Suunto Cobra - Spontaneous Reset
I just returned from a week long trip in Mexico and everything went just great; with the exception of my Cobra. After doing the first dive of the 5th (of 7) day I was about to reset the nitrox mix to 36% and noticed that it was 6pm on Jan 1st 2000. After scratching my head for a moment I realized that the computer had completely reset. Time gone, data gone, repetitive dive profile and nitrogen exposure lost!
I switched to tables and just did a 40 foot dive for the last dive of the day, but I was not comfortable having lost the dive profile and no fly time. If I was doing 3 or 4 dives a day this would have been a real inconvenience.
So I ask if anyone else has experienced this sort of spontaneous reset. My cobra is about 2 years old, has 200 dives on it, and the battery meter has never budged from 100%. The computer worked just fine for the rest of the trip. I plan to replace the battery and give Suunto a call. Any other advice? Should I write this off as a fluke, or drop it like a hot rock?
Dave
I just returned from a week long trip in Mexico and everything went just great; with the exception of my Cobra. After doing the first dive of the 5th (of 7) day I was about to reset the nitrox mix to 36% and noticed that it was 6pm on Jan 1st 2000. After scratching my head for a moment I realized that the computer had completely reset. Time gone, data gone, repetitive dive profile and nitrogen exposure lost!
I switched to tables and just did a 40 foot dive for the last dive of the day, but I was not comfortable having lost the dive profile and no fly time. If I was doing 3 or 4 dives a day this would have been a real inconvenience.
So I ask if anyone else has experienced this sort of spontaneous reset. My cobra is about 2 years old, has 200 dives on it, and the battery meter has never budged from 100%. The computer worked just fine for the rest of the trip. I plan to replace the battery and give Suunto a call. Any other advice? Should I write this off as a fluke, or drop it like a hot rock?
Dave