J-Vo
Contributor
Waking this thread up, as I finally had an actual wireless transmitter failure.
I was about 800' up the Hill 400 line in Ginnie on my way to the whale bone. The TX on my right tank lost connection, but I didn't think anything of it until it didn't come back. As I'm side mount I didn't think anything of it and continued my dive timing my gas switches on the 5's rather than switching on pressure. At the end of the dive I checked and confirmed my tanks where within a couple hundred PSI of each other.
Upon investigation, there are not obvious issues with the transmitter other than it will not connect. It does not look to have flooded and changing the battery did not help. I should note, I only have one transmitter that I bought new, and that one is on my wife's single tank regulators. The one that failed is serial number 12,XXX, while the other one I use is serial number 13X,XXX, and my wife's is 12X,XXX. So I surmise that the failed transmitter is an order of magnitude older manufacturing date then the other two and has seen a lot more water time.
This gives me an excuse to buy a yellow transmitter for my side mount pair. Not that I have had any issues with two gray transmitters.
I was about 800' up the Hill 400 line in Ginnie on my way to the whale bone. The TX on my right tank lost connection, but I didn't think anything of it until it didn't come back. As I'm side mount I didn't think anything of it and continued my dive timing my gas switches on the 5's rather than switching on pressure. At the end of the dive I checked and confirmed my tanks where within a couple hundred PSI of each other.
Upon investigation, there are not obvious issues with the transmitter other than it will not connect. It does not look to have flooded and changing the battery did not help. I should note, I only have one transmitter that I bought new, and that one is on my wife's single tank regulators. The one that failed is serial number 12,XXX, while the other one I use is serial number 13X,XXX, and my wife's is 12X,XXX. So I surmise that the failed transmitter is an order of magnitude older manufacturing date then the other two and has seen a lot more water time.
This gives me an excuse to buy a yellow transmitter for my side mount pair. Not that I have had any issues with two gray transmitters.