Soft and hard are problematic. hard is less problematic but still off.

A soft centre stuck in a polar strap is much better though

Have you tried replacing the batteries? That can help w/ something that relies on them.

The 310Xt is accurate if you dump the Garmin soft strap, and attach the ANT+ HR transmitter to a POLAR 'Wearlink +' Transmitter strap for about $17 from Amazon...see dcrainmakers review of this option.

I've been doing this for the last 9-10 months, works alright but a damning reflection on Garmin. If only there was a watch that did speed and HR out of the box (and worked as a power head unit)

Late to this, but FWIW I updated to 3.00 when it first came out and haven't had any problems (although, cough, I haven't been riding much). It looks like there have been two minor bugfix releases since then (3.10 and 3.20) but I didn't bother installing those.

In terms of comparing with another unit, the 3s & 30s is purely a realtime display thing (i.e. it doesn't affect recording at all) so it would be hard to do a true comparison, but to eyeball it it seems to do a good job.

Previously, I had my screen configured for Power (which obviously jumps around a lot) and Lap Power (which was very stable depending on the lap length) - I now have 3s (30s is a bit long for my liking) and Lap Power and I like that combination for a fairly smoothed "short term" view as well as the "long term" lap view.

I also haven't heard of or read of any major problems so I'd go for it if you haven't already.

I read that review of the Polar and bought one - It doesn't work for junk in the desert southwest. It is to dry here to work correctly and ironically I have went back to the Garmin one and it has been working just fine.

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I'll probably download the update this evening. And, I plan to configure my display similarly.

JOOC, have you done any testing to determine if the "average" is a rolling average (ie. it recalculates for the last 3s or 30s each time a new data point is taken - every second, I believe) or if it simply starts a new average every 3s or 30s (similar to Lap Average where each lap would be 3s or 30s)?

It would (obviously) be most useful if it were the former. But, this is Garmin we're talking about...

Steve

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