Diver9214
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I just baught an Orca Pilot EAN/Audio Computer at a flea market...but it came with no instructions..any ideas?
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truck1
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Try an LDS that sells them or contact the MAnufacturer.They might be able to help you out.
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No one sells them anymore and the manufacturer is long gone. I'll check my file and see if I have an instruction sheet that I can copy.
I'm considering getting one and would like to know how you like it. You can get the manual here...
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My husband and I have been diving Orca Pilots for about 7 years. You don't have the benefit of being able to download any information to your PC but if that's not a big deal to you it's a nice little computer. The "tap switch" to turn the light on is something I've never figured out how to use; you must really have to whack the thing to get the lights to come on because I've tried tapping fairly hard and can't get them to come on.
Sometimes the computer will continue to dive after you're out of the water. You need to change the batteries if it starts doing this after diving in fresh water, you need to soak it in fresh water if it's acting weird after a salt water dive and change the batteries if soaking doesn't make it act normal.
Ber :lilbunny:
Sometimes the computer will continue to dive after you're out of the water. You need to change the batteries if it starts doing this after diving in fresh water, you need to soak it in fresh water if it's acting weird after a salt water dive and change the batteries if soaking doesn't make it act normal.
Ber :lilbunny:
One more thing, check the date on the batteries that are in it. The batteries in ours expired a year before we bought the computers but we still got 3 years of use out of them before they went haywire.
When we bought our computers they came with a manual but the manual didn't go with that computer. The guy we bought them from gave us a "handout" of sorts that was the real manual for the computer. I'm sure it's around here somewhere but unfortunately right now I don't have time to go searching for it.
Ber :lilbunny:
When we bought our computers they came with a manual but the manual didn't go with that computer. The guy we bought them from gave us a "handout" of sorts that was the real manual for the computer. I'm sure it's around here somewhere but unfortunately right now I don't have time to go searching for it.
Ber :lilbunny:
Thanks for the Orca Pilot info! I'm considering buying one sight unseen. What type of battery does it use? How often does it contnue to "dive" on the surface? Do both of yours do that? Is the soaking method suggested in the manual or something you figured out?
I don't remember what it's called but it looks like a half-AA battery, definitely something that can be hard to find. If you have a Batteries Plus near you they usually have them in stock. Batteries are user changeable which is nice but you do have to be careful.
Almost any time we're doing more than two or three dives in salt water they do it and they occasionally act up in fresh water. Both were doing it this weekend in Catalina and even the soaking wasn't working to make hubby's stop diving. The computer changes depths, violates ascent rates and runs the clock so not only is it annoying it's comical.
Soaking was something we figured out. We have velcro straps on ours and that seems to make things worse because the velcro doesn't dry very fast. Removing the strap was the only way to make hubby's stop diving this weekend. You might want to stick with the strap that comes with it. I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to dive on its own when you aren't in the water. It will complete your dive and start another one...weird. These batteries were just put in this summer so it has to be the salt causing electrical issues.
Ber :lilbunny:
Almost any time we're doing more than two or three dives in salt water they do it and they occasionally act up in fresh water. Both were doing it this weekend in Catalina and even the soaking wasn't working to make hubby's stop diving. The computer changes depths, violates ascent rates and runs the clock so not only is it annoying it's comical.
Soaking was something we figured out. We have velcro straps on ours and that seems to make things worse because the velcro doesn't dry very fast. Removing the strap was the only way to make hubby's stop diving this weekend. You might want to stick with the strap that comes with it. I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to dive on its own when you aren't in the water. It will complete your dive and start another one...weird. These batteries were just put in this summer so it has to be the salt causing electrical issues.
Ber :lilbunny:
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I just baught an Orca Pilot EAN/Audio Computer at a flea market...but it came with no instructions..any ideas?
I have two pilot dive computers. And i have the books. I wood be happy to make you a copy. Rod K.
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