User Manual — full reference

1. Before you start

1.1 What is in the box

1.2 Charging and power

• Charging: plug a USB-C cable into the port on the device.
  • A green light to the left of the USB connector comes on so you can see it is charging. The light goes out when charging is finished.
  • The battery reading refreshes about every 10 seconds, so you can also watch the percentage climb while it charges.
• Turning it on: hold the physical power button for about 3 seconds. After the splash screen it spends about 5 seconds setting the zero point.
  • ⚠️ While it is zeroing, do not hold the Equal Vent to your nose or put any pressure into the tube — leave it at ambient pressure. The baseline it takes here decides how accurate everything after it is.
• Turning it off: two ways.
  • Hold the physical power button for about 3 seconds
  • Press [Power] on the main screen
• Auto off: it switches itself off after the set idle time (9.4).
• Low battery protection: below 15% it beeps at intervals; below 5% it counts down 10 seconds, saves the measurement and shuts down. Charge it when you hear the warning (it does not trigger while charging).

1.3 SD card

• It goes in the slot on the device, and you can insert and remove it while the device is on.
• It is used for measurement files and screenshots.
• You can measure and save without a card, using the internal memory (see 6.2 for the difference).
• Firmware updates no longer need an SD card either — a USB cable is enough (10.1).
• A card formatted as exFAT is recommended (firmware 2.5a and later). An exFAT card opens right away when connected to a PC or Mac. FAT32 cards also work, but they take a long time to open when connected, and sometimes do not open on a Mac at all.
  • With a card that is not exFAT, the device suggests formatting it at startup, when you insert the card, and when you start USB file transfer. [Later] asks again next time, and [Don't ask again] turns the suggestion off (you can turn it back on in settings).
  • You can also format from the "SD card" item in settings (9.4; Breath mode: 8.8).
  • Formatting erases every file on the card, including files from other devices, so back up what you need to a PC first (6.8).
• Card size does not matter. 32 GB and under or 64 GB and up are read as they are, and the card from your action camera is fine. Measurement files are tiny — 8 GB lasts years.

If you are on firmware v1.1g or older — it cannot read cards of 64 GB and up (exFAT). Format a card as FAT32 and update to the latest version first, then format it as exFAT again and use it.

1.4 Specifications

2. Basic measurement

2.1 Getting ready — stand, connections, wearing

The Equal Vent comes already attached to the tube. The first time, you only need to connect the tube to the device. How to take off the tube and the Equal Vent is here for cleaning (10.3) or swapping the Equal Vent.

The stand

In the bag, the stand fits over the device and covers and protects the connector. On the desk, stand the device up or lean it back in the stand for a comfortable viewing angle. From the side it has two steps, so you can choose the angle. When it leans back, the stand's lower front step and top step both lock into the grooves on the bottom and back of the device, so it won't slip. When you're not using Equalscope, it works as a phone stand too.

Connecting the tube to the device

Push the metal connector on the end of the tube onto the connector on the device. Where you hold it matters. The metal ring at the front of the connector moves back and forth by itself as it clicks into place, and it has to slide back for the connector to come off.

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Fitting and removing the tube (valve)

Push the tube all the way into the black ring on either side of the valve and it locks in place. To take it out, hold the black ring down and pull the tube.

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Fitting and removing the Equal Vent

Push the tube all the way into the fitting at the tail of the Equal Vent and it locks in place. To take it out, hold the ring at the end of the fitting down and pull the tube.

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Before you measure

1. Switch on, wait for the zeroing to finish, and you are ready to measure.
2. You hold the Equal Vent up to your nose when you measure — line up the holes on the front of the Equal Vent with your nostrils. (Do this after you start the measurement — see 2.3.)

2.2 Using the pressure relief valve

• The graduated dial sets how much air bleeds out. The higher the number, the more pressure escapes.
• How to use it: to change the setting, pull the valve out and turn it; to lock it there, push it back in.
• It indirectly simulates the air in your mouth running out, so you can practise the techniques that matter at depth — mouthfill above all — on dry land, over and over.
• Because the dial is graduated, it is easy to set the same conditions again next time.

2.3 How a measurement runs

press [Start] → equalize (live graph) → [Stop] → saved automatically → [Stats]

1. [Start] — begins the measurement. The graph is drawn live.
2. Measure — hold the Equal Vent up to your nose and equalize. Current, minimum and maximum pressure are shown as numbers and on the graph.
3. [Stop] — when you stop, the result is saved automatically (6.1).
4. [Stats] — after stopping, the [Start] button becomes [Stats]. Press it to see the pattern analysis (chapter 5).
5. To measure again, press [Reset] to clear the graph.

2.4 Reading the main screen

While you measure, the main screen shows all of this at once.

• Three pressure values — current / minimum (▼) / maximum (▲), in hPa
• Stopwatch — top left, elapsed time (hh:mm:ss)
• Battery — top right
• Live graph — in the middle. It tracks the run so far with an orange line for the highest point and a red line for the lowest (chapter 4 covers this in detail)

3. Screen controls

3.1 The five buttons

There are five buttons along the bottom of the main screen. [Start] [Files] [Reset] [Set] [Power]

3.2 Gestures

Tapping is for the moment when one hand is busy holding the Equal Vent to your nose. Give the device a light tap where it sits on the table and the measurement starts; tap it once more to stop. You do not have to hit a button accurately.

It does not respond while you are holding it in your hand. Only a tap on a device that was sitting still counts. If it misses your taps or reacts too easily, adjust Tap sensitivity (9.4).

4. Reading the graph

On the live graph in the middle of the main screen, the horizontal axis is time and the vertical axis is pressure (hPa). It samples at 40 Hz (40 times a second), so the pressure in your mouth and ears is drawn almost in real time.

4.1 What is on the graph

4.2 The numbers at the top

Three pressure values are shown live above the graph.

• Current pressure — the pressure at this moment
• Minimum (▼) — the lowest value since the measurement started
• Maximum (▲) — the highest value since the measurement started

The stopwatch (elapsed time) sits in the top left and the battery in the top right.

4.3 The training band (pressure alarm range)

Turn the pressure alarm on in settings (9.2) and the range you set between the minimum and maximum is drawn on the graph as a shaded band, with dotted lines along the top and bottom edges.

• Use it to keep your equalization inside a target range while you watch it happen.
• If the pressure leaves the range, the device sounds an alarm (as long as the volume is up).

4.4 Zooming and scrolling

• Pinch (two fingers apart or together) — zooms the time axis in and out, to look closely at a short stretch or see the whole session at once.
• Swipe (one finger, left or right) — scrolls the graph sideways while zoomed in. Your line and the reference line move together.

The zoom level is shown at the bottom right (x1, 1/2 and so on). You can change the starting zoom in settings (9.3).

5. Session analysis

When you stop a measurement it is saved automatically and the [Start] button becomes [Stats]. Press it to see the numbers, the pattern verdict and a message of advice.

5.1 Reading the numbers

Here is what the figures on the analysis screen mean. Which ones you see depends on the pattern — oscillating patterns (the Valsalva and Frenzel family) get peak-based figures, while sustained patterns (mouthfill) get stability-based ones.

Shown for every session

Oscillating patterns (Valsalva / Frenzel / mouthfill Frenzel / BTV)

A feel for the rise and fall speeds: the unit is hPa/s, and a bigger number means a faster change. (The label already says "speed", so the unit is left off the screen.)

Sustained pattern (mouthfill)

5.2 The six patterns

Equalscope weighs up the shape of the curve and sorts it into one of six technique patterns.

5.3 Confidence in the verdict

A confidence figure (%) may be shown next to the pattern. It says how clear-cut the verdict is.

• High (clear) — the curve is close to the textbook form of that pattern.
• Around 50% (borderline) — halfway between two patterns. It might be, say, "half Valsalva and half Frenzel".
• Low (inconsistent) — read this as a sign that your technique was not consistent through the session.

A short session with only a few equalizations is not given a pattern; it shows “There is not enough data in this segment for a detailed analysis.” A mouthfill filled once and held for a long time is still analysed.

5.4 Quality grade and warnings

The verdict comes with a quality grade and any warnings.

Quality grade

• Oscillating patterns: the more even your peaks, the better the grade — you equalized with a similar strength every time.
• Sustained pattern (mouthfill): the grade comes from how steadily you held the pressure.

Warnings (shown when they apply)

5.5 Depth Interval analysis (firmware 2.5 and later)

If you record with Depth Interval (7.1) turned on, the analysis does not name a technique for each block. It shows whether you equalized on the beat you set and when you switched to mouthfill.

• The summary at the top: the blocks (for example 2s x5, 4s x5, 8s x2), when mouthfill started and how long you held it.
• If you mark the mouthfill block with [MF] in the interval editor (7.1), it tells you whether you filled early or late, in alarms and seconds. Filling after the last alarm of the previous block, up to around the first alarm of that block, counts as on time.
• Then each block: how many alarms you equalized on, and how far ahead of or behind the alarm you were on average. During mouthfill it counts how many alarms you equalized on; if you simply held the air, it just says so.
• Warnings such as overpressure or negative pressure come at the bottom as usual.
• Sessions recorded with the interval off are analysed as one whole, as before.

5.6 Making use of the advice

At the bottom of the analysis screen is a message of advice matched to the pattern and the quality. (For example: "There is still some Valsalva in this. Ease off the abdominal effort and work on delivering a short push with the tongue.")

Open the same recording again and you get the same advice, but a different recording is described differently.

⚠️ This analysis and advice are for reference, based on the measured pressure pattern. They are not a medical diagnosis or a guarantee of safety. Train under the supervision of a qualified instructor.

5.7 Comparison (firmware 2.2 and later)

Open another recording while a reference is loaded and the [Stats] button becomes [Vs Ref]. Press it and you first get a table with the two sets of numbers side by side, then a few lines saying what has changed. The analysis of the current recording follows as usual.

How to use it — in the Reference tab (6.5), [Open] the recording you want to compare against, then go back to [Files] and open the one you want to look at. A session you have just finished works too.

The number of equalizations is not compared. Negative pressure is judged by depth, not by how often it appeared.

In these cases it does not compare, and tells you why.

• When a mouthfill recording is set against a non-mouthfill one — mouthfill has almost no oscillation, so it is analysed differently
• When one of the two is split into blocks (Depth Interval and the like)
• When a recording is too short to settle on a technique

Even when it cannot compare, the analysis of the current recording appears as usual.

6. Managing files

6.1 Automatic saving and the file format

Stop a measurement and the result is saved automatically.

• File name: EQ0001_120s.csv
  • EQ + a four-digit number (one higher each measurement) + the length in seconds
  • For example EQ0042_23s.csv is the 42nd measurement, 23 seconds long
• Format: CSV, with the columns Time(ms), Pressure(hPa), Max, Min
• Automatic trimming: the empty stretches at the start and end (zero pressure) are cut off and only the real signal is saved. If there is almost no signal, or it is very short, nothing is saved.

Files go to the SD card if one is fitted, and to the internal memory if not. If there is a problem with the card it saves to the internal memory instead and says so on screen.

When a measurement ends, the name of the saved file appears at the bottom of the screen (firmware 2.3 and later). It stays there until you touch the screen, so it is easy to find that session in the list later.

It saves even if you never press stop. If no pressure arrives for one minute after you have been equalizing, the device treats the session as finished and saves it. Walk away and leave the device running, and your recording is still there.

• In interval training with rests between sets, starting again within a minute keeps it in one file rather than breaking it up.
• If you equalize again after it has auto-saved, that part is not recorded. To record it, press [Stop] and then [Start] again.
• If you only pressed start and did nothing, no file is created.

6.2 Internal memory vs SD card

6.3 A tour of the file screen

Press [Files] on the main screen to open the list of saved measurements.

• Three tabs along the top: Internal / SD Card / Reference
• Files are shown 21 to a page (3 columns × 7 rows), newest first.
• If there is more than one page, swipe left and right to turn it. (The bottom shows something like 1/2 32 files.)
• Tap a file to select it.

6.4 The Internal and SD tabs

Select a file in the Internal or SD tab and these buttons become available. [Open] [Copy] [Ref] [Del] [Close]

6.5 The Reference tab and training against a reference graph

The reference graph is the heart of training with Equalscope. It lays a model pattern in the background and draws your live graph over the top, so you can follow it or compare against it.

How people use it: an instructor measures a model equalization pattern and hands it out as a reference → the student loads it into the background and trains by following it.

Select a file in the Reference tab and the buttons change. [Open] [Unset] [Edit] [Del] [Close]

Open another recording while a reference is loaded and you get a comparison of the two (5.7).

Reference files live in the internal memory, so they survive removing the SD card. The zoom stays where you had it, so patterns of different widths (Valsalva, Frenzel and so on) can be compared at the same scale.

6.6 Deleting or copying several files at once

Press [Del] or [Copy] to start picking files. Both work the same way.

• Tap the files one by one to pick several (the bottom shows selected / total)
• [All] picks every file on the current page. Press it again to clear them
• Press the same button ([Del] or [Copy]) again to confirm, or [Close] to cancel
• If files with the same name already exist where you copy to, the confirmation shows how many will be overwritten. While copying, the progress count is shown, and when it is done the screen moves to the tab you copied to

6.7 Screenshots

Tap the screen with three fingers and it is captured as an image straight away. Handy for keeping an analysis or a graph as feedback material.

• Where they go: saved as PNG in the capture/ folder on the SD card.
  • An SD card is required. Without one you get "Insert SD card".
• File name: SCR_00292_EQ0206_21s.png
  • SCR_ + a five-digit number + the name of the measurement file you had open
  • So a capture taken with a particular measurement on screen matches back to that measurement by name alone.
• To stop accidental bursts, captures are spaced about 2 seconds apart.

In practice: capture a student's analysis screen and you can go over the pressure pattern together afterwards, or set two sessions beside each other.

Viewing captures on the device

You can look through them on the device without moving anything to a PC. Press the [Shots] tab on the file screen.

• An SD card is required. Without one the tab is greyed out.
• Tap a file to select it, then press [Open].
• [Edit] renames, [Del] deletes. Deleting several at once works the same way as 6.6.

• Move with the arrows, or swipe left and right.
• The full screen icon (second from the left) clears the text and buttons so you see only the picture. Touch the screen to bring them back.

• [4 up] puts four on one screen. You can also press [4 up] straight from the list.
• Tap one and it opens large; [1 up] goes back.
• Swiping does not work in this view — it would clash with tapping a panel. Use the arrows instead.
• [Del] is locked in this view — there is no way to tell which one you mean. Open one large first, then delete.

6.8 Moving files to a PC (USB drive mode)

Connect the device to a PC with a USB cable and it appears as a removable drive, so you can copy files straight off it.

1. Long-press the [Connect] button for 1.5 seconds on the USB row in settings.
   • (The long press is deliberate, so a stray tap cannot switch the USB connection on and off.)
2. On the screen that asks what you want to do, press [File Transfer]. (For [Firmware Update] see 10.1.)
3. Once it appears as a drive on the PC, copy your measurement CSV files (the session/ folder) and screenshots (the capture/ folder), then eject it safely.
4. Long-press the device screen for 1.5 seconds to go back to the normal screen.

· Measurement is suspended while USB drive mode is on. It works normally again once you leave.

· Screenshots only ever go to the SD card, so the card has to be in for them to show up over USB.

· If the SD card is not exFAT, a format suggestion appears when you press [File Transfer]. Press [Later] to go straight on to file transfer (1.3).

· Without an SD card, [File Transfer] cannot be selected — the card is the only thing exposed this way. To get files out of the internal memory, copy them to the SD card in the file screen first (6.4).

6.9 Renaming files

Long-press a file for about a second in the list to rename it. It works in all three places — Internal, SD Card and Reference. The Reference tab also has an [Edit] button.

The Internal and SD tabs have no room for the button, so a note appears at the bottom of the screen: "Tip: long-press to rename" (firmware 2.4 and later). Select a file and the name of that file takes its place.

• This device has no clock, so files carry no date. A number alone makes it hard to tell when a measurement was taken or whose it was. Putting something like 0728 HW at the front helps.
• The list is sorted by name. Change the front of a name and the order changes with it — put initials first to group by person, or keep the number first to keep them in order of recording.
• The on-device keyboard is letters and numbers only. If you need other characters, rename the file on a PC and put it back on the card.
• If the name is already taken, it tells you and leaves the name alone — nothing gets overwritten.
• Breath training records are renamed with the [Edit] button (long-press works too), but there only the middle name part changes (8.7).

7. Depth interval training

Equalization settles into a steady rhythm when you repeat it at regular intervals. Equalscope gives you two tools for that.

7.1 Depth Interval

It mimics the depth stages of a descent with time intervals, so you can rehearse a depth-matched equalizing rhythm on land. (The device does not measure actual depth.)

Set up (interval × count) for each block and, from the moment you start measuring, you get a beep and a visual cue in that order. It is a tool for training your equalization rhythm against a descent plan.

• Where it lives: settings page 1 — the Depth Interval toggle and the [Edit Intervals] button (9.2)
• The editor: up to four blocks, each set as interval (seconds) × count.
  • Interval 0 = block off (that block is skipped)
  • Below one second it steps in 0.1 s (0.1 → 0.9 → 1 → 2 → …), for training a fast repeated rhythm.
  • Count 0 = endless (∞) — it keeps beeping at that block's interval. Here the alarm alternates between a high and a low note, which makes the beat easier to follow.
  • The total count and total time are shown live at the top, so you can see how long the whole sequence runs
  • [MF] = mouthfill from this block (firmware 2.5 and later) — press [MF] on the block where you switch to mouthfill; it lights from that block to the end. Press it again to turn it off. The analysis uses this mark to tell you whether you filled early or late (5.5).
• How it runs: it starts at block 1 the moment you press [Start]. The alarm times line up with the graph's time axis, so you can trace them afterwards on the graph itself.
• An example: "2 s × 5 → 4 s × 5 → 8 s × 5" — frequent early in the descent, spreading out as you go deeper, so you can plan your equalization frequency by depth and train to it. With a single block on endless repeat it works as a plain metronome.
• Alarm markers on the graph: each alarm leaves a vertical line on the graph, with an alarm number at the bottom that starts again from 1 in each block (firmware 2.5 and later), so "block 2, after alarm 3" in the analysis can be found on the graph. They move with the zoom and scroll, so you can check "the alarm versus what I actually did" and work on your rhythm.
• MF mark: the first alarm of the block you set with [MF] shows a yellow dashed line and "MF" instead of a number. While measuring, the graph keeps the last second on the right empty, so the MF mark shows up one second ahead and you can get ready to fill.
• The line under the graph: with Depth Interval on, it shows the plan before you start (for example "Depth Interval 2sx5, 4sx5, MF 8sx2") and where you are while measuring (for example "Depth Interval Seg 2 3/5"). A loaded record's name takes this place first.
• [Preview] (bottom of the editor, off by default): when on, the empty graph shows the alarm positions as faint dotted lines and numbers before you start, and the next alarms show in the last second on the right while measuring. To learn the beat by feel, keep it off. The MF mark still shows one second ahead.
• Kept in the record: the alarm positions are stored in the measurement CSV, so the markers are still there when you open the file again later.

7.2 Stopwatch

While you measure, the elapsed time is shown live as hh:mm:ss in the top left of the main screen. It gives you the training time at a glance, and works with Depth Interval for keeping track of interval sessions.

8. Breath training (CO2 / O2)

Equalscope has a second mode, separate from equalization measurement. Breath training mode takes you through breath-holds and recovery breathing to a table, building CO₂ tolerance and hypoxic tolerance as dry training. It keeps the time, guides you by voice, and saves the session as a record.

⚠️ Never use this in water. Breath training is done out of the water, sitting or lying down safely. Breath-hold training in water must be done with a buddy or an instructor, and this device does not take their place.

8.1 Switching modes

• When you switch on, a screen appears asking which of the two modes you want.
• If you would rather not see it, turn off Ask mode on boot in settings. It then goes straight into the Default mode.
• To change modes while you are using it, press [Switch] in that mode's settings. After you confirm, it saves and restarts (it will not switch during a measurement).

8.2 Reading the home screen

• Top left — the name of the table you have chosen
• Top centre — 8R / 21:00 means 8 rounds, 21 minutes in total
• The list — breathe time / hold time for each round. Scroll up and down if there are many rounds.
• Buttons along the bottom — [Start] [Files] [Tables] [Setup] [Power]

8.3 Choosing a table

Training follows a table: a plan with a breathe time and a hold time for every round. What you increase and what you keep fixed decides what the session trains.

These four tables are built in. They cannot be deleted or edited; instead, pressing [Edit] creates a new table using their values as a starting point.

• Top right, Total 8. 1/2 — how many tables there are and which page you are on. Turn pages with the left and right arrows.
• The tag on the right — preset is a built-in table, mixed is one you made yourself.
• Name your tables in plain letters and numbers. The table name goes straight into the record's file name, and the on-device keyboard is letters and numbers only.

8.4 Building your own table

Press [Add] in the table list to open the editor. You can keep up to 50 tables, and one table can have up to 30 rounds.

• The editor — select a round in the list and change the breathe and hold times with [-] and [+] below. [Add] puts in another round and [Del] takes one out. The name goes in the field at the top.
• [Auto] — fills everything in from a rule, instead of pressing your way through it.
  • CO2 / O2 — which kind of table to build
  • Rounds — how many times to repeat
  • Breathe start · step — the breathe time for the first round, and how much to add each round (negative to shorten)
  • Hold start · step — the same for the hold
  • PB ratio % — what percentage of your static personal best the hold should start at. Change it and the Hold start just below is recalculated (enter your PB in 8.8)
  The bottom line previews the values of the last round and the total time, so you can check before pressing [Fill] whether the table is too long or too punishing.

⚠️ Build the table for yourself. If someone else's table, or a preset, is hard work, then cutting rounds or shortening times is the right answer. Finishing a table is not the goal.

8.5 Training

• Told apart by colour — blue is breathe, orange is hold. The big number in the middle is the time left, and below it is which round you are on.
• Top corners — the planned time for this round on the left, for the next round on the right.
• The bar at the bottom — how far through the whole session you are. Time gone on the left, time left on the right.
• [Pause] — pauses. Press again to carry on.
• [Stop] — ends the session. What you did up to that point is still saved.

During a hold, a belly movement graph is drawn along the bottom of the screen. Rest the device on your belly and your contractions show up here — 8.6 covers this separately.

Voice guidance

Voice guidance runs alongside. You do not have to watch the screen, so you can train with your eyes closed.

• It calls out Breathe / Hold when the phase changes
• It calls the time at every minute, 30 sec, 10 sec and 5·4·3·2·1 remaining
• The first hold starts competition style — 3·2·1 → official top → plus 1~5. It is there to give you the feel of a real start, and happens once, in the first round
• The voice is English. The volume is set in settings

Each item can be switched on and off (firmware 2.3 and later). Sound is your only information when you train with your eyes closed, but there are also stretches where you would rather have quiet. The five items — Every min · 30 sec · 10 sec · Countdown · Official Top +1~5 — are switched separately. You can also pick a female or male voice. See 8.8 for the detail.

8.6 Measuring contractions (firmware 2.4 and later)

Hold your breath long enough and your belly starts to twitch by itself — the body's signal to breathe. These are contractions. When the first one arrives, how many there were, and how the gaps close up are an indicator of where you are.

Rest the device on your belly while you train and it counts them for you.

How to place it

• Lie down and simply rest it on your belly. No strap, no pressing it down.
• It only watches during the hold.
• It has nothing to do with equalization measurement — you do not need the tube connected.

What you see while training

• The graph at the bottom draws your belly movement live. A contraction shows up as a clear spike.
• The width of the graph is scaled to the hold time of that round. When the line reaches the right-hand edge, the round is over — so the time left is visible as a picture too.
• During the breathe phase the picture of the hold you just did stays on screen, so you can look back at it.

When the session ends

A line is added to the record for each round. It only appears for rounds that had contractions.

• How many — how many arrived in that round
• First — the time from the start of the hold to the first contraction
• Gap — the average gap between contractions

Reviewing the graph

• Open a record and press [Graph] to see that round's trace again. ◀ ▶ below moves between rounds.
• The orange marks along the top are where a contraction was counted. Below the graph each one is listed with its time and strength.
• The triangle on the time scale below the graph marks the first contraction (firmware 2.4b and later).
• Pinch to zoom and drag sideways to pan (firmware 2.4b and later). Your position is kept when you move between rounds, so you can compare the same stretch across rounds. Graphs from recordings made with earlier firmware cannot be zoomed.

  

• Turn on the Filter switch at the top right for the graph with the small ripples taken out. Use it to see with your own eyes which peaks were counted.
• Turn on the Gap switch at the bottom right and the list shows the time since the previous contraction, from the second item on (for example 1:18(0.23) / +3.8(0.19)). Turn it off and you are back to clock times.
• Bellies move by different amounts, so the vertical scale can be changed in settings (8.8). If the trace looks flat, lower the scale; if the peaks hit the ceiling, raise it.

8.7 Training records

• The completion screen — how many rounds you did, the planned time and the actual time, and where it was saved (SD card or internal memory). Finish the whole table and the two times are almost the same. [Stop] partway through and the actual time is shorter, and time spent paused does not count towards it — only the time you really trained is kept. If there is a problem with the SD card it saves to the internal memory instead and says so.
• The record list — the tabs at the top switch between internal memory and SD card. Higher numbers are more recent.
• Renaming — select a record and press [Edit]. Long-pressing it in the list works just as well. This device has no clock, so records carry no date. Writing something like 0728 HW makes them easy to tell apart later.
• [Copy] moves records between the internal memory and the SD card, and [Del] removes them. Both can handle several records at once (6.6).

• The top summarises the total rounds, the actual time, and whether you finished or stopped.
• The table below is breathe / hold / finish time per round. The finish time counts from the start of the session.
• Under rounds that had contractions is one more line with how many, when the first came, and the average gap (8.6). Press [Graph] to see the trace from that round.
• Records are CSV files, so you can move them to a PC and open them in Excel or Google Sheets (6.8).

8.8 Breath mode settings

Breath mode settings run to three pages. The left and right arrows turn them.

Page 1 — mode switch · training values · sound · USB

Page 2 — voice guidance (firmware 2.3 and later)

Switch the guidance on and off item by item, and keep only what you want. They are listed in the order you actually hear them.

The Breathe / Hold calls at each phase change are always there. They cannot be switched off.

Page 3 — mode · Lang · SD card

The settings for equalizing mode are separate, in chapter 9. The two modes keep their settings independently, and only Ask mode on boot, Default mode, the mode switch and SD card appear identically on both sides. Voice, Lang and Suggest exFAT are shared values — change them in either mode and they change in both.

9. Settings

Press [Set] on the main screen to open them. Settings run to five pages; the left and right arrows turn them.

The settings pages at a glance

Below, the items are grouped by what they do, with the page each one lives on.

9.1 Display

9.2 Sound

Min alarm steps more finely the closer it is to zero. Between -1.0 and 1.0 it steps by 0.1, outside that by 1, and past ±5.0 by 5.

Turn Official top on and pressing [Start] no longer begins the measurement straight away. The voice calls 3 · 2 · 1 → official top, and measurement, stopwatch and Depth Interval all begin at the official top. Then plus 1 ~ 5 follows.

• It matches how a real competition runs, so it is used when a competition is coming up, to get the feel of the start.
• Nothing is measured during the countdown, so the preparation time does not end up in the graph.
• Touch the screen during the countdown to cancel.
• It uses the same English guidance as breath training mode (8.5). The female / male choice follows the same setting too.

9.3 Graph

9.4 Other

Tap to start is for the moment when one hand is busy holding the Equal Vent to your nose. Give the device a light tap where it sits on the table and the measurement starts; tap again to stop.

• It does not respond while you are holding it — only a tap on a device that was sitting still counts.
• If it misses your taps, raise the sensitivity; if brushing the desk sets it off, lower it.

9.5 The buttons along the bottom

These sit at the bottom of the settings screen. [Save] [Reboot] [Help] [Reset] [Close]

Reset only resets the settings. Your saved measurements, screenshots and the file counter (the number the next measurement will get) are left alone. Nothing you recorded is deleted.

Changes are kept only if you press [Save]. Close without saving and some of them will not stick.

10. Care and updates

10.1 Firmware updates

There are two ways to update. Over a USB cable, which needs no SD card, or with an SD card as before. Neither needs any software installed on the PC.

New firmware is at equalscope.kr/en/download. Two files are posted, and they are for different things.

• equpdate_….uf2 — for the USB cable (method 1)
• equpdate_….bin — for the SD card (method 2)

Method 1 — USB cable (no SD card)

1. Connect the device to a PC with a USB cable.
2. Long-press the [Connect] button on the Settings → USB row for 1.5 seconds, then press [Firmware Update].
3. When the device is ready, a drive called EQ UPDATE appears on the PC.
4. Drag the .uf2 file you downloaded onto that drive. A progress bar fills on the device while it copies — that is the firmware being written.
5. When the copy finishes the device asks you to [Restart]. Press it and it comes up on the new firmware.

· Do not unplug the cable while it copies. If it does come out, the device still starts on the old firmware — just begin again.

· Nothing is stored on this drive. It exists to receive the update file. Open it and you will find a note (README.TXT) with the current version.

· Put a .bin file on it and the device tells you it is not an update file. Over USB, use the .uf2.

· ★ Firmware v2.0 and older does not have this feature. If you are on one of those, update once with the SD card method below — after that the USB cable is all you need.

Method 2 — SD card

1. Copy the .bin file you downloaded (it starts with equpdate_) into the top (root) folder of the SD card.
2. Put the card in the device and switch it on.
3. During start-up the device finds the firmware file by itself, updates and restarts.
4. When it is done, the firmware file on the card is deleted automatically.

· Because it deletes itself, the same version will not be installed again at the next start-up.

· You can check the current firmware version at the bottom of the Settings → Help screen.

10.2 Zeroing and sensor accuracy

• It re-zeroes every time you switch it on. For an accurate measurement, do not put any pressure on the Equal Vent at power-on — leave it at ambient pressure (1.2).
• If the pressure changes while it zeroes, it zeroes again (firmware 2.5b and later). Connecting the tube or putting pressure into the tube while it zeroes mixes that pressure into the zero, and then everything you measure that day is off by the same amount. When this happens, "Pressure changed - measuring again" appears and it zeroes again. Holding the device in your hand while it starts is fine.
  • If the pressure keeps changing it skips the zero. A note stays at the bottom of the screen, and it zeroes when you press [Start] instead.
  • When you see that note, let go of the tube and press [Start].
• The sensor is calibrated for accuracy before it ships.

10.3 Storage and cleaning

• ⚠️ The device is not waterproof. Never wash it. Keep water away from it.
• ⚠️ Do not leave it anywhere hot. That means a car in summer, a sunny windowsill, or near a heater. A closed car reaches 60–70 °C in midsummer — do not leave it in the car.
  • The battery: lithium batteries left hot for long periods swell and lose much of their life, and rarely there is a risk of fire. This is the more important of the two.
  • The case: it is 3D printed, so long periods above 50 °C can warp it.
• Equal Vent: there is an insert nut inside, so it is not suited to washing. Wipe the part that touches your nose with a wet wipe and dry it straight away. If the inside needs cleaning, use a cotton bud.
• Hygiene (personal and shared): the Equal Vent touches the area around the nose and mouth, so one per person is recommended. Where several people share one, as in a class, wipe the contact area with a disinfectant wipe and let it dry completely between users.
• Tube: take off all the fittings, wash it with water and dry it thoroughly before use. See 2.1 for how to take them off.
• Battery: if you are not going to use the device for a long time, store it charged.

11. Troubleshooting (FAQ)

12. Safety

• Do breath training (breath-holds) out of the water only. You can lose consciousness without warning. Never do it alone, while driving, or beside water, and in water always train with a buddy or an instructor.
• Do not hyperventilate before a hold. It greatly increases the risk of blackout.
• This is not a medical device. The measurements and analysis are a training aid and a reference, not grounds for a diagnosis or a guarantee of safety.
• Do not force the pressure. Over-pressurizing can injure you. Ease off when you see the over-pressure warning (5.4).
• Do not leave it anywhere hot. Long periods at high temperature, as in a car in summer, can make the battery swell or, rarely, catch fire. See 10.3 for storage.
• Do all equalization and freediving training under the supervision of a qualified instructor.
• The advice in the analysis is information for reference, based on the measured pressure pattern.