Suunto Vyper

[monant]

I bought a used Suunto Vyper. Does anyone know of a way to delete the previous owner’s dives?

[MSilvia]

Well, you could dive until you reach the computer's memory capacity and push the previous owner's dives out, but that's probably not the kind of quick solution you're looking for.

[ReefHound]

There is not an authorized way to do it. There is a 3rd party tool to do it, though. Suunto Eraser from Liquid Image Photo. Click on Suunto Tools.

[monant]

Originally Posted by MSilvia

Well, you could dive until you reach the computer's memory capacity and push the previous owner's dives out, but that's probably not the kind of quick solution you're looking for.

Correct, that not the solution I was wanting but if necessary I'll do it. I think it has a 250 dive memory and about 75 dives from the previous owner.

[monant]

Originally Posted by ReefHound

There is not an authorized way to do it. There is a 3rd party tool to do it, though. Suunto Eraser from Liquid Image Photo. Click on Suunto Tools.

Thanks for the link. Will this program erase all dive history or can I select the dives to delete?

[MelLandry]

Is their really any advantage to deleting the old dives? As far as I know, it dosn't have any type of "learning memory". It'll just hold on to them and you can ignore them. If you're uploading dives to your PC, you can choose which dives to upload, and which to leave alone.

[ReefHound]

Originally Posted by monant

Thanks for the link. Will this program erase all dive history or can I select the dives to delete?

I have not used the program but I believe it wipes them all. The website says it resets the computer to original factory state, which also means you lose any other settings and alarms you have set.

I have the original Vyper and it stores about 36 hours dive time at 20 second sampling rate. It pages dives out as space for new dives are needed. You could adjust the sampling rate to 10 seconds and do some long shallow dives and get it done in maybe 20 dives. Or throw it in a pool and leave it overnight, ha ha!