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Has yours come yet?
RC - which shipping did you use? The standard one or a different one?
No sign of mine yet either. I was in such a hurry to buy it that I forgot to go for the priority postage with insurance... doh! Just getting a bit anxious now. Hopefully it'll be here on Monday, and yours too. Lemme know.
Not quite the three days delivery, but not worried, just so happy now. Good luck with yours arriving.
I wouldn't panic if I were you. I think these people are pretty good. Just send them a mail and ask if the watch has been despatched.
Andy
Muzzer - I'm glad to hear that yours arrived safely on Saturday :-)
I've put rechargable batteries in now - I think they're a wise investment.
I did try rechargeable batteries but they only seemed to last a couple of hours before they needed to be recharged...
the batteries being discussed are those on the gps unit which you only use when you're actually running, so you'd want to be doing some serious mileage to go through 2-3 packs a week. 12 hours running at 8 minute miles? 90 miles, about two and a half weeks for me. cheaper than smoking. (that's my standard response to any expense questions from my missus.)
that's not so bad, but it's still a little extravagent...getting the batteries every week with your weekly shop... but I still like the idea of rechargables... Alan mentioned that they only last a couple of hours (which should be fine for most runs)... so was think of investing in rechargables and reverting to normal ones should I ever go on a run that's longer than 2 hours... does this sound applicable??
I'll keep you posted on a regular basis.
but how frustrating can you get???? Just been out for a quick run... arrived home and within 5 mins the doorbell was ringing with the postman delivering my Timex SDM!!!!! I'll just have to try it out another day....
How do you check the battery level. This only seems to work when the unit is 'on' outside and is picking up its GPS signals? I can't get the battery indicator to work when I am indoors, but again with the unit 'on'.
I just usually check mine at the end of evry run, when I've stopped the watch but haven't yet turned the unit off.
That is what I do. However was curious about the possibility of finding out the battery level before stepping outdoors.
Haven't got to use it yet as when I tried to get the satelite link if would only search...will go try standing in a big field tomorrow!
this is my first message on this site, but i just wanted to thank all for the useful info on SDM's. I have ordered mine from Joetimex, and i can wait to test mine out when it arrives.
Good luck all!!
I got mine from watchmerun.com it worked out at about £120 and was here in a few days.
If you look back on this thread, you'll see I promised to keep you all updated on the life of my rechargeable batteries in my timex SDM.
Well, I hadn't thought much more about this until this morning, out running, when I remembered and thought that I must post an update. At that very moment my watch beeped. Strange, I thought, too early for the 3 mile mark surely. I looked down at the watch and saw it had the 'waves' in the top left that show the watch isn't getting the signal from the SDM unit. I looked at the SDM unit and saw that the green light was flashing very faintly.
So I guess the batteries went very suddenly. At the end of the run before, the monitor had showed them at 100%. Bizarre how it happened just as I was thinking about them. Perhaps I should try using this reverse psychology on the unit to see if it can make naked supermodels appear in my bed when I get home...
When I get back home I'll go through my training log and let you know how long the batteries lasted. I'd imagine about 4 hours. Someone else posted here about how their rechargables suddnely died after about the same time.
Interestingly (well, not *that* interestingly, I suppose!), I found that my Garmin walking GPS just whizzed through batteries at a truly alarming rate. In fact, I took to turning it off when I wasn't actively looking at it, as otherwise a set of fresh Duracell (triple whammy strength) wouldn't necessarily last me even a day's walking. Hope it's not going to be a similar story with the SDM.
(Naked supermodels?? Make that scrummy food waiting for me on my return from my long run, and I'll buy another SDM to do the washing up! :-)
It may be to do with my battery charging unit. The batteries give details of 'Fast', 'Quick' and 'Standard' Charges, but my charger only has one setting. Reading the ampage details on it, it seems to be doing a 'Quick' charge. Maybe a 'Standard' charge would last longer.
In any case, I'll just have to get into a routine of regularly charging my batteries on a Sunday. Still think they're better than keep buying new ones.
Alan