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The Dangers of CO2 Absorbers

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CO2 Exhaustion

ethyl violet turns purple as the, as you increase CO2 absorption. But then with it being exhausted, you can actually see that violet sort of change back to clear. And I think that's probably a better indicator of CO2 exhaustion than ethyl violet. The second one you're talking about is awareness. You always need to be aware that if you decide to change a CO2 absorber mid case, you can see your inspite CO2 just dropped because of that dilution. Or do you not even change this you to canister mid case? I think there's some people who have that. It's never been an issue for me. So I just can't see that

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