Oceanic Atom battery is low ALREADY!

[algoman]

How is your atom (2E) doing now? no more probs with the battery?

Mine's ok, but My dealer contacted me to change it again with a brand new (hope so) 2F one.

As of today my 2E worked perfectly with 4 dives all No Deco.

Cheers

 

[Tamas]

Mine's ok, but My dealer contacted me to change it again with a brand new (hope so) 2F one.

As of today my 2E worked perfectly with 4 dives all No Deco.

Cheers

How do you tell the revision number?

 

[UndrWatrDan]

How do you tell the revision number?

Depressing the A and S buttons simultaneously for 8 seconds while in Surface Mode will access a Serial Number screen. The bottom line has the revision number. Mine says r2f. (The A button is the lower left button and the S button is the upper right.)

 

[Tamas]

Depressing the A and S buttons simultaneously for 8 seconds while in Surface Mode will access a Serial Number screen. The bottom line has the revision number. Mine says r2f. (The A button is the lower left button and the S button is the upper right.)

R2F here as well!

 

[cmalinowski]

hmmmm... r2d here. I wonder what problems that may have.

 

[Vie]

Ok, I just received my new Atom—it is an r2F. Hope fully I will get to dive with it soon. The Atoms are now shipped in a “sleep” mode and the battery now have a shelf life of around 7 years when the Atom is “sleeping.”

 

[dir_bum]

OK, after only three months and seven hours of dive time, my second Atom (what happened to my first Atom? See http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=46554&page=4&pp=10) is already showing the “low battery” symbol. I hardly ever use the Backlight and my LDS suspects that downloading data to OceanLog may have contributed to the power drain (I have my Atom set on a 2-second sampling interval which means that I have to download data after every one or two dive).

Has anyone else had this power drain issue?

I had 2 friends that has the same issue with the Atom. They brought it back to the LDS and exchange for 3 times. With the same problem. Finally, they were sick of it and replace it with a Uwatec computer.
Talk to your LDS, they should be able to return it to Oceanic and give you full credit for that.

 

[Vie]

I had 2 friends that has the same issue with the Atom. They brought it back to the LDS and exchange for 3 times. With the same problem. Finally, they were sick of it and replace it with a Uwatec computer.
Talk to your LDS, they should be able to return it to Oceanic and give you full credit for that.

Thanks for the suggestion. I now have an r2F Atom and am waiting to see how it will work out. I also have a Cochran Commander (1FO2) as a back-up. To be honest, I have yet to find a dive computer that I really like—have used a couple of Suuntos and a few UWATEC over the years, as well as a Cochran Gemini. The Cochran Commander is pretty close to my ideal, although it is, IHMO, extremely aggressive and a drag to use sometimes (having to use a coin and all that; not to mention that not every type of coin works...).

 

[AlexRodriguez]

I now have an r2F Atom and am waiting to see how it will work out.

How is that version working out? I am looking at getting a replacement and I want to request the specific version.

Alex

 

[Vie]

How is that version working out?

Still have not dived with mine yet!