Do my computers have altitude sickness?

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jd950

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After my son's Atom 2.0 decided to permanently set it self for EL2, I sent it in for repair and we received a replacement. Oddly, the replacement is reading EL 2 at home, and we live at about 5000' My family has several Oceanic and Aeris computers and one Elite T3 puts us at EL6, another fluctuates between EL6 and EL7, depending, I suppose on the barometric pressure, and a Geo has us at EL4.

I suppose as long as they all go to sea level when we go to dive it doesn't matter, but it is a little discomforting. I guess if I dove at altitude I would have to just use altitude adjusted tables. Kind of makes me wish they required manual input of the diving altitude.

When we travel we always take computers in carry-ons to avoid any extreme pressure/temperature exposure.

Anyway, what should they show at around 5000-5200'?
 
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