my HRM is going wacky. I’m new to HRMs. My mom got me a Polar S625X for Xmas. So, I’m riding, today and occasionally taking a glance at it. An hour into my ride and I’m dead. My HRM shows no heartbeat. I tap the watch to the transmitter, which is a way to check what your limits are set to, and that works, so it’s transmitting. To make sure I’m not dead, I stop to take my pulse. Nope, it’s about 130. The watch stays at zero for the rest of the ride. I get home, put the bike away and I happen to take another look. Hooray! I’m alive! It’s reading 85.
Anybody know why it shut down on me?
it could be:
interference
dry strap
I ran Tuesday night, at first it simply stayed blank (I was still breathing so I figured there was a Heart beat there if it could find it) then once it started the readings were inconsistent, 150-71-200-70 and so on. This is because of the strap and I normally soak it before I leave on a run, Tuesday I did not and the readings were crap.
If you run it under a tap before you put it on the reception in my experience in better.
I do that, but my ride was rather easy today (coming off that dreaded cold) and the weather was fairly cool, so maybe it dried out. When I stopped, the moisture built up enough to get a reading. Either that, or my heart did stop and restarted itself.
I have the same problem especially on the bicycle. I've tried several different HR monitors and it's alway the same; I'm dead or sometimes beating at half speed. I think it's the shape of my ribcage or maybe I just send out a weak signal. I gave up and only use a HR monitor on the trainer where I can fiddle around with it. Outside I'm usually in zone 4 anyway trying to keep up with the hotshots around here.
I’m going to try an experiment. Instead of wetting the strap wit water, I’m going to try salted water. Salt conducts electricity better… it may help. It may burn my skin, too.
I even tried EKG gel. NG, I'm just dead.