Code: XXX Shipping: Canada: $60.89 Worldwide: $49.89 (I do NOT ship to Mainland China, South Korea, North Korea, Brazil). Southeast Asia buyers - See the bottom for delivery times!!!! No Reserve. PLEASE READ EVERYTHING BEFORE BIDDING!!!!! READ THE HOW IT WORKS!!!!! ********************************************************************************** Here's what you get: 1. NEW Rotational (RPM) Laser Quartz Sensor Speed Meter for Clearaudio Cartridge Tonearm Turntable. 2. Instruction manual. 3. Storage bag with wrist strap. 4. Reflective foil adhesive strips. (You can use any reflective material - a thin strip of aluminum foil and some scotch tape or rubber cement, even a wrapper from a chocolate bar). 5. Perhaps a little reminder card so you can get a hold of me. ********************************************************************************** Battery Tip: Powered by 9V Battery (NOT INCLUDED). Tip: If you do not use it for a long period of time please remove the battery. Batteries can leak, so check it once every 2-4 months and use a name brand battery and not a no-name battery. Nothing fancy is needed, just your average battery. In Canada and the USA just something like your everyday Mallory or Eveready battery is fine, no need for Duracell akaline. This really is just to reduce the chance of your battery leaking and corroding if you use no-name dollar store batteries. ********************************************************************************** Specification: Display : 5 Digits in 18mm display Test range : 2.5 to 99,999 RPM Resolution : 0.1 RPM (2.5 to 999.9 RPM) ----photo shows 3794 RPM on a house fan which is above 999.9 ----> a record would read 33.3, 45.0, 78.0 if your turntable is accurate. It would not read 33.33 or 33.333. I just used some thin foil tape I had around that I was going to try and make my own huge heil AMT's with Neo magnets (one of my projects). Accuracy : +/- 0.05% ********************************************************************************** Storage Tip: I recommend storing it in a ziplock plastic bag by your turntable to keep it pristine. Tip: The display has a plastic protective film on it. You can read the display with the film on it. I recommend just leaving the film on it to protect the lens to keep the display flawless and free from fingerprints and swirl marks from using say windex and a clothe to clean the display. ********************************************************************************** SECONDARY uses ---> if you get creative you can use the beam to align your speakers to your sitting position and get an idea of woofer excursion. You can use the beam to give you an idea when you are pushing your woofers into over excursion. If you were to attach a piece of paper to the woofer with a small hole say 10 mm back. You shoot the beam at the card ---> once the woofer hits 10 mm ---> it lets the beam through the hole and the beam hits the next thing like a wall. You could also reflect the beam at say 15-20 degrees off of a small mirror and the reflected beam would hit a wall. Then you can get an idea of the movement based on the amount of movement of the beam on the wall. ********************************************************************************** How it works: You can use it 2 ways. The key is it uses a laser (note the yellow laser label) & laser light sensor & lastly a quartz timer. I like method 2. 1. The included sticky reflective tape strips. Cut a small strip say 2 cm long and then attach it to the edge of the platter. Play your record. Point the meter at the edge of the platter and it shoots a laser out the front and it reflects when it hits the strip. The laser bounces and hits a laser light sensor in the front. It then counts the time for between the pulses with a quartz timer of the bounced laser off of the reflective tape. Based on the time it then calculates the RPM and displays it as say 33.3 or 33.7. It's good to 1 decimal point. I've used it to even calculate the quality of the bearing and how many times the platter will rotate from speed to rest. The best I've done is around 40 rotations with a new full ceramic bearing method. One person with a high end table from Australia actually got about 20 rotations and his table on a over 175 pound turntable without arm. Using a bearing from a special Redpoint based table that was built as part of the Randall Museum Project in San Francisco does around 15 rotations. Another of my projects.....a full ceramic bearing turntable & air bearing turntable that should outclass many turntables. The meter also takes into account the drag of the cartridge. 2. The second method is to do the same thing but attach the foil tape to song 1-2 of a record you don't care about (Best Canadian Polka Hits of 1953 - Decca Pressing). Then drop your cartridge onto song 4 or 5 so it does not hit the foil tape. Play and take your reading. This method is if you don't want the foil tape on the platter. The other advantage is this keeps your platter mat clean from dust! ********************************************************************************** It will even give you periodic readings if you keep it pointing at a platter and say spin it by hand to say 66.3 RPM with no motor running. The next reading might be 60.9 and then 53.1, etc. as the platter slows due to the drag of the steel spindle on the bronze vertical wall lubed with oil and then the ball bearing on the the nylon/bronze/steel/ceramic/sapphire thrust plate. This is if you keep your finger pressed on the unit. ********************************************************************************** Shipping: Shipment is by Canadapost.ca by air. It is by Canadapost by truck normally if you live within a few hundred miles of me --> so Vancouver (air), Montreal (truck). Please make payment within 48 hours or please make contact within that period of time about payment. Shipping will take around 12-15 BUSINESS days typically. This is what I average for items shipped to me from the USA to Ottawa, CANADA and it is the same going the other direction. Europe, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Australia are typically 18-25 BUSINESS days. Malaysia, Vietnam, SE Asia 25-35 BUSINESS days. You must be patient please. I ship typically within 72 hours after you have made payment, not including weekends. Unless there is really ugly weather like snow, rain, wind. Say it's -39 degrees Celcius with 50 km/hr winds --> no this Canadian beaver is not going to the post office! I pay about 16.5% on fees, exchange rate, etc. on shipping. If I charge $100 for shipping I get $83.50. This covers my trip to the post office, standing in line, fill out any forms, return home, materials, handling. If you do not agree my shipping is not fair, kindly do not bid. Local pick-up is NOT an option. If your item has not arrived 15 BUSINESS to the USA days after shipment please kindly contact me. I am on Eastern Standard Time. This is the same as New York City. ********************************************************************************** An international service center (ISC), an international mail processing facility. There are only five such USPS facilities in the United States, located in Chicago, New York, Miami, Los Angeles and San Francisco. If you live in an ISC city, service is faster than if you live say in Bremerton, Washington State which has to go through San Francisco. If you live in Denver, this will likely go through San Francisco and then loop back to Denver as an example. ********************************************************************************** Thanks!
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