Oceanic VT Pro 3 Failure @ depth

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Hello:
I was diving with my Oceanic VT PRO 3 and ran into a problem wondering if this has happened to anyone else. At around 50 feet I started to get some errors like High PO2 and Too DEEP. I was diving 32% nittrox . Water temp 82. Checking my other Oceanic Computer (VT PRO) and I had a depth of 50 feet; this is my back up computer which I carry on as well on the dive.

On the surface I opened the computer (VT PRO 3.1). No sign of water intrusion. Inserting new battery and I was getting all sort of erroneus messages. 18 hours later the display went dead and since then, I have not been able to get to computer to turn on at all.

I think the computer is toast. It has about 50 dives on it. I am curious to see if anyone else has had a similar problem and if so what they did with it? And how about oceanic customer service and tech support.

Thank you for your insights.

 

[NCadiver]

Since you did say, Try page 13 of your manual. Being on for that amount of time may have killed the battery.

 

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Since you did say, Try page 13 of your manual. Being on for that amount of time may have killed the battery.

Well, it went to Oceanic for the $160 refurbishing. I believe the circuit board is bad.

 

[Water Boy76]

Well, it went to Oceanic for the $160 refurbishing. I believe the circuit board is bad.

Pay refurbishing fee after only 50 dives on a computer. Ouch.
I've been told to stay away from Oceanic computers. Maybe this is why?

 

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I appreciate your comment Water Boy76. I do not think though that this is common occurence. I have a 20 year old Oceanic Data trans plus fully functional plus a VT Pro which I use as a back up. They have hundreds of dives on them. Hopefully this is a fluke but I loose in having to pay for repairs.

 

[Water Boy76]

I want to like Oceanic Computers because I think they have some nice one's.
But I have friends that have had trouble with thier Atom's and Prop Plus. The Atom's work they just are quirky. The Pro Plus flooded.
I dive a Hollis which is an Oceanic computer and its been great, no trouble. But I've only owned for a year.

 

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I want to like Oceanic Computers because I think they have some nice one's.
But I have friends that have had trouble with thier Atom's and Prop Plus. The Atom's work they just are quirky. The Pro Plus flooded.
I dive a Hollis which is an Oceanic computer and its been great, no trouble. But I've only owned for a year.

I understand and appreciate the comment.