Wal*Mart´s model is 120 dollars and looks great too, does anyone knows about ?
The WalMart model appears to be a GPS receiver, as such I don’t think it will be useful for short distance sprints.
Tks for the help xlr8,
cuz here, thousands & thousands of miles away
it´s not so easy to understand all those bshit…they talk in english.
So, the better investiment talking about short distance time measurements still being the Gillette model ?
Thanks for your review of the product.
Do you still have problems getting the timer to stop when you cross the line?
No prob. As far as the ‘better investment’, I’m not sure. Like I said, I have not used the Gillette model. However I don’t think a GPS-based system will be able to do much under 10m resolution, so the Gillette should be significantly better than that. I personally own a very expensive automatic timer based on a photo-diode that is highly accurate. I can’t run sprints without it! I feel like it would be like trying to lift while guessing how much weight was on the bar.
So, I think having some sort of automatic timer is absoultely essential, especially if you don’t have a coach to give you consistent times. For <$200 and given the basically positive reviews here, it seems worth the risk.
:mad: You can’t order the Gillette sports timer anymore bc they are refining the product which means it will probably be more expensive!
I am seriously considering building automatic timing devices to sell commercially.
What I want to know is how much are people willing to pay?
How much would you pay for a kit that you put together yourself?
What features would you want?
How much are you willing to pay for a wired device?
How much are you willing to pay for a wireless device?
Those who are practically minded; would you buy a book/manual explaining in step-by-step how to make an automatic timer?
I think a do it yourself kit and/or a how to book would sell very well.
I would pay up to $75 but the features I want would have to be the same as the Gilette model.
I asked Gillette team what should i do to get a Sprintstar from Brazil and they don´t answered yet, i guess they can´t sell this to other countries.
Why? Its not like its some Eastern Bloc top secret where if you get one you will destroy your competition! :rolleyes: LOL
So whatever happend with this? Are they selling agian, did anyone find anything else, is anyone going to make homemade ones?
Their site still On
http://www.gillettesports.com/
but i already sent 3 e-mails asking about international shoppings and the moth.fuc…don´t answered nothing yet :mad:
Sorry, i´m not this kind of trash mouth but these guys are driving me crazy !!! :eek:
I had promised many that I would give info on how to build an electronic stopwatch system. Unfortunately, due to work commitments I can’t deliver. So I have decided to post a site that sells them at a very competitive price!!!
I will provide another article for those who want to build their own sometime in the future… once I am not a slave to my work…
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Good price. However, few concerns. Maybe you can answer these if you have experience with this system. I am comparing it to the Brower system.
1-What is the range?
2-Looks like there is no touch pad?
3-Can it be set up to a gun or beep?
4-The watch only recalls the last 5 runs. With the Brower you can save hundreds I beleive as long as the atheltes remember there numbers.
Seems like this system would only be good for flying sprints.
No its good for everything, not just flying starts, I have checked it out. You can set it up with a gun or a bleeper. A start gun has a switch attached to it thats all a touchpad is a glorified contact switch you can cook one up or buy a ready made one from an electronic store and hook it up to the system. You can solve the start gun problem by hinging together two large bits of varnished wood with a contact switch near the end.
The range from is up 500m which is more than enough since the longer the distance run on a circuit the close the start stop modules are to each other.
Using a pen and paper to record the times can overcome that limitation… thats what I do with my home built system.
When compared to the browerman its very good value since what you seem to be paying for with the browerman is an extra microchip pic with memory which adds on hundreds of dollars more…
some folks have said about using a camcorder for their timing.
i used to use this for my timing too. untill i realised that there are only 25frames per second and 100 units of time in a second. ie, if the camcorder says a 10m effort was done in 1.02 sec. it is more like 1.08sec in reality.
25frames into 100 is 4.
You might as well be hand timing. even if you convert your times, you have to improve a lot before your new time is able to be recorded on film.
Actually camcorders almost all run at 24 frames per second, not quite FAT but one frame per .0416 seconds is an advancement from hand-timing
Yes, but somewhere there are special camera that can record using more than 25fps.
About the chrono.Me and a friend of mine ar trying to build our own.Is not impossible(the principle is quite easy).First you have to accept an error (arm/body position) wich is not reltaed with the chrono. Second point are the wireless connection ( cable are not so comfortable) enough fast ?(off course depend from how much $ is reasonable to spend).
The propagation of the radio frequency through the air is in milliseconds…so yes its fast enough. I really want to help out by posting pics and providing a step-by-step of what would be needed to build a wireless system but I got to alot of work on for the next 6 wks atleast… I will endeavour to search my storage hard disk for some useful info to post here soon.