FallenMatt
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I am an owner of Aeris 750GT hoseless air integrated writsmounted computer. I bought it used for very resonable price (ie. much much much lower than it retails online)
I did bunch of dives with it and i like it (the air integrated part is very cool BUt it tends to loose the signal every so often, usually when i put my wrist in front of me to read the gauges. That's not a big problem because it usually finds the signal again few seconds later but it has this annoying habbit of beeping while signal is lost.
I looked around the scubaboard and saw some people mentioning this problem. Since I've got this unit used and I didn't change the batteries (and the computer doesn't diplsay "battery low" icon yet) I was wondering if getting new batteries would fix it or is it a typical problem with this model (this would explain why i got such a good deal on it and why Aeris is not making it anymore)
The batteries are quite pricey (half AA, radioshack sells them for $12 a piece), so i would like to avoid spending $24 to just test the "theory" that the batteries are weak in my unit.
The other thing that i might suspect is the placement of the transmitter on the 1st stage, as i understand the display and the transmitter should be parallel to each other for best transmission. Unfortunatelly my 1st stage has only one high pressure port (mares MR-12) so i don't have much of a freedom to experiment here.
Personally i don't care too much for loss of the signal since it is never permament but my buddies are getting annoyed every so often because they think those beeps mean real danger or something...
So.. is this a general problem or the batteries or somehting else ? The only mention of the range of the transmitter i could find in the manual is "when activating keep the display in 3 ft/1 meter distance from the transmiter".
I am over 6ft tall so i could imagine my wrist could be over 3ft from the transmitter everyso often...
Anyway, any kind of observations/advices woudl be appreciated... (even the "you bought junk!!" ones ut: )
this is the pics of the display unit, no i didn't buy it from those guys, they just had the image handy
I did bunch of dives with it and i like it (the air integrated part is very cool BUt it tends to loose the signal every so often, usually when i put my wrist in front of me to read the gauges. That's not a big problem because it usually finds the signal again few seconds later but it has this annoying habbit of beeping while signal is lost.
I looked around the scubaboard and saw some people mentioning this problem. Since I've got this unit used and I didn't change the batteries (and the computer doesn't diplsay "battery low" icon yet) I was wondering if getting new batteries would fix it or is it a typical problem with this model (this would explain why i got such a good deal on it and why Aeris is not making it anymore)
The batteries are quite pricey (half AA, radioshack sells them for $12 a piece), so i would like to avoid spending $24 to just test the "theory" that the batteries are weak in my unit.
The other thing that i might suspect is the placement of the transmitter on the 1st stage, as i understand the display and the transmitter should be parallel to each other for best transmission. Unfortunatelly my 1st stage has only one high pressure port (mares MR-12) so i don't have much of a freedom to experiment here.
Personally i don't care too much for loss of the signal since it is never permament but my buddies are getting annoyed every so often because they think those beeps mean real danger or something...
So.. is this a general problem or the batteries or somehting else ? The only mention of the range of the transmitter i could find in the manual is "when activating keep the display in 3 ft/1 meter distance from the transmiter".
I am over 6ft tall so i could imagine my wrist could be over 3ft from the transmitter everyso often...
Anyway, any kind of observations/advices woudl be appreciated... (even the "you bought junk!!" ones ut: )
this is the pics of the display unit, no i didn't buy it from those guys, they just had the image handy