A heart rate monitor is very helpful in achieving an effective work out. Knowing your Heart Rate is pivotal to know if you need to level up your exercise or to slow down a little bit. But how can that be possible when you are having a problem on your heart rate monitor. Problems that can arise are: No Heart Rate display, Inconsistent Heart Rate, Frozen Display and a lot more. Ease your mind, we can help you to fix the problem so let's start!
We have listed the root cause why you are having a problem in making your Heart Rate Monitor to work and what are the troubleshooting you can do solve the problem.
Cause of Problem on the Heart Rate readings
1. Electrical interference
-There are a lot of external sources that can cause interference: electrical appliances such as TV, Computer that uses electricity and even power lines near our device can cause an interruption when the chest belt is transmitting data to the watch causing erratic readings.
2. Not enough voltage of battery
-Do I need to mention this one? Battery is the life force of our Heart Rate Monitor and Chest Strap, you need to make sure that the batteries has enough voltage for the unit to work.
3. Not enough moisture on the chest belt
-Did you know that moist can help the chest strap make good contact with the skin? Wetting the grooved sensors of your chest belt using water, sweat and even saliva can be beneficial to register good connection between the chest belt and your skin.
4. Improper position of the chest strap
-This is the most important thing we should need to be aware of; the proper position of the grooved sensor. We should not position the chest belt on just any part of the body, it must be position where it can directly pick up data to be transmitted to the watch.
We have tackled the reasons why we are experiencing problem in our Heart Rate Monitor now we should discuss what are the steps we can do to fix the problem.
1. Move away from the source of interference.
-As much as possible perform your exercise or fitness regime on a place with no interference. Take the living room for example there is a bunch of appliances can be found that can cause interference so better do your exercise outside.
2. Replace the battery for both the chest belt and watch
-When the readings are getting erratic or you are noticing that the connection between the watch and chest strap is ceasing for a couple of times then it's time to replace the battery either of the watch or chest strap.
3. Wet the grooved sensors of the chest belt
-On your first use you may use water to wet the conductive pad of the chest belt, eventually when you are doing your exercise and you are already sweating a lot, sweat can used to moisten the belt. One thing to bear in mind you should wet the conductive pad of the chest belt or the grooved sensor. You may take a look on the image below for you to have an idea which is the conductive part.
4. Wear the chest strap correctly
- Where should you position the chest belt? Chest belt should sit snugly below the pectoral muscles and in direct contact with your skin. Avoid wearing the chest belt on the part with dense hair to avoid interruption on the transmission of data.
5. Clean the transmitter
-Sweat can build up on the chest strap thus preventing the chest strap to report the correct data to the watch. We strongly recommend cleaning the chest strap by rinsing it with fresh water to avoid sweat build up. Do not use abrasive or corrosive materials to clean the chest strap; abrasive cleaning agent may scratch the plastic parts and corrode the electronic circuit.
6. Using a Heart Rate Gel
-There are so called Heart Rate Gel that can be used to get better conductivity. It is designed to improve the connection between your heart rate monitor's chest strap and your skin. This is a very good option especially if you find sweat and saliva gross to put on the groove sensor of the chest strap.
You may also check the infographic we have made to help you guys fix the problem in your heart rate monitors!
How about you, what are the trouble shootings you have done to make your heart rate monitors work? Please share and let us know.
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