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BAROMETER
What is the little box on the top left of the display?
It is the barometric trend indicator that shows the general direction of weather changes. The display is
based on barometer measurements for the last 6 hours.
Does the Wristop Computer show future trends in weather conditions?
No, the Wristop Computer continually accumulates data on barometric pressure existent within a 3 to 6
hour window and displays general barometric trends in weather based on the accumulated data.
What does absolute pressure and relative pressure mean?
Absolute pressure is the actual pressure in any location at any given time. Relative pressure on the other
hand equals the corresponding pressure at sea level for a certain altitude that you are at. For example,
if you are at an altitude of 1,000 m/3,300 ft the absolute pressure normally is around 900 mbar/26.60
inHg. The relative pressure at sea level would then be around 1,013 mbar/29.90 inHg.
What is temperature compensation?
When the unit is temperature compensated, the altitude measurement of the unit is not affected by
the temperature of the unit itself. The unit can be worn on your wrist or placed on a table it will in
either case give you the proper altitude reading providing the weather conditions have not changed.
All Suunto Wristop Computers are temperature compensated within the range 5 to 140 ° F / - 20 to
+60 ° C.
COMPASS
What is the purpose of the rotating outer bezel?
The purpose of the rotating bezel is that people can use the instrument as a regular base plate compass
if they want to, and use the bezel to e.g. indicate North when in the bearing tracking mode or leaving
the compass display for another mode.
Also, it can be used to manually follow your vertical progress by using the North indicator on the bezel
to mark the altitude from where you want to follow your progress (i.e. a zero point). You could also
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