Uwatec Aladin Pro battery question

[Alvin Slovinsky]

Does anyone have a picture of this battery and the size of it there is a company that might have one but wants to see a picture of the old one first

 

[JamesBon92007]

This is from the old, gray, rectangular, oil-filled Aladin Pro with four contacts. I re-read the whole thread but I'm not sure which one you have. The one with the smaller screen, three contacts, and the separate battery compartment uses the same battery but with different solder terminals. It is: CR-07 Lithium 3.6V. It's the same size as an AA 1.5V cell.

 

[Alvin Slovinsky]

This is from the old, gray, rectangular, oil-filled Aladin Pro with four contacts. I re-read the whole thread but I'm not sure which one you have. The one with the smaller screen, three contacts, and the separate battery compartment uses the same battery but with different solder terminals. It is: CR-07 Lithium 3.6V. It's the same size as an AA 1.5V cell.


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This is my dive computer watch the battery is in its own compartment on the side and the battery has to be soldered at each end be sure to lubricate the rubber seal on the top cap.

 

[drbill]

Good luck. Uwatec has made there computers so that users cannot change them out.

That certainly is true of the Aladin Pro Nitrox (which had a very poor algorithm for determining remaining battery strength) but not for later models. I have had several for which I could easily replace the battery with a relatively inexpensive one.

 

[JamesBon92007]

This is my dive computer watch the battery is in its own compartment on the side and the battery has to be soldered at each end be sure to lubricate the rubber seal on the top cap.

How many dives do you have on the Tadiran battery? In another thread I asked if anyone has determined which brands are good, and which are not-so-good.

I went ahead and replaced the O-rings on my Beauchat computers with the separate battery compartment, and of course lubed them with silicone grease. The only one I've had a problem with is an old Suunto/Seaquest Solution (also from the early 90s) that leaked a tiny bit into the battery compartment so I packed it with silicone grease. I replaced the O-ring and even re-tapped the screw holes and replaced the sheet metal screws with machine screws and it still got damp in the battery compartment.

So far, of all of my recently acquired ancient computers, I like the oil-filled Uwatec with four contacts the best. I don't need a manual to find the dive logs and you can view them in either direction (oldest or newest). I did get a small air bubble in there but I can use it to play my own version of Pong while on safety stops.