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- From: sshostek@sshostek.mentorg.com (Steve Shostek)
- Subject: Re: Alimeter Watches (Update)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.005749.22005@news.mentorg.com>
- Sender: sshostek@sshostek (Steve Shostek)
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:57:49 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov17.072826.7904@sol.UVic.CA> <10769@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> <7652@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> <10796@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
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- In article <10796@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>, hall@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Hal F Lillywhite) writes:
- |> >>it measures temperature...
- |>
- |> >Seems the temperature would always read 98.6...
- |>
- |> Nope. That is the problem, in spite of being attached to your wrist
- |> it does track the air temperature reasonably well. This means the
- |> perssure cell of the altimeter also tracks the air temperature,
- |> resulting in inaccurate altitude readings.
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- Its actually worse than that. In direct sun on a cool day the temperature
- swings between shade and sun can be severe enough to cause discrepancies of
- nearly a thousand feet.
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- I take pains to keep my Casio at a fairly constant temp if I want to
- rely on its accuracy.
-
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