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Is your Polar Wearlink strap giving you Grief?

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  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    bump
    Why?
  • porcelain_doll
    porcelain_doll Posts: 1,005 Member
    I just got my strap back from Polar. Well, they replaced it, actually. They said this strap has stronger electrodes than the one I had. I wonder if I had washed the other one using your directions what would've happened. Oh well. But I was having all the same problems as you. Quite irritating.
  • happycauseIride
    happycauseIride Posts: 536 Member
    Bump. Thank you.
  • jknoell
    jknoell Posts: 254 Member
    Thanks to OP for posting - I thought I was the only one with this problem!!
  • Doberdawn
    Doberdawn Posts: 733 Member
    Mine does this too. I have the RS100. I will try your suggestion.Thanks.
  • lutterby
    lutterby Posts: 61 Member
    Thanks for posting this
  • dnish53
    dnish53 Posts: 162 Member
    My strap is 3 years old, but I am going to try the suggestions tonight. Thanks.
  • Kacy
    Kacy Posts: 43 Member
    Bump! I always get 00 or "check heart rate transmitter". Tried the battery. I will try this.
  • hnyb1212
    hnyb1212 Posts: 17 Member
    Bump
  • dixiewhiskey
    dixiewhiskey Posts: 3,333 Member
    How do I know if I am using the wearlink.. I just got a FT40.. sucks to read that a few people have had problems with theirs in such a short period. Makes me worry a little cause I am in love with mine
  • merflan
    merflan Posts: 216 Member
    I was having lots of problems. The signal kept coming and going. I tried changing all the batteries, cleaning it etc. I read that if you turn the strap so that the monitor is on the side, over your rib cage. It worked like a dream.
  • Doberdawn
    Doberdawn Posts: 733 Member
    Mine does this too. I have the RS100. I will try your suggestion.Thanks.

    Been following this advice since November. No more problems. Works great! No more issues. If I get a funky reading... I just put it in the superhot water and give it a scrub... back in order just like *snaps fingers* that.
  • andyxbear
    andyxbear Posts: 269 Member
    Bump.
  • blysard
    blysard Posts: 2
    After just a few months of use, mine Polar FT60 began to give me random 220 readings and then jump to 00.

    I tought it was the strap too (always rinse, clean, etc), but as my wife has another polar that use the same strap and wearlink (the transmitter), I could check which one of mine was faulty.

    Turned out that my strap was fine, the problem was on the wearlink (transmitter). Really lame.
  • EmmaLA16
    EmmaLA16 Posts: 94 Member
    Mine has started playing up this week, which is so annoying as I have only just started Turbo Fire and wanted to track for the first couple of weeks.

    Thanks for putting this on here, I thought it was going to take a nasty email to polar to get sorted!

    Emma
    x
  • EmoJew
    EmoJew Posts: 94 Member
    Bump in case!
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