Vision on the wrist?

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PeteS

Started on the wrist. Well it came with some little straps, so ....

Anyway, it was a pain. It now lives clipped onto the chest strap, I can use both thumbs to operate the buttons and I don't need to chase it round my wrist to read it. And as an added bonus, I don't have a loop of hose hanging out that snagged on just about everything! Oh, and I can also move it far enough away from my eyes to read it. I really must get some lenses in my mask.

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mik

Anyone mind posting a pic of how the clip is held on? It is a pain having it on the wrist sometimes unless I can wrap the cord around 'just right' and really do the straps up tight. I tried the stock strap that it came with but found it hung too low. I imagine you just push the shock cord through where the straps were then tie it off with a snap hook in the loop of shock cord, is this correct?

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Beanie

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can sort of almost see it on these, you do of course have to use bright pink bungee for this to work

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Tino de Rijk

Bungeed to the D-ring on the inside of the rightside C/L for me & Rita. Didn't even try it on my wrist; a first look showed it to be too bulky, and hard to use on the wrist.

As to "how": a new Inspo/Evo Vision comes off-factory already with a piece of extra webbing and a clip, so you take off the wrist straps, fit the supplied alternative piece of webbing, with supplied clip, and there you go. I keep it relatively short, i.e. close to the body; just long enough to read it. I find it very easy to read & manipulate this way.

In fact, I have even also moved my VR3 from my wrist (where it was hard to read, a.o. due to the HUD sitting in the field of vision, and I don't like it on my other wrist) to a similar setup: piece of webbing + clip to D-ring on inside of counterlung. Especially with a drysuit it is a PITA as you have to move it higher up your arm due to the large wrist collars. On a wetsuit you can move it lower, i.e. direction of your hand. So when drysuit diving it now hangs on the other D-ring on the inside of my C-lungs. Easy to handle the buttons, easy to read (as far as "easy to read" applies to a VR3 anyway....).

I have made a spare female-part of the clip on the topside carrying handle of my Inspo, so I can easily clip the handset high up on the carrying handle after the dive / during transport, avoiding putting the unit on top of it by accident. I think the alu Vision handset can handle that better than the Classic ones, but still: I try to keep it as schratch-free as possible.

Ciao,

Tino.

ciao,

Tino.

greig

Moved it onto a retracter. My arms are too short to get a good view wen its on my wrist.

Timbo

The old saying of "One off the wrist is worth two in the bush" in this case is not true.

I prefer mine clipped to front D Ring on left counter lung.

Tried it on the wrist and it got on my t**ts

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BGC

Hi,

If you choose the option of attaching the vision to a D-ring, what is the best
place for the VR3? i'm looking for a very compact solution. Maybe the vision
and the VR3 back to back attached? An idea?

Regards.

Bernard

PCDiver

I have the Vision on my hand, not on my wrist. One strap is around my wrist and one strap goes through the palm of my hand. It doesn't restrict the use of my hand in any way and I can keep the Vision further away.

DaveB

Me too. The display doesn't slide round this way and you only have to undo and do up one strap, which makes each end of the dive a bit easier.

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