I’ve prepared this review for the Dealextreme Product Review Program, about this great gadget I took months ago, so lets go:
1.Package:
The package is not small enough to fit in anyone’s mailbox and this is a problem because the postman does as possible to fix it in the mailbox as he can, because of this the package can be damaged but the content is the important thing and it is not careless, so it won’t suffer.
Inside there is a medium box which contains the watch, a chest belt and a instruction manual in English.
I would like offer a packeage pic but I can’t because I dropped it.
2. Features:
Heart rate monitor with cordless trasmission between watch and chest belt
Time functions: Hour, Minute and Second.
Selectable 12/24 hour format.
Light
Stopwatch function.
Delay alarm when heart rate go beyond the user preset upper heart rate limit (Default 160 bpm and max. 210 bpm).
Power saving mode.
Watch up to 30 meters water resistant.
Chest belt splash-proof.
Both watch & chest belt are powered by 1*CR2032 battery (included)
3. The watch has a LCD screen which is controled by four bottons:
a) Light.
b) Mode: changes the operation mode.
c) Stopwatch or changes a value in setting mode.
d) Menu: Hold to enter the setting mode or go to the next setting item.
4. Chess Belt:
You have to fit it be-low your pectoral muscules, and you can adjust the wide to a pertect and comftable fit.
There are two conductive straps which being a bit wet permit the conductivity from the chess belt to the watch.
It works better in hot conditions than in cold ones, needing more time to fuction steadily.
5. Transmission:
The heart rate chest belt and the watch have a maximum transmission range of about 100 centimeters. When working there are a “heart-flashes” in the watch which means it is reciving a signal from the chest belt.
6. Interferences:
but more important are the interferences produced by being practising sport with other people using HRM. This means that sometimes they don’t work well, showing confusable values produced by capturing the others HRM signal.
Interferences are possible using two HRM like this one very near, but this is not cathegoric. In my experience, I have practised spinning with it in a room crowded of people and I never had any intererence problems.
7. Otherwise:
You can’t memorize the highest heart rate you have had in a session.
There is no system which indicates the percentage of effort you are doing.
Is not really easy to understand how to use the wireless watch rate monitor with the instructions given in their user manual and language is English only.
8. Conclussion:
The price in genneral is an esential factor which indicate the quality of the HRM and its options but this gadget works very well in spite of having a reduced price, also has a great performance, and the shipments are free.
This exceptional gadget offers many services, is cheap, without interferences, water resistent, strenght... and very usefull.
I do recommend it!
Finally, this is the link to get it:
Wireless Heart Rate Monitor Sport Watch (HRM)
