SUUNTO Mosquito battery Change issue

sshen77 · Feb 25, 2006

All Friends:
I have a SUUNTO Mosquito , but now low battery need to change... It can be replaced by myself but I'm wondering whether it must need to do the water resistance test... I'm in Shanghai China & I can't buy a battery in Shanghai since no dealers here. Anyone can suggest me where to buy near my location....

thanks & best rgds
Steven

Arraial · Feb 25, 2006

You may get a kit on www.diveinn.com. I changed the button ( CR 2032) battery myself and it`s not a big issue, the manual has all the info. Also,You may find cr2032 at the nearest photo equip shop
Marcelo

sshen77 · Feb 25, 2006

thanks Arraial... But I'm not sure whether the O-ring must change or not since it will cause leakage issue. Can I test the water resistance by myself?? Can I refer to the housing leakage test, just seal it & put into water to see any leakage or not ? ( housing just seal it & put into the water to see whether there is leakage or not )

Diver Dennis · Feb 25, 2006

I've changed the battery in mine and as long as the O-ring looks OK don't worry about it. I left the old one in. I did lube it with a bit of silicone from my camera kit though.

Iruka · Feb 25, 2006

I've changed mine myself, with no problems so far (your mileage may vary)....but I don't know if you can do a leak test with a Suunto like you would with a camera housing. There's usually quite a bit of air in a camera housing, enough that you'd be able to see a lot of bubbles & get the camera out of the water before any damage was done (I'm talking about putting the camera in a bucket or whatever for this.)...but with a tiny little dive computer, I'd expect that first bubble you saw (if you could even see one) would let in enough water to ruin the computer.

vf84pc · Feb 26, 2006

The 2032 is the standard computer back-up battery so it should be easy to find, as long as the o-ring does not have any nicks,cuts or other damaget it should be okay. Check the manual I believe you may need to apply silicone greese to the o-ring. You could submerge it in 1 meter of fresh water to check the water integrity of the computer. Flooding with fresh water is much prefered to salt water.

Arraial · Feb 27, 2006

The original suunto kit has new o'ring and battery cover. Mine were ok,so I did the same as Dennis .Take a look at the manual :Silicone grease (not much) , good inspection (avoid dirt) and a test on fresh water. It´s not as good as a pressure test , but That's the best I could get .
Since then I made a 7 day dive trip and went down to 30m, still dry..

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