CAPTAIN SINBAD
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Hello ... Can Suunto Zoop computer be turned to work as a simple bottom timer/depth gauge? The manual says that is has only air and nitrox modes. Can anyone please tell me how to turn it into a bottom timer? Thanks.
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currier
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Suunto may remove this from their sub-forum, but heres a go ...
Yes, you can. You have to bend it. Put the computer into deco then surface it without clearing. Itll lock you out ie. provide no NDL, track O2, give SS time, etc. It WILL continue to give you depth, time (in whole mins.), and ascent rate violation warning.
* * note * * Best not to attach a diver to it who IS doing what the comp THINKS he is doing.
1) Wear it on the first dive of a series of tech dives. It thinks you use your backgas your entire time, yet here youre switching to 50% and 100%. Complete your dive following YOUR deco schedule and listen to it bitch and moan from 3m to surface. Once out of the water itll shut up.
Or for more fun
2) Deposit it on the bottom. Finish up your dive and enjoy your surface interval. Return to it a few hours later, attach it to an SMB, and send it crying to the surface!
Itll remain in error mode for 48 hours, and this clock will restart after each subsequent dive. Ive used my Gekko as a backup in this mode for two whole weeks.
Yes, you can. You have to bend it. Put the computer into deco then surface it without clearing. Itll lock you out ie. provide no NDL, track O2, give SS time, etc. It WILL continue to give you depth, time (in whole mins.), and ascent rate violation warning.
* * note * * Best not to attach a diver to it who IS doing what the comp THINKS he is doing.
1) Wear it on the first dive of a series of tech dives. It thinks you use your backgas your entire time, yet here youre switching to 50% and 100%. Complete your dive following YOUR deco schedule and listen to it bitch and moan from 3m to surface. Once out of the water itll shut up.
Or for more fun
2) Deposit it on the bottom. Finish up your dive and enjoy your surface interval. Return to it a few hours later, attach it to an SMB, and send it crying to the surface!
Itll remain in error mode for 48 hours, and this clock will restart after each subsequent dive. Ive used my Gekko as a backup in this mode for two whole weeks.
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nope, and that is the number 1 reason that I try to tell people to avoid them. As a single gas nitrox computer with no gauge mode, if you go anywhere past basic recreational diving, it becomes a paperweight.
elgoog
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I read on this forum that you can "bend" it and put it in error mode which then basically makes it a bottom timer for 48hr.
From the manual, it looks like it does this if you do a deco dive and then ignore the ascent schedule it gives you (this would only work if your calculated deco schedule is shorter than what the Zoop wants you to do).
From the manual, it looks like it does this if you do a deco dive and then ignore the ascent schedule it gives you (this would only work if your calculated deco schedule is shorter than what the Zoop wants you to do).
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I used to own a Zoop but was stolen and have never tried the "bending" method .
If the gauge mode resets itself after 48 hours, you are better off getting a D4i (you can "bend" it whilst diving in Free Dive mode for more than 10 minutes). This saves you the hassle to try "bend" your Zoop on the first dive of each of your dive trip.
If the gauge mode resets itself after 48 hours, you are better off getting a D4i (you can "bend" it whilst diving in Free Dive mode for more than 10 minutes). This saves you the hassle to try "bend" your Zoop on the first dive of each of your dive trip.
I actually typed "bend it" and almost hit the post button yesterday. I figured Suunto probably wouldn't want that info in their forum so I withheld. However, it does work.
Chicken SCUBA
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Patrickwk,
Pardon my ignorance but what is the point of pre-bending the Zoop? Why would you not just dive it like normal until it bends itself. Unless you had some super technical and complicated dive coming up where really don't want the distractions, I don't see the point. Let it give you deco info like normal and ignore it.
Captain Sinbad,
FYI the new ZOOP NOVOs should be out soon and they are supposed to have gauge mode.
Pardon my ignorance but what is the point of pre-bending the Zoop? Why would you not just dive it like normal until it bends itself. Unless you had some super technical and complicated dive coming up where really don't want the distractions, I don't see the point. Let it give you deco info like normal and ignore it.
Captain Sinbad,
FYI the new ZOOP NOVOs should be out soon and they are supposed to have gauge mode.
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