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Runtastic RUNGPS1 Operating Instructions Manual

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  • Page 1 GPS Watch with Heart Rate Measurement Operating instructions Edition 04/2012...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Application range................4 Safety and maintenance ..............5 Safety instructions ................5 Repairing ..................6 Water impermeability ..............6 Percussion and vibrations ..............7 Electromagnetic compatibility ............7 Environmental temperature ............8 Functioning of the battery ............... 8 Disposal ..................
  • Page 3 Replacement of the battery of chest strap ........52 Data download ................. 52 10.1 Download the installation files ............52 10.2 How to install runtastic Connect ............ 52 10.3 Installing drivers for the USB cable ..........53 10.4 Using runtastic Connect ..............53 Technical data...................

  • Page 4: Application Range

    The GPS-watch is not fit for an exigent use as sky diving, gliding.  The RUNGPS1 is designed for private purposes and it is not made for commercial use. The GPS-watch can also be used as an auxiliary training gadget for measuring and displaying cardiac frequency, not as a medical device.

  • Page 5: Safety And Maintenance

    Safety and maintenance Safety instructions Please read this chapter carefully and follow all the specified indications. This way you ensure the adequate functioning and a long period of operation for your GPS-watch. Keep the wrapping and operating instructions well, so that, in case of alienation, you can hand them on to the new owner.

  • Page 6: Repairing

    You can find its address on the warranty card. Water impermeability The RUNGPS1 watch is 3 bar water resistant. In the table below you will see which activities and conditions the GPS-watch is adequate. Data are based on a verification of aquatic impermeability according to DIN 8310.

  • Page 7: Percussion And Vibrations

    Be careful not to touch the buttons, when the watch is still moist. The water only can enter in the case through these buttons and this can affect the watch. Please note that salty and thermal water can lead to the corrosion of the metallic elements.

  • Page 8: Environmental Temperature

    Environmental temperature The GPS-watch can be operated durably at an environmental temperature from 0 °C up to 50 °C, and stored at an environmental temperature of -10 °C up to 60 °C. Avoid high temperatures (e.g. in stopped vehicles or under direct sun influence) and permanent environmental humidity.
  • Page 9  Charge the accumulator of the GPS watch only with a USB cable delivered together with it. If the accumulator is charged otherwise, this can lead to overheating, explosion or fire.  Do not charge the accumulator of the GPS watch near heat sources or in a car, under the powerful action of sunbeams.

  • Page 10: Disposal

    Information regarding the replacement of the battery of chest strap can also be found at point 9.2 "Replacement of the battery of chest strap ". Disposal Batteries are special waste. For the adequate disposal of the batteries, there are special containers in the shops where batteries are commercialized, as well as in the communal collection places.If you want to throw the GPS watch and its accessories away, eliminate them in conformity with current...

  • Page 11: Indications Regarding Application Instructions

    We structured the application instructions for the GPS watch so that you can choose from the contents the necessary information depending on the theme. For further questions you can resort to service@runtastic.com. Outlet volume and functional press keys Outlet volume 1 GPS watch (Art.-Nr.

  • Page 12: Functional Press Keys

    Elastic strap: 1 USB cable 1 bike support incl. 2 cable clamps and 1 installing plate Functional press keys „ST./STP.” button „LIGHT“ button „VIEW“ button „LAP/RESET“ button „MODE“-button Position of GPS antenna: For the best GPS reception, the GPS antenna will always be directed towards the sky Contact points...

  • Page 13: Start-Up

    Start-up We recommend you to read the operating instructions carefully before starting-up the GPS watch. On the screen of the GPS watch there is a protection film. Eliminate it before the first use. Caution! This protection film for the screen must be kept out of reach of babies and young children! It presents asphyxiation danger! The watch will be delivered in off-line mode.

  • Page 14: Charging The Accumulator Of The Gps Watch

    Charging the accumulator of the GPS watch The GPS watch has a lithium-polymer accumulator. Charge it for minimum 3 hours before the first use of the GPS watch. To avoid corrosion, we recommend you to dry the contact points of the GPS watch well before starting a charging process.

  • Page 15: Chest Strap

    Chest strap Battery Sensor front Contact surface for Sensor back sensor Join the elastic strap with the sensor. Put the elastic strap so that the sensor stays on the chest, under the pectoral muscles. In order to make an optimum transfer of the cardiac frequency possible, wear the belt with the battery compartment on the right side (from the wearer’s point of view).

  • Page 16: General Information Regarding The Gps Reception

    General information regarding the GPS reception In order to be able to use the function of your GPS optimally, the below mentioned instructions must certainly be followed. The GPS watch is a global positioning system (=GPS), which serves especially for measuring the distance, speed, height and navigation by means of USA satellite network.

  • Page 17: Modes Of The Gps Watch

    Modes of the GPS watch The GPS watch has the following main functioning modes, which can be changed simply by pressing the „MODE“-button, being described more exactly in the following chapters.  Time-mode  GPS-Workout-mode  GPS-Navigations-mode  Compass-mode Additionally, there is an adjustment mode, for which the following apply: Call of adjustment mode: Press the „MODE“-button and hold down Settings of adjustment mode: ...

  • Page 18: Adjustment Mode

    Adjustment mode Press and hold down the „MODE“-button in order to get to the adjustment mode. The following pages offer an image about the structure of the menu from the adjustment mode: Menu structure  Workout (Point 6.3) o Profiles ...
  • Page 19  GPS (Points 6.3 and 6.4) o On/Off Activation/deactivation of GPS reception o Timeout Setting of GPS Timeout o A-GPS A-GPS Expiry (Maturity date)  HRM (Point 6.3) o On/Off Activation of cardiac frequency measurement o Zone HR  Select Selection of training area ...

  • Page 20: User's Settings

     Weight Weight setting o System (Point 6.1.2 – excepting Compass point 6.5)  Sound  Key Tones Activation/deactivation of key tone  Chimes Activation/deactivation of fixed time alarm  Contrast LCD contrast adjustment  Units  Dst/Spd Adjustment speed and distance unit of measure ...

  • Page 21: System Settings

    Selection of gender   In the setting mode select the „Settings“ point from the menu  „User“ „Gender“.  Then select "Male" for masculine or "Female" for feminine. Date of birth adjustment   In the setting mode select „Settings“ point from the menu „User“...
  • Page 22 LCD contrast adjustment   In the setting mode select „Settings“ point from the menu „User“  „Contrast“.  Then set the desired LCD contrast from 3 (light) up to 16 (dark). Adjustment of the unit of measure for speed and distance ...

  • Page 23: Memory Status Programming

    To this effect, when transferring the data from the watch in your computer, you must activate automatic memory deletion at a data transfer from runtastic Connect, in settings/options. If the memory of the watch is full, no timing will be performed, a training timing in workout mode can not be started any more.

  • Page 24: Time-Mode

    Time-mode Press the „MODE“-button until you reach time mode. This appears by the following screen display: Day of the week Time Month Date In time mode there are the following sub-functions, with the „VIEW“-button you can choose among them:  Time and date ...
  • Page 25 Update GPS for time:   In the setting mode select „Settings” point from the menu „Time   Date“ „Home Time“ „GPS-Upd“.  Then select "ON" or "OFF". "ON" is pre-set, this means that when the satellite signal is received, time and date will be automatically set. Indication: Keep in mind that the GPS signal transmits Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), therefore, it may be necessary to set a different time zone In winter, for Austria and Switzerland GMT + 1:00 is applied.

  • Page 26: Accumulator Level Display

     Then adjust the seconds, minutes, hours, year, month and day. 6.2.2 Accumulator level display In Time-mode press the „VIEW“-button until the following display appears on the display: Remaining hours The estimation for the remaining hours for the use of GPS function will be displayed.

  • Page 27: Alarm

    Timer use:  In the display mode Timer press the „ST./STP" button to start or stop the timer.  If the timer is stopped, press the "LAP/RESET" button, to reset the timer at the time set previously.  When timing is finished, during the last 10 seconds a Beep will be given for each second.

  • Page 28: Dual Time

    Daily Daily Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Mon-Fri Monday-Friday  Then select the desired alarm format. Alarm stop: When the alarm rings, you can stop it by pressing any key. 6.2.5 Dual Time By this function you can choose a dual time. In Time-mode press the „VIEW“- button until the following display appears on the display: Dual time Current time...

  • Page 29: Gps-Workout Mode

    Within the GPS-Workout-mode the speed, distance, training time, cardiac frequency and other interesting data are indicated; these can be subsequently seen on the computer by Runtastic Connect. GPS-Workout-mode works in tight connection with GPS-Navigation-mode. The functions start and stop training and lap time taking can be achieved in both modes.
  • Page 30 automatically your maximum cardiac frequency, as well as your upper and lower limits to the 3 indicated training zones. Select the training zone depending on the purpose you follow by your training. % of the maximum cardiac frequency Above the training zone Upper limit Within the training zone Lower limit...
  • Page 31 Reset of upper and lower limits to basic setting   In the setting mode select „HRM” point from the menu „HR Zone“  „Reset“. Setting of maximum cardiac frequency  In the setting mode select „HRM” point from the menu ...

  • Page 32: Profiles And Training Data

    6.3.2 Profiles and training data The GPS watch has 5 different training profiles: Running, Cycling, Hiking, Sailing and „User“ The names of these profiles can only be modified via runtastic Connect Selection of training profile   In the setting mode select „Workout“ point from the menu ...
  • Page 33 Possible training data rows 1 and 3 Altitude Altitude Calories Calories Distance Distance Heading Heading (degree indication) HR-Avg Average cardiac frequency HR-Max Maximum cardiac frequency HR-Min Minimum cardiac frequency Current cardiac frequency HRZ-Abv Time above training area HRZ-Blw Time below training area HRZ-In Time in training area LapDist...
  • Page 34 Possible training data row 2 Distance Distance Current cardiac frequency LapDist Lap distance LatLong Longitudinal and latitude degree PaceAvg Average pace (time/ km) SpeedAvg Average speed Speed Current speed TimeOfDay Time Wkout Time Training time Training data Basic data setting ...

  • Page 35: Training

    A-GPS is a method, which fastens the search for a good GPS-reception under bad weather conditions. The A-GPS data will be saved on a server and transferred to the watch via the runtastic Connect. The validity period of this data is 7 days.
  • Page 36 Then the GPS watch does not know what satellite constellation it should wait and has to gather the data again. Then there is warm start, in the best case it takes approximately 10 seconds. A warm start can function only when the GPS watch did not go a long distance away from the last determination of the position and there was not too much time since then.
  • Page 37 When this symbol appears, enough satellites were found in order for the GPS watch to determine a 3D position (with altitude). If the satellites are lost and no position is determined, "GPS Lost" appears on the screen, until a button is pressed. GPS manual stop In order to stop the search for satellites, the following options exist: ...
  • Page 38 Recording of lap times During the training, press the "LAP/RESET” button to record the time of a lap. For each workout, the maximum number of lap times is 99. Automatic recording of lap times „Lap-By-Distance” By this function, laps can be automatically generated. Then the "LAP/RESET” button no longer needs to be pressed to record the time of a lap.

  • Page 39: After Training

     Then press "On", to activate „Lap-To-Waypoint” function.  Then select one of the paths. This path will be erased and replaced with a new reference point Setting of measurement interval The GPS watch records the path continuously. You can set manually how often the measurements are performed, from 1 second up to 10 minutes.
  • Page 40 (Part 1)  First row: Number of recording (Training) Press the „ST./STP.“- or the „LAP/RESET” buttons, to switch between recordings (trainings)  Second row: Date  Third row: Time  Fourth row: Integral number of the laps from this recording Part) ...

  • Page 41: Gps-Navigation-Mode

    GPS-Navigation-mode Note: The GPS-Navigation-mode is available on the watch but not supported by the software “runtastic Connect” yet. Therefore you can’t download routes to your watch and use GPS-navigation-mode yet. This function will be available in autumn 2012. Press the „MODE“-button multiple times until you get to the “GPS Navigation-mode”, as you can see on the display.
  • Page 42 Current Speed Distance to the Directional arrow activated checkpoint Navigation Data First choose the path, the navigation-mode and the waypoint-radius, like described as follows: Choose path  Choose “Settings”  “Navigation” “SelPath”  Now you can choose from path 1 to path 10 Delete path ...
  • Page 43 to start with. When you reach the activated waypoint, automatically the previous waypoint is displayed until you rech the first waypoint. Choose navigation-modes  Choose “Settings”  “Navigation” “NavMode”  Now choose “waypoint”, “forward” or “backward” Waypoint-radius Here you can adjust when exactly a waypoint is reached. Basic setting is 30 meters (98,43 feet).
  • Page 44 For a good GPS-reception it is important to know that the watch should lie even and shall not be moved. Indication: Before you start your workout, lay your GPS-watch in open area with view to the sky (e.g. window board, car roof) and start the search for satellites.
  • Page 45 To save the batteries, the GPS-watch will stop searching after 5 minutes and will turn off the GPS. Start/Stop Workout Press the “ST./STP.”-button when you are in the GPS-navigation mode to start or to stop the workout. Thus the search for the GPS-reception and the heart rate measurement are activated automatically (if this has not been done yet manually).

  • Page 46: Go-To-Display

    6.4.2 Go-to-display Enter the GPS-Navigation mode and press the “VIEW”-button several times, until you see the following display: Waypoint number Path name Navigation data You can choose a waypoint from the previous path by either pressing the “ST./STP.” or the “LAP/RESET”-button. Alternating following navigation data is shown in the bottom of the line: ...
  • Page 47 Direction Indication of degrees Direction Indication of degrees North 349° - 11° North-Northeast 12° - 33° Northeast 34° - 56° East-North East 57° - 78° East 79° - 101° East-South East 102° - 123° South East 124° - 146° South-South East 147°...

  • Page 48: Compass Calibration

    6.5.1 Compass calibration The compass of the GPS watch must be calibrated:  if the watch is used for the first time.  if the compass will be used in a place, which is not identical to the place in which the compass was calibrated. ...

  • Page 49: Economic Functioning

    Example 1:  Western deviation 23° and the compass shows 323° 323° - 23° = 300° Example 2:  Eastern deviation 22° and the compass shows 278° 278° + 22° = 300° Most of the maps have a small arrow, which indicates where the magnetic North Pole is, how big the deviation is, respectively (it is indicated in degrees).

  • Page 50: Display Brightness

    Display brightness By pressing the "LIGHT" button, the display will be lit for approximately 5 seconds. Also, a permanent brightness of the display is possible. To activate the so- called "Night mode", press and hold down the "LIGHT" button for approximately 5 seconds.
  • Page 51 will be deactivated. The operation duration of the accumulator is of 8 hours when using the GPS, and in time mode of approx. 1 year. To avoid corrosion, we recommend you to dry well the contact points of the GPS watch, before starting a charging process. To charge the accumulator, proceed as follows: Fix the clip of USB cable on the GPS watch according to the following image and insert the USB cable in a USB connected to power from your computer.

  • Page 52: Replacement Of The Battery Of Chest Strap

    10 Data download runtastic Connect is a software to upload the training data from the watch to your runtastic profile, where you can then analyse the data.. 10.1...

  • Page 53: Installing Drivers For The Usb Cable

    Click to this arrow to open up the window completely: To sign up with your runtastic account, click on “Connect account”. Automatically you will be linked to the homepage of runtastic were you can log in with your Username. For creating an account please follow the...
  • Page 54 You can switch between the following windows: “User” “Customize”...

  • Page 55: 11 Technical Data

    “System” In each window you can make adjustments in the settings which will be transferred to the watch once you press the “Save” button. 11 Technical data GPS watch Power supply: Lithium-polymer accumulator, 380 mAH, 3,7V GPS accuracy: 3 meters CEP (50%) under clear sky conditions The indication of the accuracy is based on the so-called CEP 50% (Circular Error Probability).

  • Page 56: 12 Declaration Of Compliance

    R&TTE Directive 1999/5/EG: Shortened text of the declaration of compliance: By this, Krippl-Watches, declares that the GPS watch (Art.-No. RUNGPS1, Type: D02I280), as well as the chest strap (Art.-No. RUNGPS1, Type: T00018D) comply with the applicable basic conditions and dispositions of 1999/5/EG directive.

  • Page 57: 13 Faq/Correction Of Errors

    13 FAQ/Correction of errors Before claiming the GPS watch, verify if the accumulators are charged and charge them if need be. Also, check the batteries from the chest strap and replace them if need be. I’d like to start training, why doesn’t the GPS watch show speed? It is important for GPS fast reception that the watch be at rest and not to be on the move.
  • Page 58 How long does the accumulator of the GPS watch last? The service life of the accumulator is of 14 hours, when using the GPS, and of approx. 1 year in time mode. It doesn’t show my current speed, why? Check if you receive enough GPS signal. Why does the GPS watch show a certain speed, if I do not walk/I am not on the move? This depends on the exactness of position determination, measurement...
  • Page 59 Why when riding the bike, a different speed in comparison to the computer without bike cable is shown? Do not use the computer without bike cable and the GPS watch simultaneously. The signals of the sensor from the bike computer may disturb the GPS watch.

  • Page 60: 14 Warranty

    If you have a claim please contact: For Germany and Austria: service@runtastic.com For all other countries: Please contact the distribution partner in charge resp. to the point of sale where you have purchased the product.

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