4. GETTING STARTED WITH YOUR SUUNTO D4

To get the most out of your Suunto D4, take some time to personalize it and really make it YOUR computer. Set the correct time and date, as well as the alarms and tones, unit and backlight settings.

Suunto D4 is a very user-friendly dive computer, and you will quickly become familiar with its functions. Make absolutely sure that you know your computer and have it set up as you want it BEFORE getting into the water.

4.1. TIME mode settings

The first thing you'll want to do with your Suunto D4, is to set the alarm, time, dual time, date, units, backlight, and tones. In this section, we look at how to do this. Before that, however, take a look at the figure below, which shows how to toggle between different shortcuts in the TIME mode.

NOTE

The seconds display reverts to date display after 5 minutes in

 

order to save battery power.

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Suunto manual Getting Started with Your Suunto D4, Time mode settings