not on the ends because it's just your Octo.
It's, you will rest as an alternate.
But other than that, it's a, it's very similar
in it's styling it still has that metal front
which makes it nice and strong.
It also acts as a bit of a heat sink.
It doesn't have the comfort bike mouthpiece
but it's similar in size
but the only difference is it doesn't have that
bridge that goes in from the top of the roof of your mouth.
And this one also has the,
the smaller more compact exhaust here
compared to that primary.
So it's a bit smaller and a little bit neater.
Okay, so that's the Apex MTX RC regulator
a double tough regulator,
which is very, very sort of flexible,
no matter what hose routing
you want specifically designed
for really cold water and really sort of tough environments.
So if that's what you're looking for in a regulator
these are definitely worth a look.
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