A scary thing happened on my ride tonight.
Because it gets dark so early now, and I got off a little late, I took a different route than usual. At about the mid-point of my "detour" I noticed my Polar HRM/Cyclecomputer was all zero's. When I tried to scroll through the read-outs I'd get a reading for a second (which was way high or low) and then it would go back to zero's. I kept playing with it until I realized that I was riding directly under two huge high-power lines that lead to some huge refineries. Thinking that might have something to do with it, as soon as I was able to I turned off the road and within a minute or so of riding perpendicular to the lines my data came back! Unfortunately I had to get back on the "power" road to continue my ride and of course my data zeroed out, but when I finally turned off the road for good, within a minute all my data came back.
It just got me thinking...
Has that happened to any of you before?
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http://irondad06.blogspot.com/
http://irondad.blogspot.com/
Because it gets dark so early now, and I got off a little late, I took a different route than usual. At about the mid-point of my "detour" I noticed my Polar HRM/Cyclecomputer was all zero's. When I tried to scroll through the read-outs I'd get a reading for a second (which was way high or low) and then it would go back to zero's. I kept playing with it until I realized that I was riding directly under two huge high-power lines that lead to some huge refineries. Thinking that might have something to do with it, as soon as I was able to I turned off the road and within a minute or so of riding perpendicular to the lines my data came back! Unfortunately I had to get back on the "power" road to continue my ride and of course my data zeroed out, but when I finally turned off the road for good, within a minute all my data came back.
It just got me thinking...
Has that happened to any of you before?
___________________________________
http://irondad06.blogspot.com/
http://irondad.blogspot.com/