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| Originally Posted by Finless I'm confused, I could understand you losing your dive history but why should changing the battery cause the other problems? Which one have you got; the Commander Nitrox?
When you say you can not change settings do you use the side contacts or the Analyst software?
I found the Cochran people really helpful (I phoned them up in America) when I had a problem. Per their web site their UK dealers are:- Comparison Results
Having said that, I don't remember either being the business name I was given when I went up to the Cochran stand at LIDS.
Apparently there is a new single battery unit for the Cochras which lasts 6 times longer than 'ordinary batteries'. |
What happened was that sometime between mid November and early Feb. the user changeable batteries went flat, this then discharged the internal lithium battery (its only use is to act as a power source while you change the N size batteries) and corrupted the stored dive data - this then stops the PC acquiring (connecting with) the cochran.
This was a refurbished Commander+ bought from Cochran, 4 years ago.
I had bought a Commander Nitrox second hand, only to find, after buying the download kit (£110), that it had the above problem. Spoke to Cochran and they said send it to use to be checked out. Told it was beyond repair and all they could do was offer me a deal on a new computer or a refurbished one.
I may look at trading up to a EMC-20H, but it will probably be too expensive for the limited amount of diving I now do.
I always found the commander+ to be a very easy computer to use, although it could be somewhat annoying when changing nitrox settings between dives.