Sportline Walking Advantage 228 Giant Stopwatch
Friday, December 11th, 2009 at
8:43 am
- stopwatch, warranty card, instruction sheet, walking book
- extra large, extremely easy to read display
- Times cumulative splits
- captures 1-2 fast finishes
- time of day, date and alarms
Product Description
228 GIANT STOPWATCH
Sportline Walking Advantage 228 Giant Stopwatch
Tagged with: Advantage • Giant • Sportline • Stopwatch • Walking
Filed under: Stopwatches
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I bought two of these in an emergency to time radio controlled glider flights for high-end competition. This is the worst stopwatch I have ever used. I had to abandon them and borrow watches from other teams. The buttons occasionally double click on their own and sometimes don’t make contact to start the timer. When timekeeping is critical, this is NOT the stopwatch to use. It would be fine for keeping track of your workout time or for using as a timer to water your lawn – something that doesn’t matter if you are off by several seconds. A quality, competition level stopwatch it is NOT. Unfortunate because it costs as much as some other better timekeeping devices.
Rating: 1 / 6
I just brought this watch and it worked for 2 days. Now The start/stop button doesnt seem to work.
Rating: 1 / 6
Works as advertised, except for the whistle. I did not buy it for the whistle anyway, but had to blow it since it was there. The whistle doesn’t work right. Like a very very cheap kids whistle. The oversize display is nice and all the watch, functions work as they should. Another small gripe is that while you will be able to figure out how to do the stopwatch without the manual, you really need the manual to figure out how to set the time or alarm. This can be a minor pain if you don’t have the little instruction thing with you and decide you want to set the alarm or something. I think it would have been very easy for them to print the instructions on the back of the stopwatch. It is what it is, an inexpensive stopwatch with an oversize display. I wouldn’t call the display “Giant” either. I am happy with my purchase which was between this and the 4 or so other normal display stopwatches which where at the big local sports store at the time.
Rating: 4 / 6
The numbers are large enough to see without my glasses and the buttons are identifiable enough even when I’m in the middle of an exercise. The reset button is amazing for rest-pause exercise sets because of how easily it is reached.
Rating: 5 / 6