I purchased this in August 2008 to replace my failing Polar HR monitor. I have ridden my bike nearly 1500 miles since then and this thing is so unreliable that I have gone back to my failing, now less than reliable Polar.It has always been difficult to use compared to other (Polar) monitors that I have had. The instructions are very poor and do not explain the features in much detail. It tells you how to set it up and the rest is up to you. Some features are obvious, others are not.
It does have the now standard calories burned nonsense (it is not accurate, but more a rough estimate.) It has a useless feature called a "fitness index" which, in this thing, is based on your age and the self-assessed "activity score" you enter. 2+ hours per week is high!!!!It also has a "lock" feature with which you can accidentally lock it from reading your HR. Hopefully you will have thoroughly read and memorized the manual or brought it along with you if you do so, because you won't likely be able to figure out the problem and how to solve it if you haven't.
Mine appears to be excessively sensitive to any electric interference. The maximum HR is always wrong---up to 230bpm---at times. This naturally distorts the average HR. This has happened every single ride I have been on with this thing, no matter the location; urban or rural. It does the same thing when I jog with it. The Polar models I have used show very few such false readings in the same areas.
It has began to fail completely this week--about 3 months after purchase. At items, I can no longer bring up the stopwatch feature. I will refuses to start measuring the heart rate. At other times, it cannot read any signal. Or it will read at over 220 bpm for an entire ride. A reset sometimes cures it at least temporarily, but then I have lost half of the data.
Even though Polar is nearly twice as expensive, and generally less than 100% reliable, the ones I have used surpass this by far. I will be trash-canning this one and going back to Polar. At least they last more than 3 months and I can generally trust one of them.
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Product Description:
This battery-operated wrist-mounted device is a less expensive version of Cateye's MSC-HR20 Multi-Sport Heart Rate Monitor, without MSC-HR20's signature lap feature and with only one exercise profile instead of three. This device does have 24 functions and features, however, including displaying current, average, and maximum heart rates during exercise.
Functions
Average heart rate
Maximum heart rate
Percent of maximum heart rate
1 customizable exercise profile
1 programmable heart rate zone
Time in target zone
Time above target zone
Time below target zone
Target zone limits
Icon alarm for target zone
Audio alarm for target zone
Warm-up timer
Features
Exercise data summary
Total exercise time
Total calories burned
Percent of calories burned as fat
Stopwatch
12/24-hour clock
Date and weekday
Backlight
Low-battery indicator
Key lock
Water-resistant to 30 meters
About Cateye
Founded in 1946 in Osaka, Japan, CatEye is the leading manufacturer of cycle computers, lights, and reflectors to cyclists in the world. In 1964, CatEye was the first in the industry to create a flashing lamp for bicycles, followed by their first battery headlamp in 1982, and the very first bicycle head lamp using white LEDs in 2001. The company's Opticube lens and reflectors make the brightest and most efficient LED headlights. while their LD500 remains the only rear safety light that can meet the rigorous CPSC standards for reflectivity.
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