Veo 100 Battery

[Jim-C]

I have the Veo 100 all most 2 years old. I changed the battery for the first time. After one day of diving battey read low and showed wrong date & time. On the drive home it shut down completely. I restarted it several times allways showing a low battery and shutting itself down. One week later I put another new battery in. After first dive showed low battery and wrong date and time. The rest of the day it went back and forth FULL battery LOW battery. I put the first battery back in and now its sitting on my table readig FULL battery running through thr pre dive mode.
I would appreciate any in put .

Jim

 

[philmayer]

Some Oceanic PDCs are finicky about batteries.

Run a search on here, somebody researched it a year or two ago and found the battery brands that worked best.

 

[scubaaaronh]

I did a search on it and i cant find anything on it. I have a 250 that is doing the same thing. i have put in four batteries now and am ready to send it back.

 

[RonMurray]

There is an Oceanic rep on this board in the manufacturers forum. But I recall that the SONY batteries (as opposed to Eveready, Panasonic, etc.) are the recommended brand for that computer.

 

[JeffG]

Have you ever flooded it?

 

[scubaaaronh]

i have energizer batts at home for it i believe.

nope never flooded, and after i put the original batt back in i did two dives on it no problem.


When we were in bonaire there was a person at one of the dive sites having the same problem with a 180

 

[Jim-C]

It has not been flooded.
I spoke to a Oceanic tech who said thier is only 3 batteries they recomend. I only remember 2 of them sony and panosonic. He also agreed to look at it under warranty. This would normally cost $120 without warranty. I just checked UPS tracking tonight, Oceanic should have it on monday. The tech said it would take up to 4 days to check it out. For now we will just have to wait and see.
Thanks for the input
Jim
feb1562@sbcglobal.net

 

[D_B]

I just sent my VEO 200 in to have them look at it for doing similar things, but not showing a low battery indication, shows full .. has not been able to hold a battery since it was replaced under warr. for a cracked battery cover and flooded. It got to the point that I just changed the batteries for each dive trip if more than a month or two on them .. last straw was today when it repeatedly shut down for "low battery" and it shows full battery...
has had energizer, duracell, and another brand that I'm not sure of

EDIT: looks like only Panasonic and Sony batteries are acceptable ... http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/3393695-post10.html

 

[visibilityunlimited]

There is the possibility that there is too much charge in the battery as well.

 

[D_B]

There is the possibility that there is too much charge in the battery as well.

?
Why would there be more charge now than months ago?
I've measured battery voltages before and I think there might be only a slight difference between a new one and the few days old one .. 3.0something verses 3.1