lol you would daz, tut lets ave it
. Well I don't own one of those air integrated transmitters, but from what I’ve heard sometimes there can be difficulty in receiving a signal. Now if this became a frequent occurrence during a dive id find it more of a hindrance than a help so if I had an ‘actively AI computer’ (see below), I'd want to be able to switch to a standard pressure gauge. On a more general note, id disagree that analogue and electronic are prone to failure the same amount. With electronics I think there’s more to go wrong so I’d want a backup. In my opinion an analogue pressure gauge is less likely to fail than a dive computer especially when nowadays you get these user replaceable batteries; that alone has got to cause more POSSIBILITY for them to bugger up, considering you’ve now got to account for the numpty factor (I dare say ill be contributing to the stats after I’ve done mine
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On a slightly different note, regarding soley relying on it (don’t like quotes they look confrontational
) people have been known to carry two computers, if one fails they can complete the dive safely on the second, now if the one that failed happened to be your fancy AI one then you can't because you've just lost your pressure gauge too. Just seems a bit like putting all your eggs in one basket. So say you only dive with one computer, like me. I’ve got a vytec and twin console. If I 'lose' the computer, at least ive still got depth and air, ive only lost time; so at least I can find 6m to deco at. Someone with as many first stage connections as me with AI can lose depth, air and time; ouch. So fair enough ive added a depth gauge, but the point im making is that I can have more redundancy with that one first stage connection than someone with AI. This is why I would not like AI as a soul source of reference. I dunno im probably wrong, usually am
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