The latest (and greatest!) finger stick chips are now available from your SPORTident dealer.
Both the SI-10 and SI-11 have a data transfer time of 60ms, which is double as fast as the SI-6 that they replace. Also, they can hold up to 128 controls, again double what an SI-6 could manage. Yet the price is essentially unchanged.
In addition the SI-11 will confirm a successful control punch, by showing a blinking light in the tip of the control.
The battery in the finger stick is used exclusively to blink the light. It is rated to 30,000 control punches (which the American elite orienteer Ali Crocker has calculated would take her about 12 years).
Once the battery expires, the SI-11 will continue to function identically to the SI-10.