Steel Dive Computer

Product Description

The Suunto eon steel wrist computer is the new standard for advanced/technical diving. The long-anticipated eon sets new standards in the diving world with its new brilliantly bright display, fully customizable Interface, rechargeable battery and extremely rugged construction. The eon was designed for divers, by divers and will deliver well beyond your expectations.. full continuous decompression algorithm - Suunto fused rgbm - air/nitrox/trimix support, multi-gas-diving (up to 10 gases) - altitude adjustment 0' to 10, 000' (0 to 3, 000 meters) - ascent rate monitor/alarm and time display, deep stops and safety stops functions, audible and visual alarms, temperature display, transferable dive planner, dive time in seconds and minutes, full decompression data, log book memory and lifetime history, profile sampling rates in seconds, maximum depth alarm and depth display, 4 operation modes: air, ccr, gauge, mixed gas, cns% + otu calculation (olaf) - gas switching during dive, max Po2 adjustment: 0.5 - 1.6 - up to 8 gases, oxygen 5-99%, helium 0-95% - operating temperature: +32 degree F - +104 degree F (0 degree C - +40 degree C - depth rating: 492' (150 meters) - battery power indicator, low battery warning, rechargeable battery.

Features

• Bearing tracking, Cardinal directions, declination setting, guided calibration, heading in degrees, tilt compensated compass, diving interface
• Advanced media isolated pressure sensor, easy to read bright see color display, 3D digital compass
• Wireless air integration w/up to 10 pods with included Suunto tank pod (transmitter)
• Dimensions: 4.12" x 2.38" x 0.91" (104.6 mm x 60.5 mm x 23.1 mm) weight: 12.24 oz. (347 g)
• Includes: eon steel computer, USB cable, quick Guide, legal leaflet, protective boot, display scratch guard sticker, bungee adapter cord

Top Reviews

Best on the market , future proof computer
by Just a regular guy (4 out of 5 stars)
January 17, 2016

Best computer I have ever owned! This computer really does a whole lot of things. Be sure to get the all the software updates from suunto, and you will have this computer for a very long time. It is a solid,rugged all metal computer lacking the cheap plastic you have grown accustom to. The suunto software allows you to customize the data screens to determine which information you want on the screen. Sadly I have heard sunntos cost to make the computer is very high because all high end material was used. Expect some quality changes in the future model releases, which means this eon steel is the one to buy.
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Great dive computer!
by J. Hardin (5 out of 5 stars)
July 15, 2017

Purchased this about 8 months ago and have logged about 25 dives on it, all in southern California. I use it for regular air and Nitrox.

Pros
+Configurable screens - I've been playing around withy screen configurations a lot. When I'm leading the group, I'm in compass mode (which works great), when I'm following I'll be on the 'time remaining' layout. So much info available, and you can 'hide' what you don't want to make the display less confusing while diving.
+Configurable everything - I turned off almost all the beeps. I never remember what they mean underwater anyhow, and I look at my computer often (easy, it's on my wrist!). I also set the deco model to be more conservative as I'd rather shave off a few minutes of dive time than get bent, and I'm not in my 20's any more. And I might have had lots of beer the night before (occasionally!)
+Easy to push buttons with good feedback - On my Cobra 3s the buttons can be hard to push, and my old Cochran Nemesis II with the 'tap the wrist unit' mechanism was a total mess. The three buttons on this computer, even with the protective boot, work nicely with no fuss.
+dependable pairing - So far, no issues what-so-ever with pairing (unlike my old wireless Cochran). It just works. One time it wasn't pairing in a pool training session and I got really frustrated. Turns out I was messing with the tank pod settings during a nitrox class the week before, and it was totally my fault. I got in the pool w/o checking my gauges. I would of course never do that on an open water dive.
+Easy to read - Sometimes at the very shallow depth or at the surface with bright sun it's hard to read, but I'm not doing to much navigating or thinking about air consumption, turn pressure, or no deco times when i'm at at/near the surface, and it's still readable, you just need to angle the screen so the sun reflection angle doesn't interfere. The traditional LCD black on grey is better in direct sunlight, but at least with my Cobra 3s, the screen is smaller and the info is more dense, so I still prefer the Eon Steel.
+"time remaining"- with most air integrated computers, and definitely the Eon Steel, you have a big "number of minutes remaining" countdown to watch... calculated either from your dec limit or air time whichever is less. I like this when I'm on deeper dives, it actually helps me feel a bit more confident staying longer (or the info to leave earlier!) as I have a pre-set 'time remaining' number in mind that's a bit more meaningful than 'turn pressure.' If your buddies also have 'time remaining' you can say 'turn pressure is 1500psi or 15 minutes left, whichever comes first... stuff like that makes the dive plans a little bit more flexible AND safer IMO.

Cons:
- Expensive - but that's all relative to how much money you have, and how much you use it. Right now, amortizing the initial cost over 25 dives, its over $60/dive. Not cheap. I expect by the fall (so it'll be used for 1 year) to have at least another 30 dives on it at least, which will get me down to around $30/dive. It should last me AT LEAST 3 years, which will get me down to ~$10/dive. Worth it for me? Sure! Worth it for someone that takes a single dive vacation/year? Maybe not. Worth it for any divers that do deco diving, staging bottles, tri-mix, or do hundreds of dives / year? Absolutely!
- Recall - They just issued a recall for the tank pod. I just got it fixed up at my local dive shop, so not a huge deal, and I'm glad that Suunto is so safety conscious (two tank pods failed in high pressure testing on their older style pods, so they issued a product wide recall for all Suunto transmitter pods)
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This Computer is INCREDIBLE!
by Master Diver (5 out of 5 stars)
April 24, 2016

I bought this dive computer for a shore diving trip to Bonaire. This is the safest piece of scuba gear i own! The left side has a color bar graph that makes sure that you don't ascend too fast. Green is good and getting yellow is getting fast and red is too fast. Once it starts turning yellow, you exhale and go slightly down to keep it in the green, ascend slow and avoid ascent warnings.

There is also the safety stop information. I would often stay at between 50 and 65 feet. The top of the screen tells you what your next stop is. Normally it would say 35 feet.You go up slow and at 35 feet it begins a countdown. When that is completed the screen would indicate 10, or 10 feet. That would be your final stop.

The sender operated flawlessly to send my tank pressure to the computer. We dove Nitrox and the sender sensed Nitrox instead of Regular air. When I got home I hooked up the computer to Suunto DM5 and it downloaded all of the dives automatically. No ascent warnings.

This computer is expensive, but your dive safety is WELL worth it.
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Great Deal!
by Stacy J (5 out of 5 stars)
May 31, 2016

Don't let the price scare you, if you have been shopping for this in your local dive shop. It is EXACTLY as represented. It is new and it does include the tank pod. Great Deal!
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I love this computer
by John luker (5 out of 5 stars)
October 9, 2016

I love this computer, it has all of the features that I wanted and so much more than I need at this point.
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Eon Steel looks good, works well
by G. Peter Walker (5 out of 5 stars)
June 14, 2015

It took Suunto a few years longer than their competitors to produce a large colour-screen air-integrated dive computer. But the extra time seems to be worth it as they've ironed out many of the problems that the earlier models suffered (e.g. battery life, readability, ease-of-use, computer integration, tank pairing). The Eon Steel looks good, works well and has some useful features. The customisation feature provides a lot of flexibility to select what's relevant on the displays. The unit is strong and well-built. I think this one is going to be on my wrist for a while...
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Best Dive Computer on the Market Today
by WeaselSW (5 out of 5 stars)
January 27, 2015

I have been a diver for over 18 years, starting back in the days when we had to use dive tables to calculate dive times. With dive computers, all that has changed!

My first dive computer was the Suunto Vyper Air, which was decent and did what it was supposed to do, but wasn't exciting at all and the interface was clunky and complicated. The Suunto EON Steel is a HUGE improvement! I pre-ordered the EON Steel at a local dive shop and was excited that they got a few units in before the most recent anticipated "Spring, 2015" release date. Suunto delayed the original release date by over 6 months, which although was disappointing, it shows that Suunto will not release their product until they have fully quality tested it, which in this day and age of easy software and firmware updates is often overlooked (hint hint Garmin!). So, for me, I am glad that they didn't release it until they were satisfied it was working perfectly, and trust me, it was worth the wait!

HARDWARE: Right out of the box, the EON Steel is an impressive dive instrument. First off, its heavier than you would anticipate for its size, which for me is not a drawback... you can't even feel its weight when in the water. Overall, it has an extremely sturdy feel and you can tell that its well built just by holding it. The three buttons on the right are laid out well, and have nice and subtle click when you press them in. The computer/charging cable connection is much better than previous Suunto computers as well... it is basically a large-scale USB connection that accepts a proprietary cable which connects to your computer. Previous Suunto computers (at least my experience with the Vyper Air) had such a clunky connection that fit around the unit, and dropped data connections were regular occurrences. On the EON Steel, however, the connection is solid and to date there has been no dropped data connections.

SETUP & INTERFACE: Upon turning on the EON Steel, it has a brilliant color screen (brightness can be adjusted Low, Mid, High for a battery/performance balance). The interface takes you right into a setup menu to specify units, time and date format, tones, etc. The setup is easy and straightforward. When in the interface, Suunto has really put thought into the layout and making it easy for the user, while in the same time displaying all the information effectively. The layout can be configured to two different setup options, a graphical layout and a statistical layout (which they call Classic). The graphical layout truly does separate this model from anything else on the market! It can display tank pressure (with the transmitter installed), a compass, a no deco timetable, or a timer, all on an easy to read "analog type" gauge reading. You can have up to 4 screens to display each of these different readings, which while diving can be selected by pressing the middle button. Statistical "Classic" screens can also be used (which display the same amount of information) for those who would rather just see the numbers rather than gauge readings. By pressing the top button, it activates or stops a timer which can be used for anything while diving, and by holding in the button, it resets the timer.

CONFIGURATIONS: All configurations are setup through their software (DM5) which can be downloaded from the Suunto website for free. When the EON Steel is connected to your computer, the software allows you to configure not only the amount and type of screens, but also the components that are displayed. You can create multiple dive profiles, and upload them to the EON Steel to easily switch depending on the type of dive. Information configuration is also a nice feature, but fairly limited. For instance, on the upper-left corner, you can choose to display Battery life, Battery life + Time, or Battery Life + Temp. On the lower-left corner, you can display other information such as temp, temp + time, CNS, OTU, PO2, etc. One of the best customization features is the lower-right corner, which is a checkbox custom field where you can check as many different types of information as you want (Avg depth, CNS, Current gas, Dive time, Max depth, OTU, PO2, temp, timer to be exact). When you check multiple items, a simple press of the bottom button while diving cycles though the checked information. Very handy if you want all the info at your fingertips without switching over the entire screen. One drawback, however, is although there are many customizations for information, I found that the software is still a bit limited as to what can be displayed in which corners. For instance, if you want to display the time in the lower-left rather than upper-left, it is not one of the options so you are out of luck. Since the screen is basically a TFT display, I'm not sure why Suunto would limit the options for each of the fields. It's a minor drawback, however, and one that may be fixed with a future update.

The settings on the EON Steel are easy to access, by holding in the middle button. Here you can specify which dive type you want to display (must be specified and customized using the computer software prior to diving), what kind of gas you are using (with support for multiple tanks), and you can also access your logs, or calibrate the compass. As far as logs, the only log information that is displayed are the totals and logs that have been recorded by the EON Steel itself. Personally, I would like to have the ability to enter in my previous dive totals (it separates type of dives in its totals) and dive times, so that the EON Steel would display my TOTAL number of dives and dive time, rather than just what was calculated with this particular unit. Currently, there is no way to do this. This is small, however, and perhaps they will implement this feature in a firmware update.

On the plus side though, any logged dives on the EON Steel can be displayed in a chart format on the screen, which is the FIRST dive computer (that I am aware of) that can show this right on the device, rather than pulling it up on a computer. This is an AWESOME feature for displaying and showing to dive buddies on the boat ride back from a dive site, rather than waiting to upload the data to a computer!

PERFORMANCE: Upon diving, this computer is super accurate and makes diving REALLY FUN! I love the graphical screens with analog type gauges, especially for the compass and air pressure. The compass seems very accurate and sensitive. You can even hold the computer almost horizontal up to your face and the compass still seems head on. When paired with the transmitter pod, the air pressure gauge is easy to see and read, so just on a quick glance, you can see your remaining air and then keep enjoying your surroundings. A large number on the inside of the gauge also displays your pressure for an accurate reading.

On the left side is a bold and colorful ascent meter that rises as you ascend faster. If your ascent becomes too fast, the meter rises and turns yellow, and eventually red indicating that you are ascending too quick. As you reach a computer-determined pressure stop, the gauge fills the screen showing how far you have until your pressure stop, and how much time you need to spend at the stop depth. If you ascend past the pressure stop, the center gauge turns red and eventually beeps at you. Although I have not done it, the instructions say that if you blow past a pressure stop, the computer will calculate the missed stop in your next dive calculations to avoid decompression sickness if possible. I have found the interface for these extremely easy and efficient! After your dive, a very easy to read "No Fly" time is displayed in hours to display when you can next safely fly in a pressurized plane.

The battery life is rated at about 36 hours of dive time, which varies by screen brightness, dive depth and temp. I have found this to hold true so far and have had no issues with battery performance. If configured, the battery display shows the exact number of hours left on the charge, and will send a visual and audible alert when there is 3 hours left.

SOFTWARE: Overall, I think the Suunto DM5 software is decent, but can certainly use some improvements, especially around edits and changes to computer-entered dive logs. For example, the software doesn't allow user-entered manual dive entries of previous dives. Also, trimming needless information off the end of a dive, or changing the date/time of an uploaded dive is next to impossible. I did figure out how to do it by exporting the data, manually changing it with a text editor and importing back to the software, but most people will not know how, or want to do this, so the ability to "Edit" dive information should be native in the software. Besides that, the software does show you graphical charts of dive times and depths, with overlays for air pressure, temperature, and even air consumption. It also displays any warnings or surface points, which is nice to see how you can improve your skills by not triggering warnings (such as too fast ascent or missed pressure stop) or see what you did wrong. The software also displays your tissue saturation as well as overall info such as type of gas, dive time, max depth, etc. Overall the software is good... not great. If Suunto were to improve the software to incorporate manually entered dives and the ability to edit dive information, it would be great software.

OVERALL: In summary, this dive computer is by far the best on the market today! Granted, the price of the EON Steel is extremely high for any piece of equipment, but let's face it, SCUBA Diving in general is not cheap and as with most things, you get what you pay for. Its large and beautiful color screen, easy to use interface and its way of displaying graphical information while diving, all make it SO MUCH FUN to use! With its ascent meter, calculated pressure stops and safety warnings, as well as its easy to understand dive table and no fly display, it also keeps you as safe as possible, which ultimately is most important.

Everything about this computer was well thought out by Suunto and if you are the type who doesn't mind paying a premium for the best of the best... you will NOT be disappointed by this purchase!

Enjoy and dive safe!
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Transmitter pod arrived discharged. Battery is low/red and would ...
by M T (1 out of 5 stars)
August 17, 2016

Transmitter pod arrived discharged. Battery is low/red and would need to be replaced. Beware if buying just before a diving trip.
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THE DIVE WATCH FOR THE SERIOUS DIVER!!
by janice hall (5 out of 5 stars)
August 22, 2015

Best dive Watch My Husband has ever had. Make sure you read the entire manual before your first dive and wear your old dive computer as back up until you familiarize yourself with all aspects of the watch

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