Vytec Settings - Big Difference in Deco Time?

[yellowduke]

Does anyone know if you get really significant differences between settings on Suunto computers? Reason I ask is that my computer was on P2 and RGBM 100 and gave me significantly longer stops than my buddy on P1 and RGBM 50.

Jim

[gobfish1]

Originally Posted by yellowduke

Does anyone know if you get really significant differences between settings on Suunto computers? Reason I ask is that my computer was on P2 and RGBM 100 and gave me significantly longer stops than my buddy on P1 and RGBM 50.

Jim

your no old giffer mode m8 .. so YES significantly longer stops,
turn them off and you will be back on the boat well be4 you're buddy ,,

read the small book you got with the puter ..

[thehappychappy]

Originally Posted by yellowduke

Does anyone know if you get really significant differences between settings on Suunto computers? Reason I ask is that my computer was on P2 and RGBM 100 and gave me significantly longer stops than my buddy on P1 and RGBM 50.

Jim

RGBM 100 you are running 100% of the Suunto Reduced Gradient Bubble Model
RGBM 50 is 50% of it, so yes significantly longer sounds about right.

Remember these are theoretical models. The Majority of people who dive a Suunto do say the models are conservative.

The RGBM 100 Model does not guarantee you wont get a bend and neither does the RGBM 50 Model.

Are you in good health? Do you Smoke? Do you exercise often? You may or may not find the RGBM50 model does work for you and you don't get bent or you may find the opposite true, after all its theory.



Davie

[gobfish1]

Er ment to say dont blame me if you get bent ,, its only the inter net ,

[Sipadan]

i have a vytec and have it set to the least conservative setting. anecdotally, stop times on 2nd and subsequent dives of the day seem a lot longer than my old aladin. it's a non-ds model and i hate the fact that it deco takes much longer to clear at 6 metres versus 3 metres.

[NJT]

Originally Posted by Sipadan

i have a vytec and have it set to the least conservative setting. anecdotally, stop times on 2nd and subsequent dives of the day seem a lot longer than my old aladin. it's a non-ds model and i hate the fact that it deco takes much longer to clear at 6 metres versus 3 metres.

It will as the deco is most efficient the closer you are to the deco ceiling.

if you are doing a bit of deco i.e. the ceiling stays at 3m then the model requires you to get to between 3 and 4.5 m to get the most efficient (fastest) deco. The Suunto puts the up and down triangles (looks like an hourglass) on screen to indicate this.

Hope this explains.

Reading the Suunto bumpf the DS is just a bit if a fudge. Which you could add yourself by ascending Slooooowly

Regards
Nick

[yellowduke]

I have looked at the manual but it doesn't really give any comparison of how much longer the deco time will be for each setting. Something to add to the buddy check, comparing computer settings!

Jim

[Sipadan]

Originally Posted by NJT

It will as the deco is most efficient the closer you are to the deco ceiling.

that was the point of my post

Originally Posted by NJT

if you are doing a bit of deco i.e. the ceiling stays at 3m then the model requires you to get to between 3 and 4.5 m to get the most efficient (fastest) deco.

sure, but i don't like it!

[gobfish1]

Originally Posted by yellowduke

I have looked at the manual but it doesn't really give any comparison of how much longer the deco time will be for each setting. Something to add to the buddy check, comparing computer settings!

Jim

we had a bit of a in club joke going when we first got the computers ,

we would change are buddys computer setting to old giffer mode ,
go for a dive and then back at 6m we would all laugh at the poor sod as we all waved him good bye , back on the boat we would all eat his lunch ,,

worked well for training after they had missed one lunch they all would check computer s be4 they jumped in on a dive ,,

i like the said computer, when i first got it ,, did the job got me out of the water not bent ,,

ps had the thing go blank few times , when you get 99mins deco it cant show no more ,, but when you hit the botton,s for deco it comes up with some numbers again ,, all good fun ,,, it my not be a vr3 , but i did lots of dive s
down to 70m and more then 99mins deco and it was just fine ,,

if you do a few sim dives you can start to see how much time it will knock of
for dif gas mixs ,, give you a good handle on what you,re real deco is going to be ,,

if you use o2 with it , dont put 99% on the computer put 97%/96% then it with let you change gas at 6m , if you but 99% in you have to wait till you can slide passed 6m , have a good play with it and you will see there is ways to make it work v well ,,