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The Shearwater Teric Announced
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mderrick
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1) The battery life is fine, typical of computers in it's class at 30 to 50 dive hours depending on AI. Dive computers that get a once a year battery change are just not going to be in it's class for features and functionality. The charge is good enough for a solid week of diving on the bright settings. If you are concerned put it in the charging cradle for a couple of hours at the end of your dive day. If you are paranoid about power availability for the charger, use an ordinary portable USB power pack like those used to recharge cell phones, etc.
2) Display is TERRIFIC. 60+ years old, I've had it in the water side by side with a Perdix and a Petrel. It's better than either of those in the water and I've never heard similar complaints about those two, which are widely considered best in class. The AMOLED 800x800 display with the BIG LAYOUT setting puts the Teric in a class by itself.
3) Valid consideration, but modern electronics doesn't seem to work that way... waiting for the "next" version will likely have you waiting forever. However, I don't really feel like that's an issue here. It's a new design, but from a dive computer company that has a very long history and by all accounts has really figured out dive computers. I'm sure every dive computer out there has bugs, Shearwater included, but Shearwater has a history of being transparent about bugs and responding to them quickly. The feature of the Shearwater computers is that it's easy and free to upload new firmware updates. The Teric took something like 18 months to bring to market, and a lot of that time was spent on divers wrists. I'm not particularly concerned, it might have an edge condition they didn't think of but the core functionality is rock solid. That being said, because of the nature of how I dive, I have to use the Teric as my backup.
Hello admikar.
The primary reason why I decided to purchase a Teric is that for some time now I’ve felt the need to find a more suitable means of wearing, seeing, and accessing my back-up computer on closed circuit dives. As I’m not blessed, (or cursed), with arms the length of a chimpanzee or gorilla, I’ve run out of space between my elbows and wrists to mount instrumentation. After many years of diving CCR’s and stowing back-up computers in less than ideal locations, the Teric has replaced my wristwatch and compass, thus allowing me to have all of the information that I want and need ideally situated and readily available.
Added benefits for me include the facts that I can also ditch my watch and Petrel for open circuit dives, become a hero to my son because he’s getting that unit dropped into his grubby little hands with no prior anticipation of such manna, and know that the Teric will now be able to track my deco and OTU status during those rare occasions when I use both OC and CC within a short time frame.
As I noted earlier, I will consistently wear the Teric as a watch during mostl of my dive travel, but will refrain from doing so when I’m living that part of my life that does not require such a sophisticated piece of expensive, specialized technology. I’m adventurous, inquisitive, and active, but not overly lucky nor blessed with catlike reflexes. Having thus learned a bit from my own mistakes, I find no need to wear a Teric when I have to change a tire, climb a mountain, play a game of catch with some of the neighborhood kids, clean up after a hurricane, ride the subway in NYC, paint a house, or engage in an arm wrestling match against my friend Moose. These are some of the reasons why I also own a 20 year old Casio G-Shock.
As noted, if you use it like a Perdix AI, it should last about as long on a charge as a Perdix AI.
That means it would probably see most people through a week of diving without being charged. However, when I go diving, I have, thus far, always stayed somewhere that had electricity available at night. I put my cell phone on its charging stand every night. Do I HAVE to do that? No. But, it's easier to do that than try to look at it and decide if I need to charge it or not, then risk having it die the next day. Actually, I wear a smart watch daily which also uses wireless charging. When I travel, I take the charging cradle for it and put it on the charger every night. It serves as my bedside clock.
I don't really see the Teric being any different. (When I get one) I will take the charging cradle with me and set it up next to my bed, just like I do with my phone charger, then drop the computer onto its charger each night.
But if I didn't, it seems it should still get me through a week or more of diving before the battery level would become an issue....
You answered your own question. I really do not like wearing a brick. It's the reason I sold my Petrel 2 in favor of the Seabear H3 I have. My shop hasn't received any Terics yet, but I am first on the list...
I was on the fence, but the photos of the two side by side has me leaning towards the Perdix AI. There is just no substitute for size. In each photo, my eye was immediately drawn to the larger display. I an not going to use this as a watch, so I don't mind the extra size, and, I like the user-changeable battery.
I am also amused at how all of the things the Sheatwater devotees railed against as frivolous, "gear solutions to skill problems," unreliable, inconvenient, unsuitable, etc, etc, such as AI and rechargeable batteries, are now see as great features now that Shearwater has added them in. But, this is a good thing and glad to see that people can appreciate value added once they experience it.
As for the Perdix, the Teric does create a (pretty short) wishlist:
Thicker fonts on key data (depth, time, NDL, PSI/GTR) to enhance readability even more.
For REC OC mode, on the deco area drop the safety stop display until you actually reach the stop, and increase the size of the NDL and ascent rate displays instead.
Add the GF on surface feature somewhere as an option to configure.
In the bottom gas line, minimize the size of the mix info (I don't need to see that during the dive mode) to give more space for larger font displays of PSI and GTR and allow the "PSI/GTR" combo display to be added as a configurable item..
In Rec OC single tank mode, put in a calculation for GTR that includes the safety stop (even for the "adaptive" safety stop). This is reliably done by many other manufacturers.
Figure some way to get the "floating" compass display as an option on the main screen.
once the compass is displayed, one-press for marking a heading
Finally, and this is my own, some way, in surface screen mode, to immediately (one or two presses) access "set gas" (NOT select gas from a preprogrammed menu). Where I dive, we often switch mixes for different dives, and there is some variability from what you order from the shop and what arrives at the boat (ie you order 35% but when the tanks arrive at the boat they might by 34 or 36). On my Galileo, when you press "menu" the default is to take you automatically to the "set gas" function, where you can then immediately set your actual mix and max PO2 based on what you analyze. This is very handy when the mix you get does not match the five preprogrammed mixes.
I am getting a nice bonus this year and will be getting a new computer once that happens.
I am also amused at how all of the things the Sheatwater devotees railed against as frivolous, "gear solutions to skill problems," unreliable, inconvenient, unsuitable, etc, etc, such as AI and rechargeable batteries, are now see as great features now that Shearwater has added them in. But, this is a good thing and glad to see that people can appreciate value added once they experience it.
As for the Perdix, the Teric does create a (pretty short) wishlist:
Thicker fonts on key data (depth, time, NDL, PSI/GTR) to enhance readability even more.
For REC OC mode, on the deco area drop the safety stop display until you actually reach the stop, and increase the size of the NDL and ascent rate displays instead.
Add the GF on surface feature somewhere as an option to configure.
In the bottom gas line, minimize the size of the mix info (I don't need to see that during the dive mode) to give more space for larger font displays of PSI and GTR and allow the "PSI/GTR" combo display to be added as a configurable item..
In Rec OC single tank mode, put in a calculation for GTR that includes the safety stop (even for the "adaptive" safety stop). This is reliably done by many other manufacturers.
Figure some way to get the "floating" compass display as an option on the main screen.
once the compass is displayed, one-press for marking a heading
Finally, and this is my own, some way, in surface screen mode, to immediately (one or two presses) access "set gas" (NOT select gas from a preprogrammed menu). Where I dive, we often switch mixes for different dives, and there is some variability from what you order from the shop and what arrives at the boat (ie you order 35% but when the tanks arrive at the boat they might by 34 or 36). On my Galileo, when you press "menu" the default is to take you automatically to the "set gas" function, where you can then immediately set your actual mix and max PO2 based on what you analyze. This is very handy when the mix you get does not match the five preprogrammed mixes.
I am getting a nice bonus this year and will be getting a new computer once that happens.
I would say that picures don't do the Teric screen full justice - make sure you see one in person side-by-side with a Perdix before you decide!
That said, a Perdix FW update adding Teric upgrades and things you mention above would be nice, but a Perdix 2 with all of that and an OLED screen would be really awesome!
Well, THAT would be nice. If so, then I would add to the wish list the vibrating alarms as well.
I do like that function on my Teric - you can even customize the vibration alerts (length and # of repeats). I'm looking forward to getting my 1st dives with it on a Grand Cayman trip next week!
hammet
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Can I get my Teric alarm to play "Margaritaville" when I'm running low on air?
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