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[[old] Ben Rea]

i find nothing wrong with the pm3, i think its great,

[[old] Ben Rea]

fixed

[[old] c2scott]

I'll put viewing DF on the wish list for the PM3 for discussion the next time the team meets.<br /><br />If you need some help with the PM3, I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have. Just send me an email or call anyone at Concept2 for some help.<br /><br />- Scott<br />

[[old] becz]

<!--quoteo(post=55520:date=Feb 10 2006, 06:48 PM:name=kinley)--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(kinley @ Feb 10 2006, 06:48 PM) </b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>How can one find an advantageous df if she can't see the drag and pace simultaneously, or change the setting while rowing?<br /> </td></tr></table><br />DF doesn't change with pace, so I'm not sure what you mean by "advantageous". Why not just row at various damper settings until you find something that's comfortable for you, then check the df and make a note of it?<br />

[[old] kinley]

<br />No, df doesn't change with pace, but df can affect pace. By "advantageous" I meant fast.<br /><br />Though the collective wisdom of this forum seems to run in the other direction, I lower the drag for 2ks, to facilitate getting the rate up. So, to expand on my earlier & slightly intemperate post, the situtation was thus: I had paid a day visit to a gym to which I do not belong, for the sole purpose of rowing 2000 meters on a model D prior to the Crash-Bs. The model Cs which I usually use bottom out about 91 for df. The D goes into the 80s. So the question became, if I have the opportunity to use, say, df=85 at the Bs, is this helpful, or not. And I didn't want to spend all afternoon pulling preset pieces (work intervals, in essence) trying to figure it out. I wanted to pull high 10s at various settings as I warmed up and see where the split was in relation to perceived effort. On a C one can duck forward at the catch, hit the damper and get instant feedback. With the D, you're groping around in a dark room. That was the complaint.<br /><br />As for being completely bamboozled by the PM3: I will probably stop by the C2 booth Saturday for instruction on how to set & recall splits (heads up c2scott!). Though as I have no access to a D my inquiry will be a bit academic.

[[old] c2scott]

<!--quoteo(post=56529:date=Feb 20 2006, 04:59 PM:name=kinley)--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(kinley @ Feb 20 2006, 04:59 PM) </b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>As for being completely bamboozled by the PM3: I will probably stop by the C2 booth Saturday for instruction on how to set & recall splits (heads up c2scott!). Though as I have no access to a D my inquiry will be a bit academic.<br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br /> Did you get your questions answered at our booth? <br />

[[old] kinley]

Yes. KC was very helpful. The problem was that I had selected a preset distance of 2000, then tried to move the blinking number from the "2" in "2000" to the line showing split distance by pressing the arrow key pointing to the split. I didn't understand that I had to scroll from the top line down to lower lines by using the arrow key pointing to an arrow icon on the screen. In fact, the icons had just gone entirely over my head; I kept trying to correlate the buttons with the information (numbers) on the screen. KC did say that a new PM3 manual is in the works, which was welcome news.<br /><br />I really enjoyed your display of earlier C2 models. I've been erg racing since the days of 2500m on a B, but had never sat on a model A before. I liked it!