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23-01-2006, 14:14
I just got a PowerBall Neon Blue. It isn't working quite the way I'm led to expect:
1. When I start it spinning (with the cord), neither I nor several other (stronger) people have been able to get more than 1900 rpm or so initially - hardly 2500.
2. It's not silent while spinning - it makes a kind of clicking noise.
3. After I do start it, and immediately turn it over and begin 'stirring', it doesn't provide much resistance - a little, enough to make me make shorter, faster cycles, but not as much as I would expect. And it doesn't keep going, even though I keep moving my wrist without much clunking - it spins down very rapidly.
Nick Tarleton
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Hi Nick
Hope you are having a good Christmas there.
It sounds like you are not in proper sync with the rotor (the clicking/clunking noise is indicitive of this) - you need to slow down the initial turns of the hand/wrist until the rotor speed builds to a sufficient degree (in reaction to that hand/wrist movement) - for more information on a developing a proper technique with your new Powerball, please click here.
Hope this helps and with kind regards, Rory
1. When I start it spinning (with the cord), neither I nor several other (stronger) people have been able to get more than 1900 rpm or so initially - hardly 2500.
2. It's not silent while spinning - it makes a kind of clicking noise.
3. After I do start it, and immediately turn it over and begin 'stirring', it doesn't provide much resistance - a little, enough to make me make shorter, faster cycles, but not as much as I would expect. And it doesn't keep going, even though I keep moving my wrist without much clunking - it spins down very rapidly.
Nick Tarleton
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Hi Nick
Hope you are having a good Christmas there.
It sounds like you are not in proper sync with the rotor (the clicking/clunking noise is indicitive of this) - you need to slow down the initial turns of the hand/wrist until the rotor speed builds to a sufficient degree (in reaction to that hand/wrist movement) - for more information on a developing a proper technique with your new Powerball, please click here.
Hope this helps and with kind regards, Rory