You Can Now Change Your Own Stinger Battery, Viva La Revolucion!

My Spanish Friends at SubAquaMundo have done the diving community a sincere service taking the equipment maintenance and repair out of the hands of unscrupulous dive shop owners, and empowering the client/customer diver.  Changing a battery or servicing a BCD is not rocket science. 

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The Suunto Stinger (from now on referred to solely as stinger) is one of the most common of all dive computers for recreational scuba diving and rightly so, its a full decompression model, works for both Air and Nitrox and whats more it looks good as a watch on the wrist for everyday use. However the only downfall is that once the battery needs changing it cant be done by the “Stinger” owner it has to be sent away due to specialist tooling that is needed. Now due to a company called Smartinterface from Germany that problem is now over, Smartinterface have tooled a key that fits the “Stinger” perfectly so that you can now change the battery yourself in minutes rather than waiting upto 3 months as is the case here in Spain. I have changed the batteries in loads of “Stingers” since i bought this tool and now im going to show you just how easy it is by taking you through another battery change.
What you need
You will need a flat clean work surface, the “Stinger” key from Smartinterface as well as a new O-ring and battery (again Smartinterface) and a mount to put the stinger in whilst unscrewing the front (the Key, O-ring, Battery and mount all come supplied from Smartinterface for around 25euros).
Step 1
Place mount onto a flat clean surface. (see picture 1)

Step 2
Place “Stinger” onto mount, note the 4 pins to hold it in place. (see picture 2)

Step 3
Place Smartinterface key over the bezel of the “Stinger” it should fit snugly, then holding the palm of one hand onto the watch face (prevent any slipping) turn the key anti-clockwise and remove bezel. (see pics 3 and 4)


Step 4
remove the glass (at what would be 3 oclock on a conventional watch look for a small hole to lever the glass out with a pin) then remove the O-ring and finally the printed plastic decal. (see pic 5)

Step 5
The tricky bit?….. no not really all you need to do is be carefull as underneath the part you are about to remove is a ribbon that connects to the “Stinger Dive Interface”. With a pin carefully lift the component out of the watch casing (taking care not to scratch or damage the contacts, these are clearly visible) (see pic 6)

Step 6
Turn over the component and look for the golden star shaped clasp that holds in the battery, remove this with a pin, (be careful its very springy and has a mind of its own) (see pic 7)

Step 7
All that needs to be done now is to replace the battery and then follow all the steps in reverse order to re-assemble the “Stinger”. See its that easy!

 

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