Pro-Dytter Discontinued

OK--I can't really complain about how it works. Nor can I complain about the cost (for me). I bought an used helmet on ebay, great helmet but it squashed my head like a vise. BUT, hidden inside the helmet was this little plastic box.

Yup, a pro dytter - essentially for free. So I sold the helmet and kept the dytter. Now, how to set it up? Dowloaded the manual. Okie dokie. Played with it, followed the instructions, it just blinked at me, sat there and mocked me. After dicking with it for an hour I figured it out. You gotta be fast with your fingers. When it blinks the second time you better push that button during the half second the light comes on or it just sits there and laughs at you. Having read all the reviews about L+B products and their legendary service I am looking at the Optima II. Don't be surprised if you see my dytter for sale in the classified section--but only after I find an Optima II.

Good, easy to read, functional dytter.
Customer service is legendary: if the screen breaks, they will send you another free of charge... cant ask better than that.
Excellent 2nd hand buy.

L&B have the best customer service out of any skydiving company I have come across. They'll hook you up. Need replacement parts? I emailed them and within the hour they had shipped the parts I needed, free of charge. Simply incredible. Support this company because they will support you. Also the products are very easy to use and very effective.

I have been very pleased with the Pro-Dytter. I am starting to really get into RW and it is often easy to lose altitude awareness while using a wrist mount altimeter. With the Pro-Dytter I am able concentrate on the jump. A dytter should never replace a regular altimeter, but it is an excellent tool to add to your kit.

I've only been using my pro-dytter for a few jumps and it's been working great, reliably, etc. I'm very happy with the sound volume. Others have already commented on all the positives, so I'll focus on what, in my opinion, should be added to future versions (they haven't fixed this in the solo)

1) It only beeps if you exceed a certain vertical speed (30mph for 1st and 2nd warning and 65mph for 3rd warning according to manual). So if you end up fighting line twists under a spinning main (a situation where an extra layer of altitude awareness would be welcome), the audible will NOT sound the siren to tell you just busted through your hard-deck. I'm not suggesting the siren should go off and only stop on landing but I wouldn't mind it sounding for a second or two even if I'm under a well functioning main as a reminder to stop aggressive maneuvers once below the hard-deck.

2) It doesn't signal its presence as you exit the plane. It's nice it beeps when the plane flies through 1000ft, but a lot can happen between 1000ft and full altitude. People take their helmets off, audibles can slip away... It would be nice to have it beep on exit, as it first detect some vertical speed to let you know that it's there, activated, with you.

Of course nothing can ever replace visual altitude awareness but if we could make these little devices safer and more useful.. why shouldn't we?

I love my Dytter. I have recently started to free fly and the Pro-Dytter has been very helpful. Larsen & Brusgaard’s customer service is the best in the industry. I have sent my altimeter in for repair (it has been long out of warranty) and they have replaced it with a brand new one and extra batteries at no charge!!!
Thank you Larsen & Brusgaard,

My wife and daughters gave me a Pro Dytter for my last birthday. I'd been meaning to get one for a long time, but hadn't got around to it, so they did that for me (especially after having had an unintentional low pull last year).
I'm "old School" and had never used an audible before, but now I'm wondering how I ever got along without one. I stick the thing inside one of the ear pads in my Mindwarp helmet, which has a pocket for audibles. I wear earplugs anyway when I jump and I find that I can hear the beep tones just fine, without being too loud or shrill. Haven't busted my hard deck yet, so I've only heard that alarm on the ground when I want to check the unit. Being able to change the breakoff setting in the plane is really convenient and easy to do. Now I can concentrate on the dive, instead of repeatedly looking at my dial alti (which I still use) near the end of the freefall.

Early in the season and late in the season I can´t rely on the dytter to go off at all. When it is below freezing on the ground the startup procedure hangs for a few seconds, and some times it takes up to a minute for the beep saing it´s ready to come.
Under canopy at these temperatures I´ve had the alarms at all wrong altitudes and even heard the flatline after i´ve landed (it´s damn loud when not in freefall...).

However if I warm it before I jump, it works just fine.
This could ofcourse be a problem with just mine. Maby I will have to mail L&B and ask them.

A more common problem though, is the clip that holds it. It just breaks for everyone. Mine is cracked and I haven´t even used it on my helmet. I friend lost her dytter and i´ve read a few threads about others loosing theirs.

I would never skydive without one. It is so accurate that I trust it a little to much. I like how once it is zeroed to your dz elevation, you can change your alarm settings while in the plane at any altitude. I now have the Pro-Dytter and will soon get the Pro-Track. What an ultimate set up

I used my Pro track for about a year, and it suddenly started sounding alarm through freefall. I emailed the company and got a responce to send it in. I had a new never opened protrack on my porch in under three weeks. No questions asked. Now thats what I call customer service! Everybody should own one.

The Pro Dytter is a great audible, loud accurate and easy to use. The clip will NOT hold it on your helmet reliably, so use gaffers tape ot tie wraps. If ANYTHING ever goes wrong, even out of warranty, L&B will likely fix it free. They have redefined customer service and taken it to a new level. L&B's customer service is the best I have ever seen in any industry for any product.

This audible has been extremely dependable over the past 3 years. In the last month, the left button has started getting moody, and not registering each time I press it.

Overall: Highly recommended.

I've been using ProDytters since they first came out and I'm still a fanatic about them. These "Audibles" are very functional and dependable, as well as sleek looking and low profile!

I had this one for two years. This is really great device. Its sounds help me to skydive without looking to altimeter. It was very helpful in RW-4way, where no time to loose your attention, it helps me now - when I jump as cameramen. But 5 months ago my lovely Dytter was dead. no reaction on buttons or batteries changing. I sent it to L&B with my comments. They think for some time and today I've god the perfectly new one from L&B. I'll miss my old Dytter (we had two cutaways with it - one from tandem) and I'll be happy with the new one.

Of course I lost my Dytter approx. 3000 feet, because Dytter was fastened with plastic clip... it felt into the Ämari Airfield in 1999 August. I tried to find it, but unsuccessfully. Meanwhile we cut grass with tractors, once burned grass away... Snow and rain is usual thing in Estonia in Oct, Nov , Dec, Jan Feb and March... In July, 2000 one of my friends find this little unit from grass... buttons were burned out and looked very bad, plastic was melt...
Batteries were of course out of any range... So...I installed new batteries and turned it on...
What you think ? Of course it made test sounds and tells that "we are ready to jump".
Well, I used the scissors to set up warning altitudes and here we go.. every sound was on the right place.
What I´m trying to say ? Think about it !
(L&B rules)

I heard a fellow skydiver talking about it, I ask him about it, he told me the best gadget he has bought for skydiving. I bought my on a special even before i bought my helmet, so i can presuade myself to by helmet for it. I used last week and i felt in love with it. its great. You can concentrate more on the skydive, it doesn't matter what you like to do up there, Freefly, RW, ETC. Its accurate and loud.
Cielos Azules
Enjoy

Yeah yeah. It works just fine. Heavy on batteries, and has a useless plastic clip. Throw that thing away as soon as you open the box, or you'll reward those poor designers with an extra sale. My first one went adrift this way, from my sunglasses on a Tandem. The tandem was on video. I heard it go off. No hard opening, or riser strike. I would have felt it as I had no helmet on, or seen it on the video. But it was'nt there after opening.

My second Pro-Dytter I found in the middle of another DZ, in the sand. Doubtless the clip had let its owner down too! (Talk about good Karma!)This one I still have, but the clear screen over the LED's has popped off. I've seen 2 others in this state. Its a shame that so much time and effort was wasted in the final product. It works great! Just wrap it in insulation tape before you use it!

Awsome piece of equipment, only one problem, I had a hell hard opening the other day which caused my dytter to pop out of its plastic clip. So I must recomened to anyone buying one to use some extra zip ties or gaffer tape to fix the dytter to the helmet a bit more secure.

I love my prodytter it is nice to have. I wouldnt feel safe freflying if I didnt have one. I am even going to buy another.

The Pro-Dytter is a very nice audible alti, it's easy to set, almost impossible to accidentally change the settings, loud and very compactly built. I've used mine for over 100 jumps and it's worked perfectly each time.

The battery life is perhaps not as long as claimed, the manual says 1-2 years or 200 jumps; my batteries needed replacing after about 80 jumps over 8 months. This may have been affected by the fact that the Pro-Dytter cannot be turned off. It turns itself on when it detects the pressure change of increasing altitude. This is however very sensitive; I was driving over a hilly stretch of road once and it must have turned on at least a dozen times.

One feature I like a lot is that unlike some other audible alti’s, the Pro-Dytter signals the height of the first alarm by sounding an appropriate series of beeps at 1000 AGL. Other alti’s wait until the alarm height is reached. With the Pro-Dytter is doesn't matter what height you've set it for, you only have to pay attention at 1000 AGL to check it's alarm height. Overall, a first rate audible altimeter.