Oregon Scientific SE833 Heart Rate Monitor with PC Download Review

Others/Miscelleneous by stefan @ 2013-06-26

The Oregon Scientific SE833 Heart Rate Monitor Watch is a very useful gadget for people which are constantly working out and it also comes with PC Sync capabilities via the included USB dongle.

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A Closer Look Part II

The lateral sides of the chest belt feature some conductive pads which must get in contact with some drops of water or conductive gel before wearing it:

 

 

 

In order to mount it we will have to use the extension:

 

 

 

 

 

In order to install the bike mount, we will have to secure it with the two included nylon cords:

 

 

 

The USB dongle has the shape of a Flash Drive and right after we connect it, Windows 8 will start installing some generic drivers; however, with these drivers installed, the included sync application did not work. When we have tried to connect the USB dongle on a Windows 7 machine, default drivers were not installed, but we were prompted to install some unsigned ones after the sync app was fully installed. With these installed, the application worked flawlessly:

 

 

 

 

The watch comes with a circular LCD display and the Oregon Scientific logo on top:

 

 

 

On the left side we have two buttons, one for toggling options, decreasing the values or pause/stop during exercises. The other one is used for toggling between modes and for returning to a previous menu:

 

 

 

On the right side, we have three buttons, one for toggling options, increasing the current value or mute/unmute in Time mode; the second (central) one is for activating the backlight, or locking/unlocking the keypag; the last one is for confirming settings or setting alarm on/off in Time mode:

 

 

 

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