Quote: (Originally Posted by
Mark Chase)
As you can see from the printouts ther units were Suunto's Top one was my Vytec and the bottom one was my Vyper.
Both are calibrated for sea water but even if they wernt it wouldent explain the 14m diferance in the two printouts. The error was still present in the shalows. Look at the 6m stop depth, its saying I was at 20m.
The Vytec depth sensor had failed and was replaced under warrentee.
ATB
Mark Chase
Hi Mark, now I see. I was fading at the end of that last post as you can see from the botched multiquote, and then went to bed.
So the Suunto depth sensor died? Is this a common problem? I thought they were supposed to be decent quality. I have an Uwatec, which hasn't given me any trouble other than blanking the depth deeper than 100M. It came back as soon as I ascended above 100M. I don't know anybody who has anything else, and everybody seems to think they're reliable to 100M, so I have no reason not to trust mine. But if I were doing big dives on a regular basis, I would probably have a back up comp as well the BT.
It also occured to me after reading the posts again, that you regularly dive in overhead environments in the 70+M range and I don't. But again, if I did, I would bring another stand alone comp.
But back to the issue of an inline sensor or not, the 15 minute deco discrepancy on a big dive is something I would sweat, it's important. Can you clarify which VR was inline, the short deco time or the longer? Thanks, -Andy