I think my battery needs to be replaced because my watch has been doing some interesting things. New battery is in the mail.
On my last ride, it didn't stop when I stoped for lunch. Is there a way to add lap markers and delete this section from the exercise.
Also is there an automatic error correction? For example, when I go past the hospital and my cadence shows 198, I know how to manually change the numbers. Is there a way to error correct (cadence, speed) the entire exercise in one step?
I am usually pretty computer savy, but for some reason between the directions and trying things, I am not doing well.
Polar 720i question
Tue, 05/03/2005 - 4:43pm
Tue, 05/03/2005 - 5:17pm
#1
Also experience same with 720i. 57th & Park pegs me at 64 mph and 196 cadence--stopped at a red light. Police radios, traffic signalsn (including those underground in the subways), antenna/satellite waves, etc. cause interference. I can't return from a workout in CP without having hit my max 196 cadence. Check your user's manual--you can delete workouts but not parts of workouts--including counting your jaunt past the hospital--you can stop your watch to begin a new lap or even stop it and resume when you see the interference has stopped, about the best you can do. The funny readings are probably not a function of the battery.
Tue, 05/03/2005 - 5:20pm
#2
One other point
"Check your user manual on settig bike function options: you can program your 720i for ""auto start""--start the frontwheel rolling and the clock/odometer begins--stop and the computer goes into standby. If you use autostart, when start your workout (hitting red start button) you must wait for a heart rate reading before you roll or you can throw it all off."
Tue, 05/03/2005 - 5:46pm
#3
Autostart problem
Autostart only works if the monitor thinks you are not moving.
On sunday we ate at the Sidewalk Cafe in Piiermont. I usually leave my monitor on during lunch so that I only have one exercise file. When I got back to the bike, which was not moving, the computer said it was going 16mph.
I wish there was a way to combine exercises or delete parts of exercises. Maybe in the next update!
Tue, 05/03/2005 - 5:51pm
#4
My old 710i, not your model, downloads to my computer and I can bring up the exercise as a curve – showing the peaks and valleys of my HR, speed, altitude, etc., over the time of the ride.
If I move my cursor on that curve and get a time reading of, say, 45’00”, I can right click and add from the menu a lap/time marker at that point.
Also, if I right click on the curve, the menu with error correction comes up. Only HR has a auto filter that gets rid of all anomalies. The others I have to do serially.
I still like to think I have a 229 bpm mhr!
Tue, 05/03/2005 - 7:40pm
#5
Try this site for answers
http://www.pursuit-performance.com.au/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi
It's the Australian Polar Forum.
Wed, 05/04/2005 - 7:09am
#6
Edit Files
Go to www.polar.fi for support. There is an explanation of how to combine files. Briefly, the data is in a simple text file, you copy the data from the later file and simply paste it into the earlier file. I also assume that you can edit the data in the text file as when the program needs to display the graph, it simply reads the data in the text file.
