What kind of real world times are people experiencing between charges? Specifically, I am wondering about life as purely a watch. I love the Teric display, but I am debating between getting one now or waiting for the Garmin Descent MK2.
I have 2 Terics. And a Predator controller on my rEvo, a NERD2 (w/Fischer cable), and a Predator (w/Fischer cable) (backup for the NERD2). In the past, I have also had a Petrel 2 and a Perdix AI.
I took my Terics on a weeklong liveaboard in the Bahamas last summer. I used one and had the other one there just as backup, in case the primary died.
I started the week with the them both fully charged. We were generally doing 4 or 5 dives a day (depending on whether we did a night dive). After the 3rd day of diving (IIRC), my Teric was down enough that I could tell I would need to charge it before the week was over, so I went ahead and charged it that one night, and that was it for the week.
When I got the first Teric, I tested wearing it all day as a watch (no diving). I think, again, if I recall correctly, that I could go about 2 days (50 hours) with the screen on all the time (except for its auto-shutoff while I was sleeping), using it as a watch before it needed to be charged.
All that said, my SOP is to have my phone charger next to wherever I sleep and to set my phone in the (wireless) charger every night. If I'm on a dive trip, adding the Teric charging cradle next to the phone charger and topping it up every night is really perfectly easy and fine - and ensures I won't have it die during a dive day, ever. Not even if I forget to charge it one night and have to dive 2 days in a row without charging.
Zef...
Over priced/over-hyped/bug ridden...
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What does it tell you when you are using any company's service department with that level of frequency that you get to know everyone there...not a product I'd want anything to do with...
But...please feel free to make your own choice/decision...and to proceed as you see fit...
W...
Warren,
What bugs?
The only consistent I have seen is people with battery issues. I am actually in the process of sending my first Teric off now for that. It no longer holds a charge like it should. And, really, I can probably really only say that for certain because I have 2, so I can compare them. Without the 2nd one, I suspect that I would just be using the one and thinking "that's how it is." Because, even like it is, it still holds a charge PLENTY long enough to charge it fully and dive it for a couple of days.
So, though it is a "problem", since it's not a problem that would cause me to ever miss any dives or thumb any dives - unless I just really screwed on keeping it charged - I really don't see it as a big deal. I send it off, they fix it or replace at no charge, and send it back. I have not and will not miss any dives or have any dives cut short.
Also, I am on a first-name basis with the Shearwater repair department. And, normally, I would agree with your sentiment on that. However, my familiarity with them is not any fault of Shearwater's. It is because the first time I jumped in the water with my rEvo, I did not have the battery compartment cover on the Predator controller screwed down all the way and it flooded. But, I am happy to report that the "repair department" fixed it to like-new for a very reasonable (in my opinion) price and had it back to me in 2 weeks. And we're now on a first-name basis because they are just that friendly!
Lex...
I have never...ever...experienced a fault of any type with my chosen brand of DC...and I've been diving with what could be termed as ''modern'' dive computers since 2006...
As far as Shearwater ''experience''...with all the fault concerns that have been reported as it relates to the TERIC...as close a relationship I want to have is...''once told...twice shy...or how about...''you've been warned''...
Again, we all know about some battery issues. What other elements are there in your assessment as "fault-ridden"?
I gather that the bugs you are referring to are all things that you have no personal experience with, correct? Just things that you read on the Internet?
I'm also curious, in general, how many people don't like the Teric because of its screen size - and have actually dived it?
I saw a post or two in this thread from people who said they had a Teric and sold it because they prefer the Perdix. But, I saw a LOT of posts dismissing the Teric for its screen size. If you were one of those, have you actually dived one? And if you had a Teric and sold it to buy a Perdix, did you ever dive a Teric and a Perdix at the same time?
I owned a Perdix AI and my first Teric at the same time, for a while. I dived them both together a number of times.
I wear reading glasses in the +2 - +2.5 range (I have numerous pairs, all over the house).
I run my Terics in Normal mode (versus Big), so they have 4 rows of info on the screen.
I do not have corrective lenses of any type in any of my masks (any more - I used to before well before I got the first Teric).
I sold the Perdix AI and bought a 2nd Teric for several reasons, but also because I did not find the Perdix to be MORE readable than the Teric. Maybe, AS readable. Meaning, with no reader lenses in my mask, I can/could read either one - sometimes with a bit of squinting and arm-stretching - but nothing major. I agree with a previous poster that said the OLED screen on the Teric makes it more readable than the LCD screen on a Perdix. That also makes me really appreciate the OLED screens on my Predators, but that is neither here nor there.