PraNkiSh писал(а):
в догонку - а кто читает буржуйские форумы, прессу и т.д. - как у них продвигается ребро ? под какой эгидой идет маркетинг ?
Маркетинг кого? Посейдона? За который нервно схватились некоторые наши клубы и начали срочно знакомить общественность с ним?
"Там" маркетинг ограничивается разбросанными по форумам заявлениями "первый рекраеационный ребризер" "первый истинно рекреационный ребризер" и отзывами тех, кто его пробовал и при этом имеет опыт ребризеров не собирается зарабатывать на продажах Псоейдонов и курсов к ним.
The unit has been designed to ‘fail safe’ which I initially thought meant it would never pass any checks and stop you from diving, that’s about as safe as you can get,
I have learned that the unit has to be stood up and lungs deflated prior to the checks or it will fail on the pressure tests. I have also learned that if the HUD is not secured properly this will also fail the tests, as will the calibration test if you leave the head in the van overnight and it gets cold. It is a fussy start up procedure in some ways, but actually when you think about it this means that the unit will only let you in the water if everything is absolutely perfect, whether this is a good thing or not remains to be seen in the future, for now you have to accept this as it is and allow the unit to do its own thing.
Prior to each days diving this weekend my unit would fail its checks every time on the calibration. The only way I could get around this was to take the head off (simple operation) and allow the cells to expose themselves to a warmer environment. I am unsure if this was just a co-incidence or actually made a difference, but every day I dived I had to do this then the unit worked.
When the unit fails its checks you feel so frustrated as all you get is an error mode telling you which check has failed and the unit switches itself off so you have to start again.
When pre dive checks work first time the whole process takes less than 4 minutes, so you can build the unit up and pre dive check it in less than 10 minutes, which I think makes it the simplest unit to prepare that I’ve ever dived.
On the second day the unit only gave me problems only on the Calibration but once it was in dive mode I kept the unit switched on all day (battery life is 30 hours) and the second dive only momentarily flashed up a cell warning after being stood unused for 2 hours during the surface interval. This means you simply keep breathing the unit until the cell warning disappears, I had been warned this was quite common to see in between dives when the unit isn’t being used.
During the dives I found the unit so simple and easy to use I forgot for a moment what I was diving. The mouthpiece is by far the most lightweight and comfortable of any unit and with the hoses poking downwards you have 100% clear vision, for film and photography divers this will be a huge advantage as you have no idea that there is a loop in front of you, brilliant design. I also found that the OC to CC switch was the simplest and easiest to be found on a CCR to date, very straightforward and with true one handed operation made for easier bail out switches.
Work of breathing is ok but not as good as other units, but definitely good enough. When you look at the hose diameter and overall size of the system and counter lungs it’s amazing it breathes so well being so small.
The only part of being underwater with the Mk6 I didn’t like was the handset, it just didn’t seem to sit particularly well anywhere on my rig and looking at it was a pain in the arse,
Unfortunately that’s where the good stuff ended! On Sunday morning my unit wouldn’t start and the error message was ‘insufficient battery power’. The unit only tells you an error number so you have to consult a check sheet to see what the number refers too. My handset was showing over 50% battery power on the handset yet it failed 6 times in a row to start each time referring to test 48 (battery power level). I recharged the battery and even then it wouldn’t start so early bath for us all, very disappointing and frustrating and left me wondering if I’d trust the unit ‘at work’ again.
Overall it was a real shame as up until that point I was genuinely enjoying the unit and even more so the simplicity of setting it up and diving it. I regularly use a Sentinel for my ‘working’ dives and find I spend too much time prepping and making it ready for diving. It was nice to just turn the Mk6 on and let it run through its checks, but not when you can’t get it in the water, it was a huge blow for my confidence in the unit.
I also know that loads other Instructors all have similar problems, and I have no doubt that a Company such as Poseidon have the ability to make this unit really, really good. Until that point arrives my own unit may have to take a back seat for a while, which for me personally is a real shame as I was just starting feeling good about it.
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