Which Dive Computer?

[nmanfield]

Originally Posted by daz

OK I'll bite,  why not rely solely on it?

Sure it may go wrong or not function correctly but then so could a analogue guage.

In which case maybe we should all have 2 guages just in case one goes wrong, and how would we know which one had gone wrong if there was a discrepency?

Yep it's a gimmick, yep it's a expensive luxary, but personally I would not consider it any more unreliable than a analogue guage.

Daz

[nmanfield]

Originally Posted by daz

OK I'll bite,  why not rely solely on it?

Sure it may go wrong or not function correctly but then so could a analogue guage.

In which case maybe we should all have 2 guages just in case one goes wrong, and how would we know which one had gone wrong if there was a discrepency?

Yep it's a gimmick, yep it's a expensive luxary, but personally I would not consider it any more unreliable than a analogue guage.

Daz

Got to agree with Daz,

I've got an Aladin air Nitrox Z AI and love it. Saying that I do carry a depth and pressure gauge with me (use it for instruction). I would say that I've never had a problem with the computer, though I'm now on my second set of gauges.

[junior diver]

I've got the quantum, I love I don't think alot of other people do.

[Tonto]

I've got the Vyper, very happy with it, nothing to compare it to as not used anything else.
Got SWMBO a secondhand US Divers M1 as she'll probably lose it anyway I'm looking for the manual at the moment if anyone has a photocopy or scan it would be gratefully recieved I've come across the userguide which seems a bit small so if anyone has a bigger one?

[Chris Bone]

using a VR3 now been using it for a year now had no problems, using my old vyper in gauge mode, also a good computer.

[Dinner Lady]

Originally Posted by Mart

Got SWMBO a secondhand US Divers M1 as she'll probably lose it anyway

Need to be more careful dude, I'm watching you! It wasn't my fault the watch fell off my wrist.

[Hellvet]

My computer is definitely my favourite bit of kit! I have a vyper as someone in the club had his son's one (who had given up diving) and wasn't going to use it and sold it cheap! At the time i thought it would be more than adequate for the diving i would be doing, but now i wish i had got a vytec, with the gas switching, as i am diving on nitrox only since my bend.
Love the user friendly buttons and display, very visible, easy to understand, all info on one screeen, one of the newer bubble algorithms, plus user changeable batteries, robust yet relatively streamlined.

Best advice i was given was: Buy the best you can afford, and a computer that will cover all the diving you will be likely to be doing, so that it will last you as long as possible.
My advice: all of this, but buy something you feel comfortable with the layout, size, etc, plus go for wrist mounted rather than console (my personal preference!), plus have a back up table and depth guage/bottom timer...

Helen

[alross]

Got a suunto geko

[MATTBIN]

Originally Posted by alross

Got a suunto geko

Snap!!!
at LIDS.

Matt

[Aqua]

I have a Suunto Mosquito. I bought Darwin from Dacor you can have the Airlab from Mares. I really like it. You have every information you need during the dive in one view. It helps a lot in low visibility water.

Originally Posted by James Price

HI

  I have had a suunto stinger and want to upgrade to something that is a little "more", I still want it to show the time when asked but want a computer that has more applications for use as my diving experience increases. I do like air integrated computers ( vytec and aladin air z 02 ) but the vr2 has a alot more on offer in the later stages of diving.
  Anyway does anyone have any suggestions?

thanks
james