ajduplessis
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Look up the tec guys in Thailand, I am sure someone is looking to upgrade.
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With user replaceable battery in mind...
Are OSTC any good for you? I suspect the price may be issue as you mention the retired fixed income, but they are cheaper than Shearwater. I have dived with peope using these computers, they’re pretty good.
heinrichs weikamp
It's me again.
I continued on with the D4i. But, it already needs a new battery after 21 months and only 67 dives. (That means the battery costs about US$1.50 per dive.)
Any updates to the above recommendations? I'd like a computer that doesn't go through batteries so fast and/or has user replaceable batters. Also, I need a USB cable that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Compatibility with Subsurface is a must.
Price is less of an object than it was two years ago….
TIA
My wife's Zoop is four and half years old. has done just over 200 dives and is still on the original battery.
24 is the limit for the number of dive summaries available in the Log menu mode. More dives are stored in download memory. Rate of memory use is determined by the sample rate setting. They don’t provide guidance for that amount, but I have had various Pelagics for decades, and at the 30 sec sample rate I think you will easily have dozens of stored dives.Another question about the i300C:
I've been reading the manual which indicates (page 19) that the dive log only stores the most recent 24 dives.
I guess that means that if you do a liveaboard with more than 24 dives you're SOL unless you bring your laptop (which I don't have)?
I store all my dives using Subsurface on an iMac, so, for me, this is a fatal flaw for the i300C. Is there any way around it?
I can't believe you are complaining about getting only 21 months out of a battery.