Daewoo Elment Bolt Issues

[sone]

I’m having a couple of issues with the above wondered if I were alone. Firstly slight ghosting at the bottom of the screen secondly intermittent issue with heart rate monitor, in fact this afternoon it went off after a few minutes. The chest belt monitor still has the two flashing lights but the screen reads n/a. I’ve tightened the belt but can’t think of anything else to try.
Any ideas?

Cheers

Steve

[RLE]

Mine is the same with the Garmin HR monitor. Either get a static reading of 72 or two dashes. The HR strap usually seems to be the culprit as opposed to the Wahoo unit. Have you tried washing it thoroughly? Some have had success with wetting it, others upgrade the strap.

I would hazard a guess the unit is probably not at fault. Well I hope not.

[HardtopManual]

Polar HR strap.

[E65Ross]

Use ultrasound gel. Much better than water!

[sone]

I’ll give it a go thanks.

[idiotgap]

When my garmin HR monitor started acting up, I noticed the rubber parts were coming away from the fabric. I bought a £5 replacement strap on ebay and it's been perfectly fine ever since. Well worth a try.

[sone]

My concern is that mine is virtually new, only had maybe 10-15 hrs of use.

[E65Ross]

Most of the time it's either something interfering (eg clothing.... Some base layers can do this), poor Contact (try ultrasound gel from amazon..... Cheap enough!) or battery (very unlikely in this case.

[anonymous-user]

I went thru about 3 HR monitors until I found a reliable one.

I bought a Wahoo tickr in the end

[sone]

keirik said:

I went thru about 3 HR monitors until I found a reliable one.

I bought a Wahoo tickr in the end

It’s the tickr I have, I’ve noticed both lights are flashing when I put it on. Daft question but which way round should it be worn? Back of unit against skin (black side or the badge side so to speak?

[E65Ross]

sone said:

keirik said:

I went thru about 3 HR monitors until I found a reliable one.

I bought a Wahoo tickr in the end

It’s the tickr I have, I’ve noticed both lights are flashing when I put it on. Daft question but which way round should it be worn? Back of unit against skin (black side or the badge side so to speak?

Black side against skin. Make sure the unit is the correct side up, too (ie if someone is facing you they should be able to read Wahoo)

[sone]

E65Ross said:

sone said:

keirik said:

I went thru about 3 HR monitors until I found a reliable one.

I bought a Wahoo tickr in the end

It’s the tickr I have, I’ve noticed both lights are flashing when I put it on. Daft question but which way round should it be worn? Back of unit against skin (black side or the badge side so to speak?

Black side against skin. Make sure the unit is the correct side up, too (ie if someone is facing you they should be able to read Wahoo)

Thank you!

[E65Ross]

No worries, try some of this

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000Y4DWYS/ref=cm_sw_r...

It's what I use, I was getting erroneous readings and found this helped all my issues. You only need a very small amount. A couple of pea sized blobs is enough.

[idiotgap]

I didn't realise yours was new, mine gave out after 18 months or so. I need only lick the sensors on mine and get a reliable reading all the time.
I'm not sure it matters if you have wahoo, garmin, polar or any other. The dimensions of the press studs seem to be always the same, there has been speculation there's ultimately only one manufacturer for the electronic part.

[sone]

Just been out for a ride, before I started I changed the battery in the belt. It came on at first a stalled at 80bpm and then went off. Just to rub salt into the wound tho the screen has developed more ghosting and a couple of vertical lines.
It’s going back to the shop tomorrow !

[sone]

E65Ross said:

sone said:

keirik said:

I went thru about 3 HR monitors until I found a reliable one.

I bought a Wahoo tickr in the end

It’s the tickr I have, I’ve noticed both lights are flashing when I put it on. Daft question but which way round should it be worn? Back of unit against skin (black side or the badge side so to speak?

Black side against skin. Make sure the unit is the correct side up, too (ie if someone is facing you they should be able to read Wahoo)

Thank you!

[E65Ross]

sone said:

Just been out for a ride, before I started I changed the battery in the belt. It came on at first a stalled at 80bpm and then went off. Just to rub salt into the wound tho the screen has developed more ghosting and a couple of vertical lines.
It’s going back to the shop tomorrow !

Could potentially be an issue with the unit itself. Do you have another way to test the unit? Some smart phone apps are available to detect HRMs, so may be worth trying one of those to see if it's an issue with the Element Bolt, or the HRM itself.

Be good if you can give that a go and let us know I feel your pain, I was getting loads of weird HRM issues....found it was worse with a specific base layer I was wearing, and worse in the winter. I sweat very little unless it's hot, hence I find the ultrasound gel really good.

[sone]

E65Ross said:

sone said:

Just been out for a ride, before I started I changed the battery in the belt. It came on at first a stalled at 80bpm and then went off. Just to rub salt into the wound tho the screen has developed more ghosting and a couple of vertical lines.
It’s going back to the shop tomorrow !

Could potentially be an issue with the unit itself. Do you have another way to test the unit? Some smart phone apps are available to detect HRMs, so may be worth trying one of those to see if it's an issue with the Element Bolt, or the HRM itself.

Be good if you can give that a go and let us know I feel your pain, I was getting loads of weird HRM issues....found it was worse with a specific base layer I was wearing, and worse in the winter. I sweat very little unless it's hot, hence I find the ultrasound gel really good.

I’ll get googling!

Cheers

[sone]

So took the bundle back to Evans in Brum and good as gold they called me today to tell me to pick up new complete replacement. All good until I got it home. This time all my fault started to set it up and set the language to something like Hebrew or whatever. So now I can’t read the instruction to reset or start again. Any ideas I’m stumped. Tried holding the button for 10 seconds but nothing!
What a wally!

[bigdom]

If you hold the up + down + power buttons for approximately 10 seconds it should restart your unit, and perform a hard reset in the process.