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Can anyone explain why dive computers will force a 24 hour wait to switch to air after diving Nitrox?
Why are computers programed to force continued use of Nitrox when there is no reason to do so? Why would they allow a 21% mix when that is effectively the same thing?
This is more of the same as has been said by others. It makes me wonder what the benefits are for those particular DCs of running the Air portion of the program rather than the Nitrox portion of the program. I'd be surprised to learn that the Nitrox calcs are so much more taxing that there is a battery life hit. Why not make everything Nitrox behind the scenes."Jim Clymer, of Suunto's Technical Department, recommends setting the Nitrox mode for 21 percent, the equivalent of air."
The PO2 display that undercurrent.org refers to is probably the oxygen accumulation or the so-called oxygen clock.
It's possible, but not likely, that the reason for not having the ability to switch from EAN to air is due to programming constraints. ....
How does it matter? Do you think air is not the same as 21% Nitrox?Now my electronic dive log is wrong because it shows a lot of Nitrox dives which are recorded as 21% Nitrox when they were in air.
How does it matter? Do you think air is not the same as 21% Nitrox?
I think this is the big question. To the OP, you DO realize 21% nitrox is the same as air right? There’s nothing wrong with your log...How does it matter? Do you think air is not the same as 21% Nitrox?
I am an engineer and a scientist, and not all engineers are quite so pedantic. Precision is the enemy of close enough.I realize that Nitrox 21% is air, hence the title of the thread.
When I want to say get a count of Nitrox dives the log is incorrect. I am an engineer, accuracy is important to me and calling an air dive as Nitrox 21% is inaccurate.