difference in PM3 and PM4

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difference in PM3 and PM4

Post by vo2max » December 9th, 2006, 3:57 pm

I was wondering -
What advantage does the PM4 give the home user. The only real difference I saw was the upgrade potential. What kind of upgrades might we be talking about here? Is there something in the works? Otherwise the $150 could be spent on accesories (3rd party software for example). I was just wondering if anyone here was in the know.

Looking forward to getting a CII after all these years of lusting over one.


Thank you in advance,

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Post by Citroen » December 9th, 2006, 6:52 pm

For the home user the PM4 only has two advantages over PM3:

1. Rechargable battery.
2. ANT transceiver which can pair with a Suunto HR belt.

The other features

3. Ad-hoc wireless racing with up to 8 other PM4s
4. Connectors for wired venue racing

don't apply to the home user.

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Post by PaulS » December 9th, 2006, 8:53 pm

Citroen wrote:For the home user the PM4 only has two advantages over PM3:

1. Rechargable battery.
2. ANT transceiver which can pair with a Suunto HR belt.

The other features

3. Ad-hoc wireless racing with up to 8 other PM4s
4. Connectors for wired venue racing

don't apply to the home user.
"3." Applies to my home. :roll:

I don't care much for HR monitoring, but the Suunto belt supplied with the Model E is quite nice, the PM4 stores the ID on your log card so it knows who's who when a couple are in use, but using my normal pulse counting at the end of a piece gave me values close enough for my purposes, which was nice to have confirmed. That said, if I do use the belt then I don't have to bother with writing anything down as it's recorded for me. not quite sure if that's a good thing or not at this point. :wink:
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I already have a polar monitor

Post by vo2max » December 9th, 2006, 8:59 pm

The Suunto is not that important to me therefore.

With the PM3 you need to buy the additional reciever if you want HR to show on the monitor if I read things correctly though. Still, the $150 would cover that cost and one of the 3rd party software packages.

Thanks for the quick response

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