Tag: barometer
Suunto Watch – Vector Black
by Lianeh on Nov.06, 2009, under Patrol Store
The Suunto Vector is a great watch. Don’t be put off by the bulkiness of the face though as it incorporates a lot of features through a digital display and with the Suunto name comes reliability. Suunto are well known for Replacing Your Luck when it comes to watches and the Vector certainly lives up to its brand motto.
Featuring an altimeter which can be easily accessed by pressing the mode button once, the Suunto Vector gives you readings up to 9000m or 29500ft – meaning you can make it to the top of Everest without the altimeter on your watch giving up on you. Whether you can do the same is up to you. As well giving you a high altitude range it also indicates your vertical speed and a total ascent/descent whilst storing it in a handy logbook so you can keep track of your achievements. The altitude alarm goes off if you have programmed in a certain altitude that you would like to reach, letting you know that you have made it to that point.
The Suunto Vector is not just a watch; it is an instrument for outdoor sports persons or adventurers. That doesn’t mean you can play music on it though, but with what it has to offer you in features you will sing its praises.
The helpful and easy to use barometer on the Suunto Vector has a four-day weather memory telling you the atmospheric pressure for the last six hours in one-hour intervals, and six-hour intervals thereafter. Very handy if you need to follow changes in pressure and for helping to forecast changes in weather conditions, i.e. storms. It also has a barometric trend indicator, estimating the measurement at one-hour intervals. The sea-level pressure is easily set and information can be obtained through newspapers, local news and radio weather reports, local airports or through the Internet under local weather. With a temperature gauge range of –20 degrees to 60 degrees Celsius (-5 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit) it is best read off the wrist as body heat affects an accurate reading.
As with most compasses on watches, the one built into the Suunto Vector will need to be calibrated before use, especially when in extreme cold weather and every time the battery is replaced. The compass is easy to read and features a North indicator, bearing to a 1 degree resolution and bearing tracking
Also, as you’d expect with any watch, it tells the time. As well as that basic, important function the Suunto Vector can be set in 12hr or 24hr mode, has a stopwatch and countdown timer.
The instruction book that comes with the Suunto Vector is scary at first glance but out of vast amounts of pages, depending on your language of choice, the instructions average at 46 pages.
