D4 changing the battery yourself ?

[Joe diver]

Dose anyone have and info on how to change the battery on a suunto D4 by yourself. I have the seen the pics. of the D9 and D6 but not the D4.

 

[grouperman]

Joe,

Did you ever get any info on this procedure? I saw on another forum that someone had changed the battery on the d4 but could not get any reply from the person. I'd like to know if you did it yourself or sent it to the service center.

grouperman

 

[Arturo]

I have just changed yesterday a client´s D4 battery. Is is not as the Stinger (front open) nor as the D6 or D9. It does open from the rear, but rather than using a special key to turn the back, first you have to unscrew to small screws at 180° apart. After doing that, you carefully pry open the back hacht and ... voila... there is sitting the CR 2450 battery you have to change. Replace it and close back the hatch using the small screws. What really surprised me was to find no sealing gasket or "o" ring. Apparently the seal is performed directly by the rear hacht against the wedge shaped frame. I tested it to 100 meters and no leaking. By the way, this particular creature is only rated to 100 meters, as you can see from the attached photos. The legend in the photos is in spanish (sorry for that), and I forgot to take one showing the uncovered battery. Hope this give you guys a better idea as how to proceed.

 

[BlueMarlin01]

Hello,

Any photo showing the uncovered battery ??

Thanks

 

[Arturo]

No, sorry about that. But I did record the battery in my repair log as a CR2450, 3Volt. A fairly common battery that you can get in Radio Shack for about US$ 3.50.