Customer Reviews

Oregon Scientific SE102 LS Heart Rate Monitor

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I think that this is a great heart rate monitor. I like that it beeps and vibrates. I do most of my workouts in the gym. I also usually have headphones on, so a beeping heart monitor isn't too useful while I'm doing cardio, but the vibration option still allows the monitor to notify me when I'm above or below my target heart rate.

The strap is comfortable. It goes right under my sports bra which is a plus. I also like that it counts my calories burned.

Even with gel, I have lots of trouble getting the sensor to pick up my heart rate until it reaches 120bpm. Once it starts working though it has never lost during an workout.

I haven't used any of the other features of the watch, I just use it to display my heart rate.

After 2 bike rides, this unit performs as advertised. Pretty easy to set up, chest strap is comfortable (you know it's there, but it not a bother). Watch strap is long enough to fit over heavy jersey, dial is very readable.
It provides only basic info - but hey, look at the price.
Can't comment on durability - too early to tell.

At first it looked great, everything seemed ok. But then I began to get readings higher than normal. And yesterday (may 11), just 34 days after I bought it, while I was in a long run it went crazy, everything turn on in the display.
Now I'm trying to make my guarantee work.

This product is a really good deal. I paid $30.00 for it and it does more than most $100.00 HRM's. There are a couple of things that the manual doesn't tell you about that other people have complained about. Let me start with the HR alerts they will not alert you until you have started the stop watch part. Once you have done this it works great. Next the year and height part. This is set in a loop it will start at 1983 and 5 feet 7 inches. Keep hitting the plus button if you need a year or height below the starting number it will loop around so you can get to the one you want. The only thing I wish it did was saved you max HR for that workout. It will give you %, avg, and current. This is more than enough for $30.00. Also the vibration alert is the best thing ever you can feel it when running, road biking, and even mountain biking. So far I am happy with this and it should sever me well until I can get a Garmin Forerunner 405.

I actually bought two of these, one for me and one for my husband. His seems to work perfectly. I had to send mine back as there was something wrong with the receiver. So, we are satisfied with one, and will probably be satisfied with the new one I expect to receive.

Overall I'm very happy with the product. The HRM does a good job and is easy to use. The watch is lacking a 'seconds' field, which I like to use for manually checking my resting heart rate when I wake in the morning. It's a bit annoying to have to switch modes and start the chrono for this. The Tap On Lense feature is neat, but more of a novelty. I disabled it.

Bottom line - it does everything it claims to quite well. And for a little more than the price of a Timex Iron Man, you get the HRM built-in. Great deal.

I would strongly recommend against buying any Oregon Scientific product if you think there is the smallest chance that you might need cusomter support. I've been waiting more than two months for part of an item I bought. After five e-mails and a phone call to customer support, I still don't have the item, and without it, I can't use my heart monitor. I would never buy an Oregon Scientific product again.

I received my heart rate monitor and it was horrible. I found it very difficult to set up and
I still can't reset the stop watch. If I hadn't already thrown the package away (my bad) I would have returned it.

I have owned several heart rate monitors and this is a piece of junk (being polite)!!!!!!!!!!

Where to begin? Setup is long and complicated and irrelevant. Heart rate readings go all over the map and are different from what you get when you check your pulse manually. The calories-burned number is based on heart rate and elapsed time, and is the same for a 100-lb woman and a 200-lb man. The unit is unreliable. Half of he functions in mine stopped working in the first month. Later when I changed batteries, I could no longer enter any data: not time of day, nor fitness level - zip. A call to the Oregon Scientific customer service line was a waste of time. Their response: "Prove you had it for less than a year, and we'll exchange it (you pay shipping both ways), otherwise, go pound sand." Bottom line: this is junk, and Oregon Scientific won't stand behind it.