Quote: (Originally Posted by Mark Chase)
I crimped my ones and i ended up with a battery cap that looks like a hexigon
Fortunately there is so much slap in the threads it still screws in no problem.
No problems with rebooting on the dive since moving over to the silver grease and the crimped threads but yesterday i did a dive on a fresh battery 55m run time 125min. After the dive the hand sets appeared to shut down OK (thanks to the big wadge of silicone in the sensors.
After washing the unit that night and removing the head it fired up and immediately started going into crash reboot mode
Either the battery is shagged in one dive or it lost contact some were.
Try as i might i couldn't get the unit to "switch off solenoid" mode. It just wouldn't stay awake long enough.
The soft ware MUST be improved to shut off the unit and keep it shut off when the voltage drops to X point. Flying the unit out on the second hand set is no problem at all but the master reboot and 02 inject is a BIG problem.
ATB
Mark Chase
Mark,
2 suggestions,
1) I always switch it to oc mode once I am off the loop, just in case the unit powers up so then the solenoid wount fire as long as the loop is above 0.19
2) if it goes into this power up/down mode, get the po2 above the default taget 0.7 and wait until after the first fire is done before trying anything, if you try and keep the backlight on and the solenoid at the same time and the battery is weak it will reboot..
if it came down to having to stay on the loop and the master keeps rebooting just flood the battery compartment, the water wount go anywhere else and you can clean it up after the dive.. unless the battery is really on the edge of life you should be able to get in and switch the solenoid off or switch to oc mode, but if it rebooted before you try and do anything the po2 should be above a 0.7 and the solenoid must not be firing..
I think the software should disable the solenoid should the voltage drop below some set value.. This will work fine for Alkaline cells, but not for the 3.6v cell without another option telling the controller what battery is in use..