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- From: trent@mpr.ca (Robert Trent)
- Subject: Re: Computer Advice Needed
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.015617.5565@mprgate.mpr.ca>
- Sender: news@mprgate.mpr.ca
- Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd., Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Dec22.115859.12949@waikato.ac.nz> <1992Dec22.233241.6607@scott.skidmore.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 01:56:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.233241.6607@scott.skidmore.edu> mcobb@scott.skidmore.edu (mary cobb) writes:
- >I have the cateye model you are referring to. It's nice, except that the
- >LCD display is painfully slow in winter riding (but it's LCD, what can you
- >expect). An annoying quirk it has is displaying random speeds on the screen
- >when I'm riding at a constant speed (53, 103, 20 mph, etc. One after the
- >other.) Then I ride over a series of bumps or something to jolt it and it's
- >fine. I hope that is because of low battery power. Otherise, it's been fun
- >to have. IT does NOT auto stop and start, to my dismay (paper route timing
- >is REALLY hard to get an avg. speed with start and sotp all the time.) But
- >altogether it's alright.
- >
- >Eric
-
- My cateye displayed the same problem. It turned out that the sensor on
- the front fork was too far (by a fraction of an inch) from the magnet attached
- to the spokes. I moved the sensor closer and experienced no more
- 180 mph readings!
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- I have a question... Is anyone out there familiar with the Avocet 50
- Altimeter computer? Does it provide km, km/h, and meter (for evelation)
- measurements? Is its altimeter accurate - even when used in the rain/snow?
- I'm worried that my riding would abuse an air-pressure sensor to death.
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