Dive Computer
User Manual
Liquivision Products, Inc
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Revision 1.9 Software 1.17
If you plan to dive a multi-level dive with different mixes for each level, you will need to set a
“Switch” waypoint to tell your KAON to plan a gas switch. Let’s say that after 20m for 20 mins
breathing 32% nitrox, you would like to spend 10 minutes at 40m (ca. 130 ft) and would like to breathe
Air there. Then you would set up two “Normal” waypoints, and add a “Switch” waypoint:
As you can see, in this last example, your KAON provides a dive plan where you breathe 32% during
your dive leg at 20m, then descent to 40m and switch to Air. Once you begin your ascent, it
recommends that you switch to 32% nitrox at 35m and then to O2 at 7m. Your total dive time is 38:18.
A few things to keep in mind…
Your KAON assumes your first waypoint is depth “0” and time “0”.
When preparing your dive plan, your KAON uses the ascent/descent rates configured in the
menu. For example, if your first waypoint is 20 minutes at
30m (ca. 100ft), and your Descent Rate Alarm is set to the default of 30 mpm, then your KAON will
assume you spend the first minute of your dive traveling to your target depth, and only spend 19
minutes at the target depth.
If you have recently been diving, and are still saturated from those dives, there will be an additional
item in the Runtime submenu, which is “Remain. SI”, or “Remaining Surface Interval”. Here you can
configure the number of hours and minutes that you plan to stay at the surface, before going on the dive
that you are planning.
One other thing to remember is that the “Compute Deco” feature might produce unexpected (and
wrong) results if you manually enter waypoints that are breaching your decompression ceiling. As an
example: if you enter a 90m / 300ft waypoint, after which your decompression should start at 42m /
140ft, but you manually overwrite it by creating next waypoint at 30m / 100ft, then you would get
erroneous decompression computations.
