Best guage mode in a computer?

[PullYourselfTogetherMan]

So I'm taking GUE fundies in April and I need a depth guage/bottom timer. I was recommended to get the Scubapro/Uwatec Digital 330 but its like $250ish. I could get a dive computer for almost $100 less but I don't know if it would have the same features in guage mode as the Digital 330 has. Can anyone give me any technical recommendations?

 

[AJ]

The only mportant readings are dive time and depth. The 330 shows noting more than that. More is not needed for GUE Fundies. Oh, it's nice if your computer/guage does not lock you out when you violate it's suggestions as for instance Suunto does

 

[BoltSnap]

So I'm taking GUE fundies in April and I need a depth guage/bottom timer. I was recommended to get the Scubapro/Uwatec Digital 330 but its like $250ish. I could get a dive computer for almost $100 less but I don't know if it would have the same features in guage mode as the Digital 330 has. Can anyone give me any technical recommendations?

If you have a dive computer, any computer, with gauge mode, use it!! I wouldn't buy a depth gauge/bottom timer of any kind, I'd buy a computer with gauge mode and use it in gauge mode.

 

[stuartv]

The difference between some is that some show average depth during the dive and some don’t.

Ask your instructor if you need that and then choose accordingly. I would definitely buy an actual computer rather than the SP/Uwatec bottom timer.

 

[Chris H]

The Scubapro/Aladin Tec 2G and similar computers have a decent gauge mode, and if you have the correct IrDA adapter, they will download dive profiles as well. The Scubapro/Uwatec software has terrible support, but that is another story altogether. I have a 330 BT that is currently on my scooter, as well as a TEC 2G and two Shearwater Petrels. Let me give it a little thought and perhaps I could part with a BT if that is the route you want to go. Although I do agree with using a computer in BT mode vs the BT.