Diehl
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I bought the Gekko Console and it just looks very confusing for a newbie? What is an easy way of learning it before my class? I just want to be ahead of the game. 
What is an easy way to learn my computer?
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Lemonade
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Has always worked for me...
mstudley
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The manual should do a good job of explaining how to use the thing... no?
If you find it that confusing, go over the computer with your instructor.
If you find it that confusing, go over the computer with your instructor.
SueMermaid
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take the time to sit with the manual and your computer, and run it through the functions the manual describes.
ShakaZulu
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Rent a decompression chamber, jump in there with your instructor and let him guide you through.............
teknitroxdiver
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Read the manual. Go diving.
rab
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And I'll add that reading the manual is not just a one-time thing. I recently re-read my Mosquito manual and discover how to use a function properly. (I.e., setting the default display when in EAN mode -- you have to do it on the surface) But definitely dive it (in fact, if you do read the manual, you'll probably find that it cautions you not to use the computer in a pressurized air environment like a hyperbaric chamber; it's easier to keep out high pressure water than high pressure air).
-Rob
-Rob
bergersau
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Download the Suunto Dive Manager software from their web site. Though you cant interface it with the Gecco, you can set it to simulate the Viper (Almost the same as the Gecco). Then you can simulate dive profiles and scroll through the profile graph and the dive computer display is simulated for you.
Oh Yeah, don't forget to read the manual.
Oh Yeah, don't forget to read the manual.
diver_paula
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Read the manual. However, you may want to use regular old depth and pressure gauges and a watch for your classes. You'll be able to concentrate on the class work and calculations rather than how the computer works. My 2 cents.
Paula (and yes, I use computers now.)
Paula (and yes, I use computers now.)
Read your manual, or come down this way and I'll go through it with you first hand. What shop did you buy it at? They really should have gone over all the basics with you then allowed you to read the more advanced modes. If you want to, please feel free to pm me with any questions you might have, it would benifit me too by giving me some practice with my DiveMaster stuff.
Is your wife getting certified to? Ya'll are always welcome to come dive with me and my hubby (Murphdivers286). We shoot down to the Palm Beach area to dive, sometime off a charter boat, sometimes shore dives. I am usually diving at least once or twice a week even if I'm helping out with a class, your certainly welcome to join the tour. (hubbies a deputy with St Lucie, so he's not able to stay as wet)
Good luck,
Vickie
Is your wife getting certified to? Ya'll are always welcome to come dive with me and my hubby (Murphdivers286). We shoot down to the Palm Beach area to dive, sometime off a charter boat, sometimes shore dives. I am usually diving at least once or twice a week even if I'm helping out with a class, your certainly welcome to join the tour. (hubbies a deputy with St Lucie, so he's not able to stay as wet)
Good luck,
Vickie
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