Bottom Timer which one?

[formula1mb@aol.com]

When I played with one, it still had a bottom timer option so they might be wrong. There's an air option, nitrox option, and bottom timer option. I haven't actually used it but I know it does have the feature.

 

[davetowz]

I run a uwatec as a backup...often as my only "computer" depending on the profile. I will say that my last dive in the Cooper river I was thinking how awesome OLED would be. This may be my next BT. anyone want to buy an Uwatec 330 with about 40 dives on it

 

[HenrikBP]

I went through a similar search about a year ago. At the time, I only found the Suunto Vytec and the Tec2g had seconds on the stopwatch function - this may have changed now of course. Of those 2 I found the Vytec easier to read - I use reading glasses - even with stick-on gauge readers.

I bought a Xen in March and really like the display in general, but the seconds are too small for me to read easily/quickly. I've made suggestions to LiquiVision for a screen layout for those of us with less than stellar near vision

Henrik

 

[Griffo]

So the Vytec no longer has seconds display :-(

The Mares Puck appears to show the bottom time in m:ss according to the manual, although I do wonder what happens at 60mins. I guess the range is real limited then

 

[Rainer]

Just buy a used one. I got my last one for less than $250.

So the Vytec no longer has seconds display :-(

The Mares Puck appears to show the bottom time in m:ss according to the manual, although I do wonder what happens at 60mins. I guess the range is real limited then

 

[kdupreez]

+1 on the Xen.

it has a stop watch and has "alternate" display modes that make the seconds quite big.

also, accessing the stop watch is incredibly easy.. you tap it on the left side 3 times to directly enable the special "stop watch" menu and one more tap stars its.. and when you want to reset, do the same..

I can start/reset the stop watch during a deco stop very very easy, even with thick dry gloves.

And nothing beats a big readable OLED color display.. (and colors are configurable too!!)

 

[vmsgeek]

How about a $30 Casio watch, water resistant to 200 meters, in the stopwatch mode?

 

[formula1mb@aol.com]

Here's the manual I found online. Talks about the bottom timer mode on pages 11-12: http://www.mares.com/common/__/2770.3c36b2b4.dl

I was getting excited for a minute, but the non-upgradeable version appears to NOT have the stopwatch function acfording to the Mares Website. But the manual says it does... Why would they remove the stopwatch funciton from the non-air integrated model, and have it in the air-integrated model??

"Stopwatch: No"

 

[vioch]

Try to look at Ukraine version of OSTC MK2(2N) computer with fully functional bottom timer for the price of XEN - Seawooch MK2.
MK2(2N) has GNU General Public License, so Ukraine version is fully compartable with OSTC.

 

[Griffo]

Thanks. That's a sweet looking unit! Didn't know they existed.