| | |  | Fashion Watches | Home » » Polar Cycling Computer Heart Rate Monitor Grey/Black Watch CS300 | | | | | | | Description: | | The CS300 gives users valuable feedback about their bodyâ?TMs performance with cycling-specific data as well as cardio-focused information. This powerful combination of easy-to-use fitness tools makes the CS300 ideal for cross-trainers, beginner tri-athletes, and fitness cyclists looking to stay in shape. OwnZone ensures that you exercise within safe limits, making exercising easier and more enjoyable. Target Heart Rate Limits can be set automatically or manually. User definable upper and lower cadence limits(when using optional cadence sensor). Displays Heart Rate as beats-per-minute , or as a percentage of maximum heart rate. Two programmable interval timers. Night Mode momentarily lights the display with every button press. Heart Touch feature allows for hands free start/stop when the watch is worn on your wrist. Cycling Functions: Trip Distance; Odometer (1/2 and total); Speed (current, average and max); Wheel size settings for two bicycles; Bike mount; Wireless Speed sensor; Opt. Wireless Cadence sensor; Estimated Time of Arrival; Graphical comparison of two values; Calorie consumption rate/hour; Calorie consumption rate/km; Autostart/Stop; SpeedPointer; Automatic display scroll; Speed sensor installation for different fork shapes. Polar Cycling Computer Heart Rate Monitor Grey/Black Watch CS300 | | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 6.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 6.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 6.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 6.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 16 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Not worth the money. Not even close!Feb 10, 2010
I bought this unit about a year ago and have never been able to get any of the functions to read correctly. The cadence will register for a while but the heart reat will not. The speed will work for a while but the cadence won't. It just stops and starts randomly and Never measures all three correctly at the same time. I thought at first it was power lines creating interference, but the speed doesn't register correctly while I'm on trails in the mountains either. Don't waste your money!
 Never got it, had to purchase it from somewhere elseJan 21, 2010
I never got this item from Amazon. I ordered it but it never came. Maybe it was because I live in Canada but it got sent back to the 3rd pary vendor. I had to cancel the order and purchase it from a local shop. As for the item, its great but the instruction from Polar aren't always very clear. Also, the watch does not look very attractive on my road bike. Its ugly and ungainly looking on the bike. I wish Polar would redesign the bike mount.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Great - with some caveatsNov 08, 2009
I bought this used for about 1/4 of list price. The reviews weren't that great but given the price it was worth a gamble.
The good:
- easy to set up
- nice array of features
- has worked great so far aside from the alarms and sonicLink (now fixed)
The bad:
- alarms were inaudible when I first got it
- sonicLink (due to low volume) wouldn't initially work
- not Mac compatible
- speed sensor has to be placed high on fork to minimize interference
- instructions had wrong setting listed for my tire size
- batteries in watch and speed sensor aren't user replaceable*
- you can upload data form the CS300 to the polar website but you can't
easily move it anyplace else.
Given the longer list of "bad" things you might be surprised that I rated it as high as I did. It turns out that all the important items in the "bad" list I was eventually able to address or work around. For example, like me, another reviewer complained about the sounds from the watch being inaudible and he had that problem with 3 separate CS300s that Polar sent him. This is a big deal because the CS300 uses sounds (like a modem) to transmit saved information about your exercise sessions to the polar personal trainer website. There's no other way to get the data off the watch.
In my case the CS300 was a couple years old when I got it and since I'm not the original owner, -no warranty. I replaced the battery on my own hoping that would fix the sound problem. Now, you're supposed to send it to an approved Polar Service Center to change the battery to ensure that the unit retains its water resistance. I may eventually have it pressure tested by a local watch repair shop but I wasn't inclined to spend the money sending it to Michigan just to see if changing the battery fixed the problem. Anyway, the first battery change didn't do squat. The only reason I thought it still might be the battery is because the backlight was a little on the dim side as well. Going for broke, I tried a different battery, and ...SUCCESS
One of the big reasons I wanted to do this review is that given some of the other reviews, I was surprised at how well the CS300 worked. I use my bike to get to my job and a part of my ride is next to a Light Rail line. It uses overhead lines to supply its power and this is one of the things that can cause interference issues between the speed sensor and the CS300. I've had no trouble whatsoever. That may be because I mounted the speed sensor as close to the CS300 as I could. Other people have complained about the speed and distance not being accurately recorded but this may because of the improper numbers listed for at least some tires sizes in the manual. Once I had that set properly, the reported distance and speeds matched my wired computer.
I have to say that even though I did get the sonicLink data transfer to work, it took some trial and error. It's the type of thing that may work great on some people's computers and not at all on others. My recommendation is that if uploading the data to the Polar website is an important feature to you, get the CS300 from somewhere that has an easy return policy.
For me to give this thing 5 stars it would have to have true Mac compatibility, a better method of transferring data than SonicLink, user replaceable batteries in all components, and more resistance to interference giving you greater flexibility in sensor mounting.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Great ValueOct 01, 2009
Excellent Watch, everithing you may need for a enthusiastic ride!! Accurate and easy to use.
Fully recomended.
2 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Do not buy this productAug 29, 2009
I've had this unit for a couple of years, and haven been really disappointed with it. The heart rate monitor is really erratic. Even though I live in a rural area (Santa Fe, NM), stray signals (from who knows what in this sparcely populated area)through the heart rate monitor off. The batteries in the cadence sensor and the heart rate sensor have to be replaced about once a year. Even worse, when the battery in the speed sensor is drained, you have to buy a whole new sensor. My speed sensor battery died in about two years. The cheapest price I've found for a new speed sensor is about $35.00, before shipping. I've decided to spend that $35.00 on another heart rate monitor. It will not be a Polar.
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