XDEEP Black BT Review

[alewar]

The only other unit I was looking at was Heinrik Meinkampf's thing-die OSTC sport loved how it uses AA batterys, but it has issues of software openness- trimix and ccr in case my diving decides to evolve further.

As far as I know their firmware is open source. You can download it for free and even modify it if you have the skills. Do you see that as a disadvantage?

 

[tridacna]

Cricket, I live in a country which is often over 33*c and some fools run around an oval in that heat chasing a leather skinned ball which weighs 1&3/4 lbs.

5 3/4 ounces. (I'm a cricket umpire).

Must be tough living your life avoiding supporting the US. I trust that you also purchase nothing from China for all of the same reasons. There was a book written about trying to live for one year without buying anything made in China. More difficult than you'd imagine.

There is no excuse for bad customer service; Piotr gets it - Sebastian does not. I'll be seeing him at a trade-show this weekend. In person, he is the most charming, lovely guy. He just hates it when pesky customers get in the way of doing business.

 

[buddhasummer]

As far as I know their firmware is open source. You can download it for free and even modify it if you have the skills. Do you see that as a disadvantage?

You are correct hence the name OSTC..the OS standing for open source. Having said that I'm not sure exactly how open it actually is. They have tri-mix and CCR capable computers but again I'm not entirely sure how open those are. If I hadn't already bought a Petrel I'd give HW another go. I had one of there computers a couple of years ago, nice computer and great service when unfortunately I needed it.

 

[ozzydamo]

5 3/4 ounces. (I'm a cricket umpire).

Must be tough living your life avoiding supporting the US. I trust that you also purchase nothing from China for all of the same reasons. There was a book written about trying to live for one year without buying anything made in China. More difficult than you'd imagine.

There is no excuse for bad customer service; Piotr gets it - Sebastian does not. I'll be seeing him at a trade-show this weekend. In person, he is the most charming, lovely guy. He just hates it when pesky customers get in the way of doing business.

It's a bit like avoiding the big Aussie duopoly supermarkets- all I ever buy from them is toilet paper.

I like "the German product" it always has a lot of thought put into it. Now with the value of the euro dollar- European made isn't so expensive as it was before 2008, when Goldman Sachs forked the place over. Even seeing Audi's being the same as Toyota pricing here in Stralya. I wonder what side of Poland the maker of the Xdeep is from- seems he likes the colour black, wonder if he has Hugo boss aftershave?

 

[diablito76]

Easy. For support and service, they are orthogonally equivalent. Happy now?

i would say opposite. I you would send a Send a petrel for repair/warranty , no problem. Send the xblack and you'll have excuses and time waisted...

---------- Post added March 26th, 2015 at 10:57 PM ----------

I have a petrel and xblack with nitrox. And petrel is a better computer for diving , software is more reliable this has built reputation trough the time , it's easy to read during the dive, user replaceable battery and MUCH BETTER customer service and in my experience i cant say the same about the xdeep if i could get my money back i would get a different computer/bottom timer if you plan to invest i woul throw a few more bugs for something that won't let you down

 

[tridacna]

How is the software on the Petrel more reliable? Can you be specific?

 

[StefinSB]

I like "the German product" it always has a lot of thought put into it. Now with the value of the euro dollar- European made isn't so expensive as it was before 2008, when Goldman Sachs forked the place over.

There is no euro dollar ...

 

[JohnnyC]

I'm kind of curious if xDeep will fill the current backorders of BT versions. I'd really like to give this a shot as a straight tables/timer backup to my Petrel, but it seems like the other models don't justify the price over another Petrel.

 

[ajduplessis]

How is the software on the Petrel more reliable? Can you be specific?

I think what he is trying to say is that the Shearwater firmware (software) have been around long enough and used by more than a handful of users to state better reliability compared to xDeep. SW does have a proven track record both with hardware and firmware.

 

[tridacna]

I think what he is trying to say is that the Shearwater firmware (software) have been around long enough and used by more than a handful of users to state better reliability compared to xDeep. SW does have a proven track record both with hardware and firmware.

Jawellnofine.