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Hi all,
does anyone know if there are any snowboard speedometers? Greeeezzz The ultimate radical snowdude |
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Peter schrieb:
Hi all, does anyone know if there are any snowboard speedometers? Greeeezzz The ultimate radical snowdude Hi, check out the Suunto S6. Jörg |
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Since the snowboard doesn't have any wheels, I don't think there is
one like they have in bikes and cars. You would have to use some type of radio transmitter to figure out your speed compared to a stationary object. I have heard of lots of people using their GPS units to figure their speed after the fact. The mark the start of their run, and the end of their run and then divide the distance by the time it took. I have also seen "air time" sensors that calculate how long you were in the air for. It tracks the time in milliseconds because you are usually in the air for a few fractions of a second and it's depressing to see like a ".1s" hang time. --Arvin "Peter" wrote in message . nl... Hi all, does anyone know if there are any snowboard speedometers? Greeeezzz The ultimate radical snowdude |
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Thanks,
looks very nice but also very expensive. Peter "Jörg Fischer" wrote in message ... Peter schrieb: Hi all, does anyone know if there are any snowboard speedometers? Greeeezzz The ultimate radical snowdude Hi, check out the Suunto S6. Jörg |
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object. I have heard of lots of people using their GPS units to figure
their speed after the fact. The mark the start of their run, and the end of their run and then divide the distance by the time it took. Was looking at GPS units a while back. Many of them now track velocity, and have a status display with peak speed and moving average. Garmin has a few selling for $150usd here, so that's 1/2 the price of the fancy watch, and the watch only handles vertical. |
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I don't think the Suunto watchs do much to really accurately measure
speed. If you investigate how they calculate it, the data used is the change in altitude, which is what the watch actually measures. If you want to know how fast your altitude changes, that is directly available and should be accurate. However, to calculate speed over the ground, which is what we'd like to know, they expect you to use a little bubble level to establish the horizontal before starting a run. Then, you site down the run and establish the angle of the run from horizontal. After entering this angle, the watch uses trig to calculate the speed from the known change in altitude. I don't think I'd want to go through this to measure speed. Even worse, it only works for a run that is uniform and that you can site down to establish the angle. Even then, it gives an average speed, not max. |
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I believe that one of the Garmin GPS units combines GPS with an
altimeter and does all the math for you. A little pricey at $US230: http://www.garmin.com/products/etrexsummit/ Neil |
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I believe that one of the Garmin GPS units combines GPS with an
altimeter and does all the math for you. A little pricey at $US230: http://www.garmin.com/products/etrexsummit/ Neil If you live in north america, you may want to avoid this unit. It doesn't support WAAS. The FAA operates a GPS correction system called WAAS. It was put up to help fill in the puzzle pieces needed to automate plane landing. If you are within range of the WAAS singals, your gps will be extremely accurrate. Officially it's spec'd to within 3 meters, but real world testing shows it's often even better than that. The gotcha is, you don't always have good line of site to the WAAS birds. AIRC, there's two: one atlantic, one pacific, both in geosync orbit at the equator... so if you're on the north face of some peak, you might not have line of site.. You gotta wonder why garmin doesn't make one with an altimeter _and_ WAAS just to cover the bases. |
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"Jason Watkins" wrote in message om... I believe that one of the Garmin GPS units combines GPS with an altimeter and does all the math for you. A little pricey at $US230: http://www.garmin.com/products/etrexsummit/ Neil If you live in north america, you may want to avoid this unit. It doesn't support WAAS. The FAA operates a GPS correction system called WAAS. It was put up to help fill in the puzzle pieces needed to automate plane landing. If you are within range of the WAAS singals, your gps will be extremely accurrate. Officially it's spec'd to within 3 meters, but real world testing shows it's often even better than that. The gotcha is, you don't always have good line of site to the WAAS birds. AIRC, there's two: one atlantic, one pacific, both in geosync orbit at the equator... so if you're on the north face of some peak, you might not have line of site.. You gotta wonder why garmin doesn't make one with an altimeter _and_ WAAS just to cover the bases. I'm not sure if waas makes a lot of difference if you are just after the speed - it's calculated separately using doppler. I've used an etrex and it seems to give reliable (i.e. repeatable) results. Main problem is the batteries pack up in the cold. Rob. |
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