Anyone had Computer Failure

[av8er23]

Has anyone ever had a computer fail during a dive?

 

[teknitroxdiver]

I came home and my computer had a BSOD on the screen...


other than that, nope.

 

[RICHinNC]

Nope, and if I did, no big deal. I dive with a spare.

 

[teknitroxdiver]

Nope, and if I did, no big deal. I dive with a spare.

Me too...it's kinda greyish, fleshy, and fits neatly between my ears. Almost like it was designed to go there.... (Imagine that!!!)

 

[Charlie99]

Has anyone ever had a computer fail during a dive?

By failing to turn on my computer until starting my descent I managed to get it to read 10' shallow for one dive.

I have loaned my spare computer out a half dozen times to divers whose computer batteries had died. IIRC, in each case the computer declared itself dead upon initial startup/battery check on the surface.

I have seen multiple cases where air integrated computers, or more commonly, the transmitter unit on the reg, refused to turn on due to low battery. Again, on the surface. I don't have one, but just judging from failures observed during many charter boat rides, it seems that air integrated computers are particularly prone to battery failure.

While they are undoubtably computers out there that actually failed during the dive, the overwhelming problem I've seen is simply dead batteries.

So far, simply replacing the battery within the next 20 dives or so after the low battery warning has activated has kept me from every having a battery failure.



Charlie

 

[divenutny]

Has anyone ever had a computer fail during a dive?

One failure so far, hopefully it will not happen again. Computer worked great on the surface and down to roughly 30 feet. On the bottom at 55, no screen. When I got up to 30 feet, screen returned. I was not comfortable diving without knowing my air consumption, (Computer was air intergrated) so I aborted my dive. I needed to replace the battery, however, the computer did not indicate the battery was low. Air Temp was 85, surface temp 70, bottom temp 55.

I had a friend with a same model air intergrated computer. It failed twice after seceral hundred dives. Flooded both times. He will not use air integrated computers anymore. I'm thinking the same way when it is time to upgrade. I will miss the air consumption rates when I dive over 100 ft, which it not that often.

Other computer failures I have seen was operator error related. Forgot to turn them on before the dive.

Hope this answers your questions - Tom

 

[Tassie_Rohan]

Yep -

My first Mares surveyor froze up for 10 minutes during one dive then started giving me a depth of 120 meters! It then indicated a 1 minute stop at 3 meters for the said depths deco obligations.....

Sent it back. Second one worked fine except running out of batteries either mid dive or more commonly between dives (it uses user replaceable AAA batterys).

So yep - computers can fail, and their batteries tend to go flat just when you need them....


Cheers,
Rohan.

 

[pdoege]

It was caused by an o-ring failure in the battery compartment.

I bailed out on my backup and would have gone to tables if the backup failed.

Peter

 

[WaterDawg]

I had a US divers scan 4 and sold it to my dive buddy on his second dive w/ it it bit the bullet. This was an air integrated comp and sfter it died, it still gave tank pressure info...wierd! But mine never has although once the batts got really low and was almost impossible to read.

 

[Web Monkey]

He might want to try a non-user-servicable model, which is much more water-tight.

The Uwatec Smart-Com is pretty much impossible to flood, unless you use tools, or destroy it.

The down-side is that it requires a trip back to the factory to replace the battery, the up-side is that the battery is free, and lasts almost forever (Mine is two years old and is still almost full, with 3-4 dives/week.

Terry

I had a friend with a same model air intergrated computer. It failed twice after seceral hundred dives. Flooded both times. He will not use air integrated computers anymore. I'm thinking the same way when it is time to upgrade. I will miss the air consumption rates when I dive over 100 ft, which it not that often.

Other computer failures I have seen was operator error related. Forgot to turn them on before the dive.

Hope this answers your questions - Tom