How many of you have had a dive computer fail?

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I've been doing tons of diving related reading and have got a question about PDC failure. I know and practice the "one is none, two is one" philosophy in other aspects of life and believe in redundancy and will be doing that more in diving as I delve into it more. I hear everyone saying/asking, what if your PDC failed? So my question is how many of you have had a dive comp failure while diving? I don't consider a dead battery or flooding due to an improperly reinstalled o-ring a failure for my purposes, just a genuine, non user induced equipment failure. Especially of tech computers.

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If you have had a failure and don't mind, please elaborate.
If you haven't had one would you like DM Tom did say how long you've been using your comp and maybe the model, if you don't mind?
 
I had a computer die on me randomly and had to send it back to the manufacturer. i think it was an oceanic or something
 
Current computer has just under 600 dives on it, no failures.
 
I had a pressure transducer go out on me on a dive. No big deal. I've also had a couple instances where the computer just went haywire during the middle of the dive. No low battery warning or anything. Change the battery and it's good to go. That's why I always have a backup. No backup means no dive unless it's some simple OW dive well within NDL's
 
my current computer displays hieroglyphics shallower than like 7 feet. so I guess i've had two failures. but this one I'm just living with
 
I've been doing tons of diving related reading and have got a question about PDC failure. I know and practice the "one is none, two is one" philosophy in other aspects of life and believe in redundancy and will be doing that more in diving as I delve into it more. I hear everyone saying/asking, what if your PDC failed? So my question is how many of you have had a dive comp failure while diving? I don't consider a dead battery or flooding due to an improperly reinstalled o-ring a failure for my purposes, just a genuine, non user induced equipment failure. Especially of tech computers.

My old Smartcom died once. It turned out that the battery indicator had nothing to do with the battery and just measured hours of operation, so when I left it in the garage for a few years then took it diving, it was almost dead even though it said it was almost full.

My Galileo loses signal now and then, but I don't care because I never use it for tech dives. I use a laser printed vPlanner plan taped to a wrist slate with clear packing tape and the Galileo as a bottom timer/depth gauge.

flots.
 
i've seen a computer go blank 3x. twice it was the same computer saying: change my battery - and doing so was the end of the problem. the 3rd was a computer that had been re-sealed with a (too) used o-ring after a battery change. that computer was a goner.
 
I had a suunto gecko display odd depths during a dive, LDS sent it in and suunto replaced it with a zoop.
 
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