Barryattle
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Update: the thing stayed dead for days, giving a few seconds of the initial display, then a beep and going dead. I thought maybe the button had broken this time rather than it being the stupid battery change issue. Well, I let it sit for over a week without placing the battery in at all and just put the battery back in. Works just like normal, didn't even need to race through the menu and reset it. So this is clearly another manifestation of the firmware issue with battery changes. Cressi, this is totally unacceptable. You need to fix this for all of us who still own (and maybe use) these DCs. "Works until you need to change the battery, after which you have to ask if you feel lucky today" is unacceptable, even if it will come back to life after a week or two sitting with the battery out (or maybe even in, for all I know). I assume there's no equivalent of a mandatory recall for autos with manufacturing defects, but this firmware fault needs to be treated the same and all owners of these defective devices offered free repair.
Oops - should have reset it when I had the chance. Let it sit with the battery installed, head it beep after a little while, and it's dead again, back to the original behavior. So if this happens, let yours set without battery for a week or two, then put it in and navigate to reset as fast as you can.
Given no response from Cressi here or from the support request on their website and that the second failure occurred during a dive, after changing the battery (i.e., potential risk of injury/death, not just financial), I have filed a report with the CPSC. I'll post if/how they respond.
Oops - should have reset it when I had the chance. Let it sit with the battery installed, head it beep after a little while, and it's dead again, back to the original behavior. So if this happens, let yours set without battery for a week or two, then put it in and navigate to reset as fast as you can.
Given no response from Cressi here or from the support request on their website and that the second failure occurred during a dive, after changing the battery (i.e., potential risk of injury/death, not just financial), I have filed a report with the CPSC. I'll post if/how they respond.