Sports Equipment Stores: FINIS Lap Track Review

Where to start with this almost useless product.

Let's start with the programming:

- Metric support is in meters. Fine if you have a metric pool. But your choice for English system is MILES. Miles, really? Gee, my pool is 25 YARDS long. So I am forced to use meters for really no apparent reason. And the difference matters on long swims.

- Getting the timer into a mode to count laps and time (why I bought it) is quite confusing and non-intuitive, and I am an engineer. The unit has a lot of features but all I really need are:
* Count laps and split times (maybe count down laps when I am doing a specific distance.)
* Let me setup workouts with rest periods.

Now I can do the first 2 with this timer, but doing it is difficult, especially once the unit is submerged (using it is worse). I can't do the 3rd (sets with rest periods). It's a hell of a lot easier with my cheap Timex watch.

Now for the mechanicals, which is MUCH worse:

- The unit won't stick to the wall of any pool I swim in (3 different ones tried). I've tried all the attachments including the bracket. With the bracket it floats up even with a significant weight on it. Useless. During every swim I have found the unit off the wall.
I took to putting it on deck and using open turns and tapping it. That *might* be ok if not for the next issue.

- The unit frequently double counts when tapped during a swim. Come on, Finis. Put a little smarts in your software. Debouncing is embedded programming 101. If a 50 meter lap takes 2-3 seconds instead of 40, chances are it is a double bounce. It's not rocket science.

I'm giving up on it and going back to a watch. I think a decent in-pool timer can be designed, but this is not it.

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Personal Underwater Lap Counter and Timer

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