Quote: (Originally Posted by PCDiver)
Wow, that is a draconian solution.
I have the feeling that we are trying to find fixes, some more extreme than the other, for something that Kevin needs to solve.
I have never had a battery life issue because I use lithium cells, but of it came down to being able to stay on the loop, I'll choose to flood the battery.. My safety is first, so piece of electronic gear is secondary..
I don't think the vr3 battery cap is any better... it had its issues for a few years.. The Al HH units have only been out about 8 months, and it looks like most of the tbls have been isolated... He is having alternate material battery caps being made for test and my change in the future..
You will NEVER see a manual power off, its against his safety philosophy.. I agree here..
personally I like the deco on the primary (gives me one place to look for everything and allows the secondary to be a realtime po2 display), if moved to the secondary it would mean a dive would really be using that as the primary and the priomary is only a sp controller.. has its promises but now makes switching modes more of a hassle especially in times of emergency..
There are ways to preserve the deco info (up to a point), its just more development time..
I would love to see some type of battery monitoring to get full life out of cells, but I have dove the HH since the beginning and have never had any battery issues except maybe I change the cells a bit earlier than I have to..