I have the CED and like it. It is small. It won't pick up pistol dry fire, but will pick up the slide going home. I use it for practicing dry fire multiple times a week. I'm sure it sees a lot more beeps in rapid succession than a lot of them do. I have to charge it like once a month and it has never really run out of juice on me. A session is usually 15-30 mins and the par time is set to around 1.2 for reloads so it beeps a lot. I don't think it would have any issue going to an all day match.
Pros:
- Small size
- Easy to use once learned
- I like the software interface - it makes sense to me.
- Good battery life.
- The beep volume can be adjusted (not sure how many others do this)
- I like having the start and review button both on the front and top. Makes it easy to operate no matter what. Haven't done it, but don't think it would be a problem to use it with gloves on if you are scorekeeping at a match.
Cons:
- Kind of PIA that they want you to buy all of the accessories. The case, belt clip, etc. It would be nice to have something besides a lanyard in the box. I think I'm going to try and use some velcro on it to stick to my gear.
- Small screen, but I also think the small size of the unit is nice. I can live with this.
- The button printing sucks. You have to learn the buttons because reading them is really hard due to non-contrasting letters. They are pretty small, but the ones you use the most are also up top.
- Doesn't pick up dry fire like it states. Not aware of any that do.
For the complaints above:
- The CED can restart without hitting the second button. Have to RTFM and change the option.
- You can also change the battery out. Mine is new so no issues here, but I wouldn't expect to have to in a year and a half.
