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Anyone here have the Garmin magnetless speed sensor? Mine are giving me a fit!
m1xm0d3
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I have 2 Garmin magnetless speed sensors and both are giving me a fit with connectivity. My Garmin Edge 500 and Zwift are detecting repeated signal drops. Sometimes like 2 or 3 times within a 10 second span. I un-paired/re-paired, changed the effing expensive batteries, all to no avail. Wondering if I should send Garmin a scathing letter of disapproval and go for the GSC10 or if there are any other speed specific sensors I can replace these POS's with? Thanks in advance.
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big thread on the subject - have to admit i've not read it as I don't actually have those sensors (still got something like 5 GSC10's kicking around the house!)
https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?103783-Any-major-issues-with-Garmin-s-new-magnet-less-speed-cadence-sensors/page9
erratic readings from "magnetized chains" and simply signal loss through distance where using them on the rear hub jumped out at me...
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big thread on the subject - have to admit i've not read it as I don't actually have those sensors (still got something like 5 GSC10's kicking around the house!)
https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?103783-Any-major-issues-with-Garmin-s-new-magnet-less-speed-cadence-sensors/page9
erratic readings from "magnetized chains" and simply signal loss through distance where using them on the rear hub jumped out at me...
Thanks, Mark. I believe I may have read that thread already because the one person saying the sensors may be in shipping mode (if that's a real thing), I already exhausted that option by changing the batteries. I guess my only recourse is to try front hub mounting and going for a stroll outside to see if it holds a steady signal or cuts out.0 -
got some last week and have on bike rigged up to turbo trainer - seem to work fine so far0
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wesleepuntilthesungoesdown wrote: »got some last week and have on bike rigged up to turbo trainer - seem to work fine so far
See I thought so as well but are you recording both via Garmin and or Zwift? Do you have auto pause enabled and if so, do you notice any quick pause-resume sequencing?
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Just a thought... When you are riding indoors, you do remember to switch off the garmins gps, so it's just using the external sensor for speed/distance data ? I know that if I forget to do so on my Garmin 800 I get all sorts of spurious results from the log file.
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Just a thought... When you are riding indoors, you do remember to switch off the garmins gps, so it's just using the external sensor for speed/distance data ? I know that if I forget to do so on my Garmin 800 I get all sorts of spurious results from the log file.
just looked at the manual for the Garmin 500 - it's under <MENU> GPS / GPSStatus - Select "off" for indoor training. ( page 44 of the manual - http://static.garmincdn.com/pumac/Edge_500_OM_EN.pdf )
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Just a thought... When you are riding indoors, you do remember to switch off the garmins gps, so it's just using the external sensor for speed/distance data ? I know that if I forget to do so on my Garmin 800 I get all sorts of spurious results from the log file.
just looked at the manual for the Garmin 500 - it's under <MENU> GPS / GPSStatus - Select "off" for indoor training. ( page 44 of the manual - http://static.garmincdn.com/pumac/Edge_500_OM_EN.pdf )
Curious, I've never tried that. I will tonight! Although, when I rode last night I swear it didn't drop once which makes me wonder if it might have anything to do with where my bike was located inside my home (which was only about 2 ft away from the usual location) doubtful but I haven't ruled it out.0 -
try it - if the Garmin can get a GPS Signal, albeit intermittently, as soon as it gets a lock, it over-rides the figure from the Speed/cadence sensor - and as you're actually stood still, it throws the garmin into pause mode.
My usual training location is just near enough to a window, that the GPS wavers in and out of lock - so I get that problem every time - hence knowing to knock off the GPS before training on the Turbo
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wesleepuntilthesungoesdown wrote: »got some last week and have on bike rigged up to turbo trainer - seem to work fine so far
See I thought so as well but are you recording both via Garmin and or Zwift? Do you have auto pause enabled and if so, do you notice any quick pause-resume sequencing?
just using zwift at the moment, so no head unit being used at the same time (just ant+ from speed and cadence straight to zwift).
but before zwift I did use it with the Edge 25 with GPS off and it seemed ok (i think pause was set on).
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try it - if the Garmin can get a GPS Signal, albeit intermittently, as soon as it gets a lock, it over-rides the figure from the Speed/cadence sensor - and as you're actually stood still, it throws the garmin into pause mode.
My usual training location is just near enough to a window, that the GPS wavers in and out of lock - so I get that problem every time - hence knowing to knock off the GPS before training on the Turbo
I sure will. Problem is, this seemed to be just as frequent with my outdoor rides (rear hub) as well, to the point I turned off Auto-Pause because the repeated pause-resume-pause became too annoying. I'll post some feedback later tonight or tomorrow morning.wesleepuntilthesungoesdown wrote: »wesleepuntilthesungoesdown wrote: »got some last week and have on bike rigged up to turbo trainer - seem to work fine so far
See I thought so as well but are you recording both via Garmin and or Zwift? Do you have auto pause enabled and if so, do you notice any quick pause-resume sequencing?
just using zwift at the moment, so no head unit being used at the same time (just ant+ from speed and cadence straight to zwift).
but before zwift I did use it with the Edge 25 with GPS off and it seemed ok (i think pause was set on).
Cool ok. Thanks for the info.
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Over the past 2 days the speed sensor has been perfect. Not sure why because I haven't changed anything other than the battery 3 days ago where it still gave me problems upon replacement. Still haven't checked it on a ride outside though, nor have I checked the 2nd speed sensor I have on the MTB. Hopefully the relief will continue...0
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I almost bought this same sensor kit last week for my "nice" bike, but saw your post and will hold off on it (aha).0
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I rode again tonight. One quick pause-resume on Garmin Edge, no noticeable signal drops on Zwift but I'm usually watching something else... lol so I don't keep a direct eye on the screen every second. My bike is a bit closer to the PC and the USB dongle but that wouldn't explain Garmin and Zwift dropping at exact same times. Fingers crossed...0
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