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Advice on half ropes 13-Jan-2013 At 12:09:07 AM strerror

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I've always climbed on single ropes, initially a 10.2 petzl nomad, and currently on a 9.7 tendon master. I was happy with both ropes, but increasingly been interested in using half rope system. My issue though is that I weigh 96kg and with a full rack that's significantly over all of the usual stats associated with rope tests and the like. I found this link:
http://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/1942/ideal-and-minimal-rope-diameter-for-lead-climbing
Which seems to suggest that even a 15 fall half rope will barely give me 1 decent fall at my weight. Does this match other people's understanding / experience? Am I simply to big to climb on half ropes safely (or safely for one fall only!) ?

On a related note is it accurate to say that when using a half rope system, though it's obviously situation dependent, it's relatively common to really only be falling on effectively one strand?