Which Bottom Timer do you use and where did you find it?

[DIR-Atlanta]

I have seen it discussed a few times but with no final answer.....has anyone come up with a way to replace the battery in the uwatec/oms/whatever bottom timers?

As far as I know it's not replaceable - when the battery dies you have to buy a whole new unit.

 

[cmalinowski]

As far as I know it's not replaceable - when the battery dies you have to buy a whole new unit.

Wow, that's an expensive battery

 

[cool_hardware52]

Wow, that's an expensive battery

That's the beauty of the Digital BT. No battery door. No battery dooor Oring to fail.

10 year life. 100 dives a year = 1000 dives

~$150 / 1000 = .15 per dive. Even if you dive 1/2 or 1/4 as much that's pretty cheap.


Tobin

 

[amascuba]

Mac compatability was one of the reasons I got mine, but I still haven't found the "right" dongle.

If you could share a product and a place to get it, that'd be GREAT. I'd love to finally put that old Dell to rest, there's only one reason it's still plugged in.

Thanks in advance.

I got my IRda reader from usbgear.com

http://www.usbgear.com/computer_cable_details.cfm?sku=USBG-FLEXIR&cats=139&catid=139

 

[Jasonmh]

I got my IRda reader from usbgear.com

http://www.usbgear.com/computer_cable_details.cfm?sku=USBG-FLEXIR&cats=139&catid=139

Hey Amascuba,
Does this reader work with your Aladin Tec wrist?
Thanks,
Jason

 

[amascuba]

Hey Amascuba,
Does this reader work with your Aladin Tec wrist?
Thanks,
Jason

Sure does! As far as I can tell the it's just a standard infrared communications port on the TEC. I'll bring my laptop out with my irda reader to the Blue Hole next time so that we can play around with it if you would like.

 

[Jasonmh]

Sure does! As far as I can tell the it's just a standard infrared communications port on the TEC. I'll bring my laptop out with my irda reader to the Blue Hole next time so that we can play around with it if you would like.

cool, cause I have a tec now, but hadn't picked up the IRDA/cable yet.

 

[amascuba]

cool, cause I have a tec now, but hadn't picked up the IRDA/cable yet.

Yes, and the scubapro version is severely overpriced. I'd rather pay $16 + shipping than $50+ for one.

 

[cmalinowski]

My ideal unit would display depth and time (seconds included) of course in fairly large numbers, and maybe temperature, but in addition it would have a stop watch feature and depth averaging which could be restarted by pushing a button, dive recording for uploads, backlight and it would be about the size of the Timex Helix dive watch and work to at least 200m, but the deeper the better. Also, you should be able to choose imperial or metric units. I think the Aladin Tec is the closest you can get to that right now and at a little over $300 it's still semi-reasonable given what other units out there cost. What do you think?

wow, it looks like the tec does this stuff. I'm such a lemming I'm ready to pull the trigger. Looking at the software, it seems to be a great BT. Plus, if David R reallly did help design, I'm impressed. I met david and will send him and email to ask for sure, but if true, I trust him. Period.

Chris
PS: been drinking all day. But was checking out aladin tec before inebriation.

 

[neophyte]

IRWave USB interface - made by Hoya.

http://www.redlionsports.co.uk/item--iRwave-USB-2-0-IrDA-Interface--Polarusb
http://www.irwave.com.tw/ProductShow.asp?Pno=IR721&CatalogNo=0001

I was told to "make sure not to get a Sigmatel 4200-based device - they won't work on newer Macs," so I'll pass along this snippet of info...

Thanks so much Vie. The guy at CompUSA swore the one I bought would work with my G5 (it's now on the Dell, so not a total loss, but close) and the folks at the Apple store couldn't figure out why I'd want one and had no recommendation.

Thanks again.