New diver, looking at Suunto D5

[scubadada]

So what other issues do shearwaters have besides the occasional teric battery?

Black screen, 2 broken AI antennas and a few batteries. My seventh Teric will be perfect. Teric owners, have you required repair or replacement service?

 

[Robert H. Diver]

Black screen, 2 broken AI antennas and a few batteries. My seventh Teric will be perfect. Teric owners, have you required repair or replacement service?

We’re those problems strictly with the teric or the perdix/petrel?

 

[BoltSnap]

I was pulling his chain about using a 24 year old dive computer. Does anyone still use a 24 year old computer at home? I didn't think so.

You are comparing a personal computer with Windows vs. a fully functioning dive computer?? If his dive computer is still working and has all of the features he needs, why does he need to buy a new one? What would a new dive computer offer him that his older one doesn't? I have 2 Suunto Stingers and 1 Mosquito and they work perfectly fine, why would I throw them away? I have had these dive computers since late 90's. I use them in my dive school training equipment fleet. We don't use them for deco diving, purely recreational diving.

 

[Saboteur]

The tissue compartments in the model will continue to off gas until the next dive, at which point they will start to on gas again. How the model behaves from that point will depend on the length of the surface interval and the amount of residual inert gases remaining. A shorter interval would likely have the diver facing deco again before too long. The diver has still been decompressing in spite of missing the required stops, just at a rate too rapid to be deemed safe by the model.

I’d like to lower mine on a line for a couple of hours, bring it straight up to the surface then try a repeat “dive” after a short period and see what it does.

 

[scubadada]

We’re those problems strictly with the teric or the perdix/petrel?

Teric

 

[Robert H. Diver]

Teric

Yea that’s why I’d never buy a teric until they fix the issues with it. I don’t think I’ve ever heard about problems with the petrel/perdix/peregrine, although I’m sure someone has some examples.

 

[Divin'Papaw]

You are comparing a personal computer with Windows vs. a fully functioning dive computer?? If his dive computer is still working and has all of the features he needs, why does he need to buy a new one? What would a new dive computer offer him that his older one doesn't? I have 2 Suunto Stingers and 1 Mosquito and they work perfectly fine, why would I throw them away? I have had these dive computers since late 90's. I use them in my dive school training equipment fleet. We don't use them for deco diving, purely recreational diving.

Glad that works for you. Your rant about the Shearwater cult was over the top. Garmin has its rabid fans as well, as does Ratio and even Suunto. A few folks on here addicted to their age old computers seem to be a tad over sensitive.

 

[scubadada]

I happen to like my 13 year old Oceanic VT3, runs off the same transmitter as my Teric

 

[Ski_Lounge]

Other than violating the decompression ceiling for greater than 3 min, what else would result in lock out? I read the entire Core user's manual and could find nothing other than the deco violation resulting in lock out.

Also believe you can't mix free diving and scuba diving during a 24 (?) hour window. It's not mentioned in the manual, but there are threads on SB.

 

[Divin'Papaw]

I happen to like my 13 year old Oceanic VT3, runs off the same transmitter as my Teric

Once I moved to the modern full color
LCD/AMOLED displays on the Shearwaters there was no going back. Other computers have similar screens now, but the old black on gray backlit screens are absolutely horrid in comparison. For those that still use them, you’ve got far better eyesight than I do. I’d upgrade for the display alone, forget about all of the other features of the modern class of dive computers.