nfarrar
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I to am thinking about getting a Lifeline but am waiting on the results of this threa.
Later Mon,
Nick
Later Mon,
Nick
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nautilusmike:Peter
Again my thanks to you.
I wanted to update to let you know that we have had Scott's radio in our lab for a week now and still can't find anything wrong with it. It would be a lot easier at our end if we could find a problem to be quite frank. I've been chatting back and forth with Scott and he seems like a really good guy. We know that the radio wasn't charged after first getting it until the incident - 2 months - but it should have been ok. In sleep mode, the Lifeline uses 10% of it's battery capacity every month so it should have been at 80% or more.
Next step at our end is to send the battery back to the cell manufacturer to evaluate for defects. It's possible that there is a firmware glitch which we haven't found. We're looking hard.
sincerely
Mike
nautilusmike:Peter_C:From what I understand, it was a very rough day/area. Is it known that there were other boats in the area? Maybe his boat had the speaker turned down, or they were tuned into the wrong channel. Of course if he hit the DSC button maybe something did fail, or no one had DSC within his distance.nautilusmike:It's possible that there is a firmware glitch which we haven't found. We're looking hard.
Good luck,
Peter
Thing is that he was not able to turn his Lifeline on. He tried all the buttons. green, orange and red. and tried them a number of times. He couldn't get the display to light up. We've got one more idea that perhaps there was an intermittent problem with the LCD display and that the radio itself turned on ok?? We are sending the LCD back to manufacturer for analysis just in case. We are going to do a big rewrite on the manual to cover a number of issues and lessons learned ie. charge your unit before a dive weekend, check for firmware upgrades every month if you can during this first year or before a big dive trip, use the new self-diagnostic function (currently writing the code) before a dive weekend to check that everything is ok, even if you think your unit is not working, if you need it, depress the red button regardless. etc. trying to make the manual simpler to read and more bullet proof.
Again my thanks for all your suggestions.
cheers
Mike
I agree he dropped the ball, although he did touch base with me. Who knows how many websites he is having a similar conversation on, but you are right and I will give him crap via PM.Peter--please don't take this the wrong way, but it was Mike that promised a report for all interested/impacted by this. Since making that promise there's been nothing, not even an update on the unit being examined. The onus is on him to follow through on his promise.
Our next mission is to see what went wrong and how we can prevent it in the future.