Product Description : Amazon.com Product Description : Brunton's Nomad V2 Pro compass is the ultimate weather center/digital navigator combo. The digital dynamo offers such weather-related data as altitude, barometric pressure, and up-to-the-minute temperature readings, so you'll know whether to turn back on a hike or keep trudging along. At the same time, the device takes both compass bearings and directional readings--a must when exploring unfamiliar terrain on backpacking trips or performing a professional survey. Add in declination adjustments for regions with magnetic variation and a built-in bubble level and you have a powerful tool that excels at virtually any outdoor application. The Nomad V2 Pro is extremely accurate regardless of the measurement, with a barometric pressure resolution of 0.02 inHg (1 mbar/hpa), an altimeter resolution of 1 foot, a compass resolution of 1 degree, and bubble level precision of +/- 2 degrees. Users will also dig the 20 altimeter memories, which are great for training purposes. Other features include temperature readings in both C and F, accumulated and maximum altitude readings, a backlit digital display that offers dual date and time readings, and two daily alarms. The Nomad V2 Pro, which measures 3.5 by 2.3 by 0.7 inches (W x H x D), comes with a wrist/neck lanyard and is backed by a one-year warranty. What's in the Box?Nomad V2 Pro, wrist/neck lanyard, 3-volt lithium battery, user's manual. Product Description : Nomad V2 Pro -- Digital Altimeter -- This digital dynamo offers compass bearings, direction readings and is even declination adjustable. Add weather information like altitude and barometric pressure to the mix, and you've got a powerful tool. I love this tool and used it regularly on a recent motorcycle tour of Colorado. The barometer showed local atmospheric conditions and helped us with daily route planning and it was fun to use to the altimeter and see just how high we were - over 12, 000 feet in Rocky Mountain National Park. The compass came in handy on our hikes.This is not a difficult tool to use and the displays are easy to read. It appears to be made of the usual Brunton quality. I didn't give it five stars because of the included instructions. Finding this hard to read document riddled with typos and confusing layout included with this sophisticated instrument struck me as bizarre.Instructions aside, this is one useful gadget. I'm frankly amazed at how many features are packed into the Nomad V2 Pro - and they all seem to work flawlessly! Plus, the V2 can be configured to display functions such as altitude, barometric pressure, temperature and time in various combinations or units of measure. Though I have yet to test it at high altitude, the V2 seems durable, accurate, and with a display that is easy to read. There is no "off" switch but the unit seems to use very little power. My V2 was in operational mode when I bought it and I don't know how long it had been sitting in the display case at my local REI store quietly ticking away, but I have yet to replace the battery! (There's a good reason why it's always "On". As with any electronic altimeter/barometer/compass, powering it down would necessitate recalibration each time the unit is to be used.)One caveat: The printed instructions are definitely a challenge - murky and containing several typos that will have you pressing the wrong combination of buttons or looking for buttons that don't exist. (You'd think by now that companies such as Brunton would have figured out that lousy instructions are DEADLY to consumer acceptance of otherwise very cool products!) At any rate, the four buttons on the V2 that control functions ARE logically laid out and this makes calibration a fairly straight-forward process once you've figured out the drill and then practiced it a few times.I'd highly recommend the Brunton Nomad V2 Pro to anyone who is serious about trekking or navigation. And were it not for the ineptitude of the printed instructions I would be raving about it! They might have spent more on documenting the setup instructions of this instrument. A multi-column micro-font single sheet of paper is just plain cheap!The altimeter isn't much help because it requires constant calibration, as does an altimeter in an aircraft. The difference is that aircraft altimeters are designed to be calibrated, this one is not.
