Teric owners, have you required repair or replacement service?

[brsnow]

Without any breakthroughs in Li-ion technology between then and now, new batteries will do better if the original ones came from a "bad batch" and the new ones come from a "good batch".

There's a number of charge-discharge cycles they are rated for, those are typically guesstimated for "slow" charging, and fast-charging will reduce it. Possibly drastically. Reducing the drain by turning things off will reduce the number of charge-discharge cycles and extend their life -- in "wall clock" time, not in the number of charge cycles.

Physical size of the battery matters and you shouldn't expect miracles from a watch-sized one.

Sorry.

Why do the garmin descents not have the same issues?

 

[scubadada]

Why do the garmin descents not have the same issues?

That's a good question. I've not heard of similar problems in the Tern/Tern TX either. In fact, I've not heard of similar problems in other watch form dive computers with rechargeable batteries.

I'm quite interested in the nearly half of respondents to this poll who have not required repair or replacement of their Teric. If you are one of those individuals, could you please reply with some additional information such as age of your computer, use and recharge pattern, current battery performance.

 

[dmaziuk]

Why do the garmin descents not have the same issues?

Sez who? This is a teric thread not a descent thread, that may be why people don't complain about their descents here.

On a serious note, garmin's been making "fitness watches" for some time, I expect they have a bit more experience designing them and sourcing components and stuff, than shearwater did when they made teric.

 

[brsnow]

Sez who? This is a teric thread not a descent thread, that may be why people don't complain about their descents here.

On a serious note, garmin's been making "fitness watches" for some time, I expect they have a bit more experience designing them and sourcing components and stuff, than shearwater did when they made teric.

I have owned a few Teric’s and a few Garmin. There is a large difference in battery time.

 

[inquis]

I'm quite interested in the nearly half of respondents to this poll who have not required repair or replacement of their Teric.

I have two, aged 4.9 and 4.5 years. The newer one is used more often (~ 2-5 days per month), so it usually doesn't need charging outside of "friday night prep" sessions. (I switched to CCR a little over a year ago and only use one of them.) I throw the older one on the charger monthly, charging nominally from 35% (though sometimes from 20% if I ignore the reminder) to 65%. The last time I measured the average, non-diving discharge rate, they were at 1.2% and 0.5% per day. Occasionally I check the 48 hr drop from 100%, but neither reaches the 92% threshold.

On longer trips, I typically dive 3-4 hrs daily for 3 to 6 days: both at perhaps 15% per hr consumption rate using two transmitters, floating compass, and high brightness. I charge either nightly (along with my phone and torch batteries) or every other night. (The 6-day trips are OC cave diving, so both are used.)

Arguably, I should have the older one serviced, but I just don't see the need.