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Heart rate monitor with avg HR, max, min, time, stop watch for under$40?
Can anyone recommend a HR monitor (wris****ch and strap) for under $40
that does all this and gets good, consistent readings.. Preferably one that doesnt need wet or gels etc.. Any thoughts out there? Thanks |
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Heart rate monitor with avg HR, max, min, time, stop watch forunder $40?
On Feb 27, 5:08*am, markm75 wrote:
Can anyone recommend a HR monitor (wris****ch and strap) for under $40 that does all this and gets good, consistent readings.. Preferably one that doesnt need wet or gels etc.. Any thoughts out there? Thanks I had a Ciclosport HAC4 that did all that and a vast amount more; it is a heart rate monitor, an Alpine computer and a bike computer all in one. It cost 300 Euro and lasted less than three years before it broke. I didn't use all its functions and found its lack of sturdiness unacceptable even now they're down to under a hundred Euro at the discounters. I replaced it the HAC4 with a Sigma PC9 which cost around 42 Euro from my local convenient bike part pusher, Chainreaction (their USP is the very valuable zero delivery charge on top of good prices and fast response). The Sigma PC seems sturdy and works very conveniently once you have worked out the logic of the five buttons. It has everything you want, except that you will have to catch the max and min heartrate on the screen as it happens, because its report is aimed at telling you how long you were in each of three bands which you can set manually or permit it to set for you once you tell it your age and your weight. It does report the average heart rate, time, calories burned, and has cumlative stores for time exercising and calories burned. The stop watch can be paused. It reports in either metric or imperial measures. I'll tell you what I miss on the PC9 from the multitudinous features of the HAC4, and you can judge from that how good the PC9 is: I miss the altimeter and the temperature and I used the countdown function a couple of times when I first got the HAC4 but later would just watch the clock to see if three minutes elapsed to see how my heart rate settled down when I stopped. All those facilities are trival. To a more serious exerciser or rider, the computer link of the HAC4 might be useful but I merely used it as a gimmick to send my physician, who's a chum and a biker, snapshots of rides. The HAC4 has a semi- useless backlight that stays on for about a second at a time. The PC4 has no light but I taped a cheap booklight to the handlebars to light it permanently; much more convenient if you regulate your pedalling by your heartrate rather than by cadence. In short, the PC9 has more than enough features for a heart rate monitor, it works well, it seems sturdy enough, the buttons are suitable for pressing with gloves, the display is good to read with alphanumerical as well as bar graph reports, I do not see that the breast belt is any more cheaply-made than the one that comes with the elite HAC4 (for which a replacement belt costs more than the entire Sigma PC9...). I don't understand your remark about consistency; I would expect consistency because the relevant electronics are cheap; and in fact the PC9 reports the same heartrate at the same speed on known hills. HTH. Andre Jute http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/B...20CYCLING.html |
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Heart rate monitor with avg HR, max, min, time, stop watch forunder $40?
On Feb 27, 12:08*am, markm75 wrote:
Can anyone recommend a HR monitor (wris****ch and strap) for under $40 that does all this and gets good, consistent readings.. Preferably one that doesnt need wet or gels etc.. Any thoughts out there? Thanks saw one at Nashbar more than a year ago. |
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Heart rate monitor with avg HR, max, min, time, stop watch forunder $40?
On Feb 27, 8:13*pm, Coal Porter wrote:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:08:11 -0800 wrote: Can anyone recommend a HR monitor (wris****ch and strap) for under $40 that does all this and gets good, consistent readings.. Preferably one that doesnt need wet or gels etc.. Any thoughts out there? I just got a Sigma Designs Coach from nashbar for 20. It comes with a replacement battery, evidently the lot has been gathering dust for awile, hence the bargain price. Seems to work fine, the 6 or 7 readings I've gotten so far, running and cycling, give with my research. You didn't mention zones, this one has three. No problem for cycling, all three zones get used but when I run 90% of my time is in one zone and so if I had to do it again, I might like the full 5 zones that I've read about hehttp://www.sarkproducts.com/sally1.htm but I ain't complaining. Good luck with it! Thanks- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Anyone tried the sigma pc 15.. it can be had, as ive found out.. for about $51 shipped..? |
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