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PRECISION ENGINEERING
Suunto Clinometers are precision engineered with high-grade materials for maximum durability and precision.
ESSENTIAL TOOLS
Suunto Clinometers are relied upon by professionals who require accuracy and speed, across a multitude of disciplines.
ACCURATE MEASUREMENT
Suunto's family of clinometers are accurate to 1/4° for excellent measurements of heights and slopes.
Lynette Deschenes
2025-09-05 13:04:51
Palm sized Clinometer for measuring angle or elevation of slopes. Easy to read & lightweight. Comes with a lanyard so you can wear it around your neck when in the field & it has a pouch & belt loop to keep it safe from scratches & secured on your body when navigating through woodsy areas or when working near machinery. Great product!
Dirk J. Willard
2025-09-03 18:04:50
I bought this inclinometer because I needed an optical device I could fit in my tool pouch to measure heights in a refinery. This type of environment requires equipment be intrinsically-safe, i.e., unable to provide enough current to cause a fire. This pretty much rules out GPS, etc. Besides, as I explained to a friend once, GPS tells you where you are not how high something is in front of you.From my field tests I've found this instrument to be accurate to within +/- 1-ft. This is not as good as you would get with a theodolite (transit), which involves a tripod. A single measurement this way would be highly accurate, perhaps to an inch or so but would take a half-hour or so to set up, if you knew what you were doing. If you can live with the accuracy the PM-5 is great for fast measurements.The Clinometer works best on days when it is partially cloudy. Frequent use, say more than an hour, in bright sunshine, may cause modest headache and eyestrain.Here's how it work:1. Measure the horizontal distance first (D). Keep the tape straight.2. Measure the height of the instrument as you hold it (Ho).3. Hold the instrument by the brass handle and find the black eyepiece.4. Choose the best eye that sees close up.5. Close the other eye.6. Look for the horizontal hairline.7. To the right, is % slope (or height in ft at 100-ft); to the left is degrees.8. Zero with the horizon.9. Move the instrument to the desired elevation.10. Open the second eye using it to see the object for which you want the elevation.11. An optical illusion will bring the hairline in focus in front of the second eye.12. Adjust the instrument elevation and read the measurement.13. The best accuracy is with the degrees.14. Do the math: H = Ho + DTan(angle).If this review was helpful, please add your vote.
Adam
2025-08-23 11:38:54
This is a solid, well designed, and nicely manufactured product. And at a fair price. What more can one ask for?I've tried this to estimate the (known) height of several objects and structures. The calculations are very straight forward and easy to perform. The calculated results were closer than I would have expected. I think I'm going to love this!
Ralph J. Wiebe
2025-06-26 15:44:06
The discription of this product is misleading. The Suunto PM-5 is actually a clinometer . The only thing I could be critical of is the instruction manual. Of course that could be just me but it took me awhile to figure out how to use this instrument. One I did I was impressed with the ease in using it, its construction and the card that you view in the viewing portal. Again, I would highly recommend this clinometer.
Garry
2025-06-09 16:02:51
Hard to be a fanboy of inclinometers. Does what it's supposed to. What more?
Lee
2025-04-25 13:24:04
I just bought a second one (first one grew legs and I have not seen it since). I have used it in all kinds of weather in some pretty obnoxious environments when scouting for hiking trails and never has any problem with it. I found it easy to read. I mostly work with the low end of the % scale and have found the resolution meets my needs. I keep it in it's pouch and usually in my pack when not in use. I don't know how it would stand up to rougher handling.
WA engineerd
2025-03-31 12:32:08
I bought this to determine topographical slopes for drainfield design rough-in. I used it on a recent large commercial project before I had the topo survey. In checking the ground slopes from the survey vs. the clinometer, the clinometer was within a degree of the survey. Accurate enough for preliminary design, and in some cases, even accurate enough for design.
michael walczak
2025-03-10 15:43:44
not enough instructions, illustrations or examples or formulas to show how to use the instrument.
Gustavo C.
2025-03-01 19:29:34
Excelente producto, cumpliendo con la descripción del vendedor
Cliente
2025-02-07 15:30:05
Me daba un poco de miedo el tema de la mira, por un ojo se mira la escala y por el otro se mira el objeto al que se quiere apuntar, pero no contaba que al tener los dos ojos abiertos, las imagenes se cruzan y podemos ver por los dos casi lo mismo, por lo que gracias a este efecto podemos concretar el punto.
Client d'
2024-12-20 15:28:08
Suunto est la référence
Intra Voxel
2024-11-14 17:23:45
Well made, easy to use
Speed Freak...
2024-11-13 12:35:41
Macht was es soll....ist schon das 2.Gerät...da ich sehr zufrieden bin damit und funktioniert sehr genau....
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