Opinions on the Dive Rite Nitek Duo?

[tampausmc]

Just wanted to get the opinions on the Dive Rite Nitek Duo...and if you use it then what types of diving do you use it on......

 

[H2Andy]

the Duo (and the Pro) are good computers. they have two mixes programmable, so you can do light to medium deco

i know several full-cave divers who use the Duo

if you are going to do Trimix, you're going to need a computer that does Helium, which the Duo does not. but for cave diving, it's a great computer

 

[mynamehere]

all of the cave men in my local community have one or two....i think its part of the secret hand shake.

i bought one, too. I have only used it for a nitrox computer, so far. But when i get to deco diving, i will be ready. 8)

 

[dab]

I have used a Duo for several years when diving with 2 gasses and have not had a problem. Easy to program, easy to read, and has done a fine job for me.

 

[loosebits]

Great computer, almost as great as the venerable Nitek 3

 

[gafftape42]

Great computer. Used it in Bikini Atoll in August. 2 deco dives a day for a week and it worked fine.

 

[Hoyden]

I have a Tusa IQ 700 (exactly the same seiko computer as the Duo) that I have used on maybe two hundred dives with 30 or so deco dives - no problems. On dives where I will be using more than two mixes I use it in gauge mode along side a Nitek HE. I also use it on gauge mode to track my profiles as an aquarium diver and have probably two hundred of those. I use the downloader and dump my dives directly into Scubase. I highly recommend this computer for folks looking for something a little more capable than the typical one gas recreational computer.

 

[tampausmc]

Thanks for all the feedback.......

 

[1_T_Submariner]

I had 2 of the Tusa IQ700s they where JUNK! When I got them they didn't register until I got to 20 feet. They told me to reset them. All was well on 3 more short dives in the local quarry. Flew to Key Largo and went out on a boat. My son was wearing one of them and when we got back on the boat he said that it started reading random depths then put him into Deco (on the boat). I guess they had a manufacturing problem. Just my experience. I traded them in on 2 Aeris XR2s. No problems with them.

 

[ianr33]

I have an IQ700. One of the buttons stopped working last weekend. The Duos have had a lot of reliability problems (maybe fixed now????)

Nice computer when it works but I would not buy another one.