This thread has taught me one thing: If you're a cheap assed diver, then hoseless AI is not for you!
Between the October Dive Show at the NEC and Christmas Suunto usually bundle transmitters with the AI capable computers at no extra cost.
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This thread has taught me one thing: If you're a cheap assed diver, then hoseless AI is not for you!
this thread has taught me one thing: If you're a cheap assed diver, then [-]hoseless ai [/-] diving is not for you!
Thanks RJP, I dive a primary AI and a backup computer and SPG. I will never miss a single dive or a series of dives. I've never needed the backups but am glad I have them. What's your backup plan AfterDark, abandon the dive, go to tables for the series? Good for you
This thread has taught me one thing: If you're a cheap assed diver, then hoseless AI is not for you!
You know, it's funny. As I was posting the first picture I thought to myself "Will AfterDark reply 'I meant the SPG!' in a post that would make one of us look kind of silly."
Feel better now?
Of course, no one is saying that anyone who is happy with their current gear must buy an AI computer/transmitter. That would be far, far sillier than the suggestion that "toting along extra gear" is a meaningful reason NOT to get one.
Because it is another technology solution to a problem that does not exist. A B&G spg is stone cold reliable and cheap and needs no back up. But the guys with the AI stuff are still using a spg for when the technology goes TU which it seems to often do. I think AI appeals to a certain type/segment of the diver population, not a put down, just hardly an universal draw to someone like myself who is all about eliminating equipment, not adding it.
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I've had an SPG fail during a dive. Somehow the O-ring extruded and the gauge flooded. And I had my AI computer fail. So nothing is fail proof. When it matters, I use the AI computer with a simple SPG as a back-up.
That's a maintenance issue. That o ring/valve gets changed on my spg every hose change or every 5 years which ever comes 1st. If a quality spg is cared for it is rock solid reliable.
I guess the question is, what problem are you trying to solve?
For me, I see a ton of divers agonizing over the cost of participating in this sport. Air integration is an expensive feature with questionable benefits at best. My advice, instead of spending your money on nice to haves, spend it on better training. I've never bought any optional gear that has increased my enjoyment of diving as much as good training has.
Just calling a spade an fn shovel is my take. There's a lot of humor in merely stating the obvious.Seems there is a little intolerance being shown by the AI crowd here no?