rhillier
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Greetings,
I have been using an Icon HD for about a little over a year now, and am quite happy with the unit. I have noticed a couple of strange things when using the Dive Organizer software that came with it. I am using the latest 2.14 version, and the latest firmware (I forget the version number offhand).
I have noticed that the numbers in regard to gas consumption seem to be incorrect. For example, on my last dive logged, I get an average rate of consumption showing as 4.0 cuft per minute with a maximum consumption rate of 2.8 cuft per minute using an 80 cuft tank. There are a couple of problems with this... first, the maximum should never be lower than the average. Second, my dive was 80 minutes in length, and at an average of 4.0 cuft per minute, I would have been dead about 20 minutes into the dive.
I notice that during the dive, the computer shows anywhere from 0.4 to 0.7 cuft per minute, depending on how hard I am working (it usually showed around 0.5). These numbers don't make sense to me either... even at the highest number that I observed, I should theoretically be getting 114 minutes out of a tank, but the numbers from my dive show that I started with 2834 PSI and finished with 251 PSI (small quarry, so I wasn't overly concerned about remaining air), so there was no way I was going to get 34 minutes out of 251 PSI.
I double checked the settings on my computer, and they are accurate in regard to the equipment that I was using.
Has anyone else observed this? It doesn't exactly inspire my confidence in Mares Dive Organizer Software.
>>> Rick <<<
I have been using an Icon HD for about a little over a year now, and am quite happy with the unit. I have noticed a couple of strange things when using the Dive Organizer software that came with it. I am using the latest 2.14 version, and the latest firmware (I forget the version number offhand).
I have noticed that the numbers in regard to gas consumption seem to be incorrect. For example, on my last dive logged, I get an average rate of consumption showing as 4.0 cuft per minute with a maximum consumption rate of 2.8 cuft per minute using an 80 cuft tank. There are a couple of problems with this... first, the maximum should never be lower than the average. Second, my dive was 80 minutes in length, and at an average of 4.0 cuft per minute, I would have been dead about 20 minutes into the dive.
I notice that during the dive, the computer shows anywhere from 0.4 to 0.7 cuft per minute, depending on how hard I am working (it usually showed around 0.5). These numbers don't make sense to me either... even at the highest number that I observed, I should theoretically be getting 114 minutes out of a tank, but the numbers from my dive show that I started with 2834 PSI and finished with 251 PSI (small quarry, so I wasn't overly concerned about remaining air), so there was no way I was going to get 34 minutes out of 251 PSI.
I double checked the settings on my computer, and they are accurate in regard to the equipment that I was using.
Has anyone else observed this? It doesn't exactly inspire my confidence in Mares Dive Organizer Software.
>>> Rick <<<
