Best and cheap Dive Computer

[Esprise Me]

I know you're joking, but one tip my Nitrox instructor gave me for using a one-button computer is to always leave it on the Nitrox setting but set it to 21% when diving air to have one less menu to navigate when switching.

 

[Kevin Floyd]

Simple: when you fill your tanks, you fill them with EAN21.

that’s what you have to do with the aqualung I300 if you dive Nitrox and then switch to air within 24 hrs

 

[dmaziuk]

I know you're joking, but one tip my Nitrox instructor gave me for using a one-button computer is to always leave it on the Nitrox setting but set it to 21% when diving air to have one less menu to navigate when switching.

So the interesting (and totally OT of course) question there is will setting a particular computer to 21% actually count as air, or as 22% nitrox?

 

[Esprise Me]

@dmaziuk good question. I should also check and see if it gives me a different MOD when I do that.

 

[rhwestfall]

Air is "Nitrox", it is 21% oxygen....

Nitrox refers to a mixture of Oxygen and Nitrogen as the primary components (trace other elements).

YMMV

 

[Esprise Me]

Who are you telling this to?

 

[rhwestfall]

Who are you telling this to?

response to post #23...

 

[Esprise Me]

I'm pretty sure he knows. The question is whether the computer treats them the same. We had a thread on this: Cressi Leonardo - MOD vs PO2 discrepancy

 

[rhwestfall]

agree, but it is silly (and a poor software code) that has to treat Nitrox as something different from "air"....

Let the folks that find this engage their brains....

 

[greeniguana]

The Crest CR4 is a reasonably priced option in Asia.

https://www.crestdiving.com/dive-computer