cmalinowski
Contributor
OK, I've dived with the atom four dives so far. The jury is still out. It hasn't wow'd me, but it certainly doesn't suck either. I need to work with it a little.
My first problem was that it was not telling me that I had a link to the xmitter on the surface when it was connected to a pressurized tank. The only way I could tell was to do the battery check ('S' button for 5 seconds) which tells me the status and the pressure if link is connected. It showed the link once it got wet. That's a bad thing if you ask me.
I have to work with the alarms because the thing just kept going off for low air condition as I neared the end of the dive. I wasn't too low, but I guess I was hoovering a bit, so maybe it knew best.
Checking your pressure, while not hard because it's one button press away, can be a pain if you lose link with xmitter as I seemed to do. This is probably more due to the location of the xmitter on the right side of the reg and me wearing the atom on my left wrist. I plan on moving the xmitter, but the threads are different on the left side (silly zeagle).
Other than that, no "problems." I will probably set it to the conservative mode. I dove with someone with a suunto, and while they showed 35mins NDL for the next dive, I had 59mins. Granted, we were never perfectly together, but that's quite a difference.
Unfortunately, my DT+ took a crap before the first dive. I turned it on and it read "too high". It then just turns off. I have changed the batteries (although that one was knew). I have taken out the batteries overnight. I have tried anything I can think of and it still just says "too high" when turned on. So, the whole reason for getting the atom as a primary with the DT+ as a backup reading off of the same xmitter went out the window before I ever got the chance to make it happen. Bummer.
My first problem was that it was not telling me that I had a link to the xmitter on the surface when it was connected to a pressurized tank. The only way I could tell was to do the battery check ('S' button for 5 seconds) which tells me the status and the pressure if link is connected. It showed the link once it got wet. That's a bad thing if you ask me.
I have to work with the alarms because the thing just kept going off for low air condition as I neared the end of the dive. I wasn't too low, but I guess I was hoovering a bit, so maybe it knew best.
Checking your pressure, while not hard because it's one button press away, can be a pain if you lose link with xmitter as I seemed to do. This is probably more due to the location of the xmitter on the right side of the reg and me wearing the atom on my left wrist. I plan on moving the xmitter, but the threads are different on the left side (silly zeagle).
Other than that, no "problems." I will probably set it to the conservative mode. I dove with someone with a suunto, and while they showed 35mins NDL for the next dive, I had 59mins. Granted, we were never perfectly together, but that's quite a difference.
Unfortunately, my DT+ took a crap before the first dive. I turned it on and it read "too high". It then just turns off. I have changed the batteries (although that one was knew). I have taken out the batteries overnight. I have tried anything I can think of and it still just says "too high" when turned on. So, the whole reason for getting the atom as a primary with the DT+ as a backup reading off of the same xmitter went out the window before I ever got the chance to make it happen. Bummer.
