Miser said..Kamikuza said..
There's a thread or two at kite forum.com
why do you keep directing everyone to that pirouette **** show seabreeze is miles better
puetz the barometers are actually sensitive to light of all things so im sure our watch is fully enclosed. and even water proof. this then would mean the barometric pressure inside the watch should pretty much stay the same.
i am sure it would be useful perhaps riding a bike up a mountain ridge line etc given large amounts of time to adjust, think of the pressure change in a water bottle as you climb to cruising altitude in a plane.
this is one of the issues with using a barometer for measuring kite jumps but all that would be required is a permeable membrane that would nearly stop all water (wetsuits anyone?) but still allow for the atmospheric pressure. if you fold a bag several times air can still get thru all the loose folds but water will not. not exactly rocket science. all they had to do was ask a smoker how he gets his ciggy fix out on the water and they would have been able to show a plethora of home job waterproofing methods.
but were not interested in function we are only interested in sleek sell-able designs
... hmmmm, barometers sensitive to light,,,, that's a new one for me,,, are you sure about that??
I kind of get what your trying to say but I kind of think your wrong. The barometer in my little watch works pretty well, just that it doesn't like fast rate change so hence why it doesn't keep up with say kiteboarding jumps. I sometimes fly in pressurised and none pressurised aircraft's to keep myself entertained as I track the flight and when I get a chance, in the small planes of course, I watch the aircraft's gauges to see how accurate my little watch is,,,, and it does a stella job, usually spot on too.
The Garmin GPS watch, as I understand, uses the barometer in conjunction with the GPS to get its height data and from roughly 350 or so sessions I've recorded in the last couple years I've found its the rate of change that stuffs 'em up for accuracy ie how quickly you go up/down. The little sensor can't keep up! It can when its a slow enough rate of change. The barometer being used as a barometer say for weather changes, is accurate I've found. I always wondered how my little watch stacks up so I did a kind of calibration experiment ('cause some times nerds need to do these things) with a proper ships barometer and the little watch was accurate,,,, followed each pressure change nicely,,, good enough for me.
Anyway, you've probably stopped reading when I said I think your wrong so I'll shut up now.
Robbie
