Quote: (Originally Posted by
Shaunzxr)
Mine are the Delrin handsets.
Fitted fresh batteries before the dive.
Batteries were still good after the dive.
I dived today, 75m, 45mins into the dive on the acsent my primary shut down. Fresh pants were required at the time
. The secondry worked ok so I ran it manual and after 5 mins the primary came back on showing no stop
. No battery warning or low battery showing.
When back on land after changing pants checked for any battery corrosion and there was none
. I will no longer trust the HH
Shunzxr, I understand and share your frustration. Since I posted this thread, I have had my handsets reset once and shut down once. Granted, I dive every weekend, but if it happens once, it's way too often!
I still use Duracel's and change them every day of diving and am obsessive about putting my handsets to sleep when I am not using them. I have also begun to be more selective about the voltage reading of the battery I put into the handset - What I mean is, when I put a battery in, if the voltage is not at least 1.5V, then I grab another battery from the pack. I only do that for the primary, because it draws more voltage, so I save the batteries that read 1.4V for the secondary handset.
Fortunately, I have not been doing any extended range dives (deeper than 150ft or req. more than 25 min. decompression) lately, because those are the dives that I fear having the handset problem on. I have a backup (VR3 w/ 4th cell), but I've gotten used to having two active sources of confirming my decompression obligation at all times, so if my primary fails, I don't like only having the VR3, which works off of one cell, telling me what decompression obligation I have. As I've previously indicated, I'm seriously considering paying the money to activate my secondary handset, just so I have peace of mind.
In the meantime, until I make the decision to fork out the cash to activate the secondary, if I do a long decompression dive, I will probably set my setpoint lower and manually fly my unit during the decompresson phase of the dive, so the selanoid does not drain the battery and cause the primary to shut down and/or reset, which causes the decompression info to vanish.