Do dive computers require annual inspections?

[scubafanatic]

Ramsy make sure you give him a copy of your receipt so when they send it to aqualung they will see that it is under warranty. I would not give him my only copy.

When they do an annual service they change the o-ring, recalibrate, update the software and pressure check the computer I forgot and put a new battery in as well.

a LDS doesn't have the ability to 'recalibrate' anything, and in all my 9 yrs of diving I have only encountered ONE dive shop with a "pressure pot" (which the LDS had homemade) in which a dive computer could be 'pressure checked'....so that's either BS or you're saying the LDS is actually shipping the computer back to the manufacturer to perform this 'annual'.

 

[Scared Silly]

May I kindly suggest two things:

First, contact AquaLung/Suunto and report to them what your exchange was at Sport Chalet. Next, I would go contact Sport Chalet corporate office and report to them what your exchange was with Dave.

As for what could be done during an inspection - the best you are going to get is a battery change which for Suunto includes a new oring and a few other bits.

Also to my knowledge Suunto does not do any software updates for any of their computers. If an update is required it is done via a recall which IIRC was done on the D9???

 

[NCadiver]

a LDS doesn't have the ability to 'recalibrate' anything, and in all my 9 yrs of diving I have only encountered ONE dive shop with a "pressure pot" (which the LDS had homemade) in which a dive computer could be 'pressure checked'....so that's either BS or you're saying the LDS is actually shipping the computer back to the manufacturer to perform this 'annual'.

What I said is for a annual service which is different then a annual inspection. An annual inspection checks the depth and pre-dive plan and changes the battery.
And there are five dive centers that and do an annual service other than aqualung.

 

[MarineResearch]

Guys, be nice. We all know Dave normally works in the bicycle department and only fills in at the SCUBA department at lunch time.

 

[natew]

Once again the LDS shoots itself in the foot......

I don't know about anyone else but I don't exactly consider sport chalet to be an LDS. To me, they are a sporting goods store that happens to carry a somewhat limited selection of dive gear.

 

[Downing]

Never heard of them, but that explains a lot.