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>I'm disappointed to hear bad things about the Nitrox Nemesis; I was seriously >thinking of upgrading to it. I am pleased with my Nemesis so far, but I >haven't put it into long decompression. > As I recall from my manual, it states pretty clearly when it will go >into gauge mode. Although I wish it never would, I seem to remember that you >had to push it pretty far, and pushing it to require a 40 foot stop is getting >there; that's the deepest stop it calculates. > Anyway, I have talked to several people at Cochran, and I've found >them to be open to ideas. I like the Nemesis a lot, and its computer interface >has a lot, if not the most, user-controllable parameters I've seen. They might >be able to work with us to fix these problems, or at least provide a good >excuse. Scott, I'd like more details on what happened to you so I can avoid >it (offline to save bandwidth?), and I'd encourage you to call Cochran. > I'm wishing I checked into Orcas more, but I did have a US divers >Scan 4 for a little while; won it in a raffle and traded it in for some DIN >valves. This thing went into gauge mode when it got wet. I never wanted to >dive with it at all. Ok, Ok, I'm not knocking the Nemesis Nitrox. I like it's programmability. But I just don't find it sufficient, I'll never count on it completely on a serious dive. Because *EVER* going into a "guage" mode is too often. When I mentioned it happening to me, as I recall, I said it happened after it transitioned through a 40 ft ceiling. I understand that it says that in the manual, and was expecting it. It is still a good thing that I had already worked out a schedule for my dive, and was also using the Alladin. My experimentation with it is deliberate. I just bought it, and only have about 15 dives on it. Serious dives with bad surprises where deviations from plan are where computers come in most handy, by my way of thinking. They give additional input that let me make decisions during the dive about ascents, profile and everything else. So, a computer that will go into guage mode is not really cool by my way of thinking. ------------------------------------------------------- scot@bt*.co* Scot Anderson pp000082@in*.co* Voice: 703/761/6536 CIS:74147.2357 Fax: 703/556/9290
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