Bottom Timers

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Originally Posted by PfcAJ

just use a cheap uwatec puck and some tables. cheap & practical.

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You can get an older computer for less than a bottom timer, and you can change the batteries in them.

How about a Uwatec $145 plus shipping.http://www.cavediver.net/forum/galle...9/img_0438.jpg

then one computer argues with the other, and you're left with just 1 after your first dive :) The uwatec won't lock you out.

There should be some Dive Rite Duos on the used market, That has a gauge mode if you find it does not match you primary computer.

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Originally Posted by PfcAJ

then one computer argues with the other, and you're left with just 1 after your first dive :) The uwatec won't lock you out.

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Both my new, and old computers match within a couple minutes, and neither one has ever locked me out.

fair nuff. models?

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Originally Posted by PfcAJ

then one computer argues with the other, and you're left with just 1 after your first dive :) The uwatec won't lock you out.

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I sometimes use an old Aeris computer as a backup. It has the annoying habit of not showing run time once it's in deco.
I do like the "stealth gauge mode though" Bend it on a first dive , it gets upset and becomes a bottom timer :-)

NiTek he on one wrist, NiTek Plus on the other. For the once-in-a-blue-moon helium dive, the Plus works in gauge mode.

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Originally Posted by PfcAJ

fair nuff. models?

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Primary computer: Shearwater Predator OLED PROCTE (with O2 input)
Backup: Hydrospace Explorer model M (also with O2 input)
I have some older ones, like a Nitek 3 that can be locked in gauge mode, and use them like bottom timers.

lI have a Hollis DG 02 and it works good as bottom timer, but I bend the you know what out of the thing when it is not in guage mode, but then it defauts to guage mode so it isn't a big deal.