Pro/Con of Oceanic B.U.D.

rhwestfall · Jan 31, 2013

Just curious from the folks using them, what they think.

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5 hours, 49 views, and no comments? Hmmmmm...... Anybody?

scubadada · Jan 31, 2013

My primary computer is an air integrated VT3. I dive a GEO 2 and a SPG as backup. I like this combo and prefer to be able to see my backup on my wrist. I dive the DSAT algorithm the 2 computers are perfectily synchonized.

The BUD looks like it would make a perfectly good backup. I'd guess it would match other Oceanic computers running either algorithm, DSAT or PZ+. I don't know how well it would match other brands/algorithms. One thing is certain, it's reasonably inexpensive.

PACKRMAN · Jan 31, 2013

Mine has been a perfect backup device. I have never HAD to look at it. When I have it matches my Aeris Elite T3. To date I don't have a con.

Sevenrider860 · Jan 31, 2013

My B.U.D. usually just stays clipped to my shoulder D-ring. I look at it at the start of the dive just to see if it is showing correct depth and NDL time...then I forget about it.

On January 2nd by Atomic Cobalt went crazy because of a firmware bug that failed to change the year. The computer became ultra, ultra conservative ( in deco 5 minutes @ 60 feet). I looked at my B.U.D. and it had the correct info. That was dive 1 of 4 that day.

The B.U.D. was used the remainder of the dives while the Cobalt became an expensive SPG for the day.

Very happy I had the B.U.D....but I also have tables as triple backup.

al248005 · Jan 31, 2013

with the BUD you can't download the dive data to your log on your computer.

Sevenrider860 · Jan 31, 2013

al248005:
with the BUD you can't download the dive data to your log on your computer.

It also does not have a backlit display, or audible alarms, or air integration. It does not even have a wrist strap! Those are the features for your primary dive computer. This is sold, marketed and priced as a backup.

NCadiver · Feb 1, 2013

It ascaled down version of the geo computer and you can buy a full computer for thesame price as the bud.

Plus what these guy's said,

al248005:
with the BUD you can't download the dive data to your log on your computer.

Sevenrider860:
It also does not have a backlit display, or audible alarms, or air integration. It does not even have a wrist strap! Those are the features for your primary dive computer. This is sold, marketed and as a backup.

A backup computer should be good for a day or a week ofdiving or the month it take for your primary to get back and this just isn'tthat.

rhwestfall · Feb 1, 2013

NCadiver:
you can buy a full computer for the same price as the bud.

enlighten me... a I am looking at $150+/- for a NIB, non-grey market B.U.D.

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NCadiver:
A backup computer should be good for a day or a week ofdiving or the month it take for your primary to get back and this just isn'tthat.

seems some have had other experiences...

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al248005:
with the BUD you can't download the dive data to your log on your computer.

If I can on my primary, does that matter? What does that have to do with safely ending a dive?

About the only "flaw" I can find is not getting "average depth" from the device for table verification.... Curious about durability, build quality, etc.

Randy g · Feb 1, 2013

Had one and sold it. Not my cup of tea. No history after the dive to compare with primary and it locked up a couple on dives. That was enough to get rid of it! Dive buddy still has hers and she likes it.

rhwestfall · Feb 1, 2013

Randy g:
No history after the dive to compare with primary

Interesting, literature says it logs last 10 dives, up to 10 hours IIRC..

Randy g:
it locked up a couple on dives.

define "locked up" - what was the dive profile? did you possibly violate a NDL or something because it was running a different algorithm than your main? My PUCK did that to me when my main DC said "good to go"...

Just curious.....

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