Dive computers

"TonyH" <tony@samesamediving.com> wrote in message
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> Gauge mode

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Is it really worth 60 quid to somebody who only dives when abroad (which
makes trimix diving rarther unlikely)?
Surely another option (if you really wanted it) would be to buy a Uwatec
D-Timer as a backup, which provides the 'gauge mode' if you ever wanted it,
and a backup on the dive should you need it?

Alun Harford

> Why the Vyper over the Gekko?

PC interface - especially as he said he'd prefer to have one. Although of
course its another £60 or so to get the 'official' hardware to link it, but
you can make your own for a few £ - and I definitely like having it,
wouldn't want to lose it even to save £60 or so.

David

In article <2p9lv1Fia0iuU1@uni-berlin.de>, Bari Pollard
<news@barijohnDOTplus.com> writes
>
>
>> Computer hookup would be nice, probably
>>
>
>If you can do without the above try the Suunto Gekko it is basically the
>vyper without the download option but quite a bit cheaper. It is currently
>£139 at www.godive-uk.com

Good prices.

The other difference seems to be the lack of a light (although it is
luminant after shining your torch on it).

Given the amount of diving I do (a few weeks a year), that may well be
the one for me.

I quote like the Vytec, but as I don't have my own reg, the pressure
transmitter wouldn't be much use (I assume it can't just be attached and
detached to the shop's kit).

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David Mahon

> I quote like the Vytec, but as I don't have my own reg, the
> pressure transmitter wouldn't be much use (I assume it can't
> just be attached and detached to the shop's kit).

Shouldn't be a big problem - it should just screw in and out.

OTOH, I personally don't see the point in paying £££ for a contents gauge.

Iain

> He could also wait until the NEC dive show in November and haggle a low
> price for the computer & interface, like I did a couple of years ago
>
Woops, my mistake, the Gekko does not have PC download option.

I would NOT buy a dive computer without download facility, because it is a
major benefit in logging your dives, allowing you (and more experienced
divers) to analyse the dive and may be useful in a DCI incident by the
hyperbaric doctors.

I fully agree that £60-£80 is well spent on a dive timer, and that is
exactly what I have as a backup device.

"Iain Smith" <iainmsmith@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> > I quote like the Vytec, but as I don't have my own reg, the
> > pressure transmitter wouldn't be much use (I assume it can't
> > just be attached and detached to the shop's kit).
>
> Shouldn't be a big problem - it should just screw in and out.
>
> OTOH, I personally don't see the point in paying £££ for a contents gauge.
>
> Iain
>


I agree, the optional pressure transmitter for the Vytec is overpriced and
another bit of electronics that can fail, even if its just a flate battery
in the transmitter.

TonyH wrote:

> Woops, my mistake, the Gekko does not have PC download option.
>
> I would NOT buy a dive computer without download facility, because it is a
> major benefit in logging your dives, allowing you (and more experienced
> divers) to analyse the dive and may be useful in a DCI incident by the
> hyperbaric doctors.

You're dead right about the first half - the gekko does not have a user
download function, but I thought that chambers have been issued with
software to download them (it requires some sort of software key as I
understand it)?

I'm sure someone else will be able to tell us the details...

Ben

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Ben Panter, Edinburgh, UK
email is false. Use my name (no spaces) at bigfoot which is a com.

> You're dead right about the first half - the gekko does not have a user
> download function, but I thought that chambers have been issued with
> software to download them (it requires some sort of software key as I
> understand it)?

Yep definitely remember hearing that from somewhere - just like lots of
stuff you buy really, physically identical, costs exactly the same to make,
but chuck a different label on and a couple of very quick changes in
software and sell it at a different price to a different part of the market.
Makes good sense really.

David

In article <cgphul$cpl$1@sparta.btinternet.com>, TonyH
<tony@samesamediving.com> writes
>Don't bother with a US import as you will probably pay all the VAT and a
>handling charge when it arrives in the UK, negating the difference in cost
>(unless you or a friend travel to the US and buy it over the counter &
>return with it in the luggage).

A lot of the stuff from the sites I've looked at is available from the
US is available including VAT and postage charges (and priced in pounds)

You can save about 100 quid on a titanium stinger but the rest make it
not really worth it.

As I'm off to Hurghada soon, anyone know what prices are like over
there?

Am now wishing I'd bought one in Male airport (but it would have pissed
me off at the time - buying one on the way home from the holiday).

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David Mahon

"David Walker" <wbsdavenews@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > You're dead right about the first half - the gekko does not have a user
> > download function, but I thought that chambers have been issued with
> > software to download them (it requires some sort of software key as I
> > understand it)?
>
> Yep definitely remember hearing that from somewhere - just like lots of
> stuff you buy really, physically identical, costs exactly the same to
make,
> but chuck a different label on and a couple of very quick changes in
> software and sell it at a different price to a different part of the
market.
> Makes good sense really.
>
> David

I suppose it's possible but only if they still if the download contacts on
the bottom, if not then I don't see how it can be downloaded.