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In your message dated Sunday 3, September 1995 you wrote :
> Folks -
>
> Today in a moment of weakness I succumbed and bought an Aladin Maestro
> Pro (aka Nemesis II Nitrox). When I got the beast home, I started to
> RTFM, and found on page 43 'Gauge Mode Alarm' the warning that:
>
> 'Your computer will go into Gauge Mode if:
>
> more an five minutes has elapsed with the depth less than the ceiling
> [snip]'
>
> So now I'm worried. I bought the machine for decompression diving. I
> understood from advertising that this was a deco computer, in fact they
> had gone to the trouble of adding a second mix feature specifically designed
> to support air diving with a high O2 deco gas. Now I read the manual and it
> implies that the computer will turn into a gauge if I don't 'ascend
> immediately' when it indicates that deco is required.
>
> Is this a 'feature' of the Beuchat version, or is it a Cochran feature?
> >From the manual, it looks like I should return the thing in the morning.
> Am I reading this wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott.
Scott
I think you have probably misread the manual (easy to do since it is
not intuative
- I know cos I did. What it is saying is that if you ascend ABOVE the
decompression
ceiling for more than 5 minutes it will enter gauge mode. Pretty reasonable
since going
shallower than a mandatory ceiling for 5 minutes is not a good thing to do.
Regards
Chris
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