The VR3: Extensive Questions & Answers.

[Mark Chase]

I have just upgraded both my VR3s to CCR Trimix with fourth cell. I now have large dents in my walls where I keep throwing the thing across the room in anger

Mind you the complexity of setting the diluents for calibration and using the XO mode is nothing compared with the brain numbing crapness of the down load package. I don’t down load half the time and when it does it shows dives that I haven’t even done. It's truly awful.

ATB

Mark Chase

[Mark Chase]

I have just upgraded both my VR3s to CCR Trimix with fourth cell. I now have large dents in my walls where I keep throwing the thing across the room in anger

Mind you the complexity of setting the diluents for calibration and using the XO mode is nothing compared with the brain numbing crapness of the down load package. I don’t down load half the time and when it does it shows dives that I haven’t even done. It's truly awful.

ATB

Mark Chase

[nigelH]

Originally Posted by Mark Chase

...the down load package.

Keep it away from flourescent lights. That makes a huge difference to mine.

nigelH

[nigelH]

Originally Posted by Mark Chase

...the down load package.

Keep it away from flourescent lights. That makes a huge difference to mine.

nigelH

[turbanator]

Are they really worth it?
I see complaints on here, and I've only seen two in real life up close, one they guy is not a great manual reader and did not have a clue how to use it, in fact he asked me !!

The other seemed quite unreliable wrt the timings of the long and short presses and the fact that the buttons stuck.

I've heard other stuff, but that's heresay and unfair to repeat.

So it seems a big investment (although probably the same to me in real terms as my Suunto solution was 12 years ago) for something that has a lot of frustrations - even if they are design 'wrinkles'.

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Paul

deperate to be convinced 'cos it's a shiney that i've not got

[turbanator]

Are they really worth it?
I see complaints on here, and I've only seen two in real life up close, one they guy is not a great manual reader and did not have a clue how to use it, in fact he asked me !!

The other seemed quite unreliable wrt the timings of the long and short presses and the fact that the buttons stuck.

I've heard other stuff, but that's heresay and unfair to repeat.

So it seems a big investment (although probably the same to me in real terms as my Suunto solution was 12 years ago) for something that has a lot of frustrations - even if they are design 'wrinkles'.

r
Paul

deperate to be convinced 'cos it's a shiney that i've not got

[nigelH]

Originally Posted by turbanator

I see complaints on here, and I've only seen two in real life up close, one they guy is not a great manual reader and did not have a clue how to use it,

He's dead then. The manuals are improving but you ain't going to jump in the water and figure it as you go on this. The thing offers clues to what the buttons do but some of the settings are cryptic in the extreme.

Originally Posted by turbanator

The other seemed quite unreliable wrt the timings of the long and short presses and the fact that the buttons stuck.

Salt makes them stick so a rinse under the tap is vital (it then dribbles on your lap but at least the buttons work). It isn't long and short, that's just an ugly lie started by the manual, it is push and release (activates on release) or push and hold (activates on a timer). Nothing happens when you push a button which confuses the life out of people expecting a change.

I could whinge about some of the features but I've done that before so I won't waste your bandwidth again.

nigelH

[nigelH]

Originally Posted by turbanator

I see complaints on here, and I've only seen two in real life up close, one they guy is not a great manual reader and did not have a clue how to use it,

He's dead then. The manuals are improving but you ain't going to jump in the water and figure it as you go on this. The thing offers clues to what the buttons do but some of the settings are cryptic in the extreme.

Originally Posted by turbanator

The other seemed quite unreliable wrt the timings of the long and short presses and the fact that the buttons stuck.

Salt makes them stick so a rinse under the tap is vital (it then dribbles on your lap but at least the buttons work). It isn't long and short, that's just an ugly lie started by the manual, it is push and release (activates on release) or push and hold (activates on a timer). Nothing happens when you push a button which confuses the life out of people expecting a change.

I could whinge about some of the features but I've done that before so I won't waste your bandwidth again.

nigelH

[turbanator]

Originally Posted by nigelH

I could whinge about some of the features but I've done that before so I won't waste your bandwidth again.

nigelH

Yes, I saw that - interesting, the guy that replied seemed open to your comments and suggestions, tho' they were al s/w based.

I prefer to be able to do things on paper first, so when I start with the RB, I'll use tables, then worry about a computer when I'm in a position to know if it's talking blx. - then there will seem little point having one

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[turbanator]

Originally Posted by nigelH

I could whinge about some of the features but I've done that before so I won't waste your bandwidth again.

nigelH

Yes, I saw that - interesting, the guy that replied seemed open to your comments and suggestions, tho' they were al s/w based.

I prefer to be able to do things on paper first, so when I start with the RB, I'll use tables, then worry about a computer when I'm in a position to know if it's talking blx. - then there will seem little point having one

r
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