Air integrated computers…backup?

[thomasj1107]

For those that dive with air integrated computers…. Do you still have an additional pressure/depth gauge for backup like a console or what?

 

[Marie13]

Recommend you use the search function. There have been many threads on this topic.

 

[brsnow]

Recommend you use the search function. There have been many threads on this topic.

If people used the search function we would only have dandydons death announcements or warnings for new fodder.

 

[BoltSnap]

For those that dive with air integrated computers…. Do you still have an additional pressure/depth gauge for backup like a console or what?

Used to have an AI dive computer in console but that proved to be unreliable (Suunto Cobra, enough said), now I use two hoseless AI dive computers from two different mfg, Ratio and SP.

 

[Blackcrusader]

For those that dive with air integrated computers…. Do you still have an additional pressure/depth gauge for backup like a console or what?

I use a Cressi Digi 1 Console. Shows range ( time left ) to 50 bar from any point on the dive. Use this with my Perdix AI

 

[scubadada]

I just returned from a week on the Belize Aggressor IV. One day, the cylinder pressures on my Oceanic VT3 and Shearwater Teric were not available, both on the same transmitter. I used my SPG and finished the dive, uneventfully. As I suspected, the battery of my transmitter had failed and was replaced, with resumption of normal function. For the VT3, you must poll the batteries to check their condition, I had not done that. However, I never received the low transmitter battery warnings from my Teric, which is very disappointing:

 

[inquis]

I never received the low transmitter battery warnings from my Teric

Disappointing, indeed. Do the dive logs have any indication of a problem?

For the OP, I don't have redundant pressure info and would simply end the dive. Install a new battery or revert to SPG for the next dive.

 

[rongoodman]

After several years of diving with Shearwater AI and never a hitch, the back-up SPG stays in the duffel bag, with the snorkel.

 

[Marie13]

If people used the search function we would only have dandydons death announcements or warnings for new fodder.

<insert beating dead horse>

 

[Shabaday]

At this point it is just whatever you are comfortable with. I have a Perdix AI and I use a backup SPG and has the compass attached. Interestingly my last failure was the mechanical SPG and I continued my dive due to the Perdix AI working fine!