Baltic Blender vs Dive Kit

Baltic Blender asks you to let the gas settle after each step, measure the cylinder wall with an infrared thermometer and set that reading on a ruler under the result; the stop pressures follow it. On our fill into an 11.1 L cylinder, moving the reading from 21 to 26 °C raised the oxygen stop from 193.7 to 198.6 bar and the air top-off from 201.0 to 206.1 bar. Dive Kit takes the ambient and fill temperatures once, plans the fill at the fill temperature and adds a step with the pressure the cylinder settles to as it cools.

Baltic Blender's mix picker lists standard mixes from air to oxygen and shows, for ppO2 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6, the depth and END of the mix you are on; helium stays locked until the trimix upgrade. Dive Kit's Blend Planner takes the mix as numbers and leaves depths to its separate Gas Specs tool, which gives END, EAD, ppO2, gas density and the MODs for any mix.

Baltic Blender sets a preblend per cylinder, such as leftover trimix or a banked mix, and handles a preblend that runs out mid-fill. Dive Kit keeps a list of banks of any mix, each unlimited or a limited bottle with its size and pressure, never draws more than a limited bank holds, and offers more than one plan when there is more than one way to make the fill.

Dive Kit's Blend Planner has two more modes. Continuous gives the air, oxygen and helium flow ratios for a mixing panel and the analyser readings to expect; Decant plans a top-off from one cylinder into another through a transfill whip and shows which mixes it can reach first.

Baltic Blender works on several cylinders at once, groups them, and with its $4.99 volumes and billing upgrade prices the gas used and prints or emails a bill. In our session the result listed the gas the fill takes, 817.2 L of oxygen and 70.9 L of air, and asked for gas prices in Settings to show the cost. Dive Kit lists the gas each bank gave for a fill, but has no pricing, groups or bills.