Suunto Zoop Novo user guide

[Bruce Kendall]

I recently purchased a Suunto Zoop Novo after previously owning a Suunto Zoop.  I thoght the Zoop user information was bad, the Zoop Novo is worse and almost non-existent.

Can anyone point me to a user-friendly user guide to the Zoop Novo please?

I've dived with mine once and the display didn't give me anywhere near the info the Zoop gave me.  At the very least I wish to find out how to make the display give me the information I need during a dive.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 4:45 PM Bruce Kendall <1blind...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I recently purchased a Suunto Zoop Novo after previously owning a Suunto Zoop. I thoght the Zoop user information was bad, the Zoop Novo is worse and almost non-existent.
>
> Can anyone point me to a user-friendly user guide to the Zoop Novo please?

I thought you were kidding. But the official Suunto manual really is
very light on "this is what you see while diving".

But there's not a whole lot to it. I'm going by my memories of my old
Vyper Air, which I'm pretty sure is the same platform as the Zoop
Novo.

While diving, the screen has three lines:

- the top line shows you depth. End of story.

- the middle line normally only shows up NDL time, and countdown at
the safety stop

- the lower line has two numbers that you can "scroll through" with
the two buttons (left button for left number, right button for right
number). They default to max depth (left) and dive time (right).

The middle area changes if you go into deco, and then it starts
showing ceiling and ascent time instead of NDL (and there are markers
that change too).

The lower line left number cycles through { max depth, wall clock
time, gas mix }, and the right number cycles through { dive time,
temperature, PO2 }, I think.

Go take a look at the Vyper Air manual:

https://ns.suunto.com/Manuals/Vyper_Air/Userguides/Suunto_Vyper_Air_UserGuide_EN.pdf

but obviously the Zoop Novo doesn't have air integration, so not
everything in that manual is relevant, but it looks like pages 62-64
(basic dive data) and 70-75 (decompression diving) are going to be
what you see.

Ignore anything about "tank pressure data" and "airtime remaining",
which the Zoop doesn't have.

But you're right - I'm a bit shocked at just how bad the Zoop Novo
manual seems to be.

Linus

[Bruce Kendall]

Tnx Linus and appreciate the prompt response. I will do as you advise and see how I go.  From reading other online posts it seems I'm not alone in thinking Suunto produces poor user guide documentation, which is a shame as the products otherwise seem OK. I'm not sure why Suunto does not engage good technical writers to produce such material.  The Zoop has a one page flow chart that steps the user through each part of that dive computer. I can't find one for the Zoop Novo save for the very basic Quick Guide that comes in the box with the computer. 

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 18:30 Bruce Kendall <1blind...@gmail.com> wrote:

Tnx Linus and appreciateZoop has a one page flow chart that steps the user through each part of that dive computer. I can't find one for the Zoop Novo save for the very basic Quick Guide that comes in the box with the computer. 

I found the quick guide, but I also did find the "real" manual. You can find them all on Suunto.com.

But the real manual isn't all that much better. It doesn't really show out the different dive screens like the Vyper Air manual does, and it's just fairly sad.

The best I could find was really that Vyper Air manual, and while I'm pretty sure that the Zoop Novo is basically a Vyper Air without the air integration, I can't guarantee that there aren't other differences too..

       Linus