![]() The only other thing you’ll need to set is the compass. The set-up process is fast and intuitive, and within five minutes of opening the box you’ll be ready to take your new computer diving. The top and bottom buttons are used to make changes, and the centre button confirms them.Īmong the many parameters you can set are your cylinder size and gas-consumption rate, and alarms for depth or time. ![]() A short press of the centre button enters the appropriate sub-menu. Then you scroll up and down using the top and bottom buttons to find the setting you want to alter. That doesn’t mean that they’re in any way hard to press, just that Suunto has hit the Goldilocks spot in terms of operation.Ī long press on the centre button enters the set-up menus. They have a decent length of travel and need enough force to push in that you won’t change any settings unless you mean to. It also has a usably large compass.Īdjustments and selections are made using the three buttons on the right of the computer. ![]() Out of the box, the Eon Core is a recreational single-gas decompression computer able to monitor depth and time, manage ascent rates and calculate mandatory decompression for air or nitrox with a maximum oxygen content of up to 100%. It’s a cracking screen, and well thought-through. The information shown on the screen varies according to how you set the computer up, and you can also customise the display to your own liking, but it remains intelligible at all times. The Eon Core computer planning screen showing information for a 30m air dive I dived Hodge Close in murky conditions a few years ago and would have dearly loved a computer this easy to read. I could rave about the screen, but let’s just say that it’s colourful, large and supremely easy to read. This will be the first time you get to see the screen in action. The first time you fire the computer up you’ll need to set the time and date and the units, metric or imperial, that you want the computer to use. In use, the display shows remaining dive-time available before you need to recharge the battery at the top left of the screen. The USB end of the cable can plug into a laptop or a dedicated USB charger. It’s held in place magnetically, with the four pins on the charger lined up over the four metal contacts on the computer. To activate, you attach the cable to the back of the computer. It comes in a neat box that also contains a user manual and a USB charger cable. The new Eon Core is effectively a less extreme version of the Eon Steel, and – spoiler alert! – it’s an excellent piece of kit that isn’t overshadowed by its slightly older sibling. And the build quality suggests that you could use it as a club if the scramble for boat places ever got out of hand, and still take it diving. ![]() If I looked up the words “fully featured” in a dictionary I wouldn’t be surprised to see a picture of one in place of a long description. The Eon Steel came out a little while ago. Its products have been pretty much standard issue at various times, and it has always seemed to hit the features/usability/ price-point combination nail firmly on the head, which makes any new Suunto dive computer of more than passing interest. The universal acceptance of computers is one of the most profound changes to sweep the sports-diving world, and Finnish company Suunto has done as much as anybody to encourage that development. In fact, I don’t remember the last time I saw a diver withoutĪt least one computer, even if he or she also had a slate and timer as a last resort. And I include tec and rebreather divers in that sweeping generalisation.
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