expiredIndigoFuel8490 posted Aug 20, 2024 05:55 PM
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expiredIndigoFuel8490 posted Aug 20, 2024 05:55 PM
Garmin HRM-Dual Heart Rate Monitor (Black)
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The strap just fails. Just about everyone that uses it seriously will say it fails around the one year mark or sooner. Less frequent use might push it out a bit longer.
It doesn't matter how much you wash it, clean it, love it, the damn thing will just stop working.
The issue presents itself as a dying battery, and one might think that it makes sense, you've had it for a long time. Replacing the battery will bring it back, but the new battery will die much more rapidly. Another battery goes in, maybe because you bought a cheap one from HF, or it's an old one you had laying around. That one dies in a handful of weeks, too. Then, a quick google suggests that it was user error when changing the battery. The stupid seal, it got messed up, and that's what happened.
It's the strap.
I say this, because I went through the trouble of figuring this part out. I had a chat with CS, got a new one under warranty. Hooked up the new unit to the old strap, dying battery in a few weeks. I bought a cheap replacement strap, REPLACED the battery with a new one from HF, has been going strong for quite a while now, hundreds of hours if I were to guess.
If anyone has this unit, buy a cheap strap online this very moment and throw out the Garmin one ASAP. It's likely gonna fail, and it will kill your battery. A lot of people talk about the comfort of the Garmin strap, and while it is theoretically more comfortable than the old hard straps, it doesn't mean squat when you're actually using it and comparing them to other brands like Wahoo or even the cheap replacements.
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Edited to add after looking at it, looks like it does have BT compatibility, so that's cool
Edited to add after looking at it, looks like it does have BT compatibility, so that's cool
How do you like that? Do you use it with a Garmin watch? I just picked up an Epix and was looking for an HRM.
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The strap just fails. Just about everyone that uses it seriously will say it fails around the one year mark or sooner. Less frequent use might push it out a bit longer.
It doesn't matter how much you wash it, clean it, love it, the damn thing will just stop working.
The issue presents itself as a dying battery, and one might think that it makes sense, you've had it for a long time. Replacing the battery will bring it back, but the new battery will die much more rapidly. Another battery goes in, maybe because you bought a cheap one from HF, or it's an old one you had laying around. That one dies in a handful of weeks, too. Then, a quick google suggests that it was user error when changing the battery. The stupid seal, it got messed up, and that's what happened.
It's the strap.
I say this, because I went through the trouble of figuring this part out. I had a chat with CS, got a new one under warranty. Hooked up the new unit to the old strap, dying battery in a few weeks. I bought a cheap replacement strap, REPLACED the battery with a new one from HF, has been going strong for quite a while now, hundreds of hours if I were to guess.
If anyone has this unit, buy a cheap strap online this very moment and throw out the Garmin one ASAP. It's likely gonna fail, and it will kill your battery. A lot of people talk about the comfort of the Garmin strap, and while it is theoretically more comfortable than the old hard straps, it doesn't mean squat when you're actually using it and comparing them to other brands like Wahoo or even the cheap replacements.
The Garmin app itself could be considered "extremely limited", as it doesn't allow you to do anything without a Garmin device. You can't just fire up the app on your phone and go for a run and track it. You'd need a watch (or another Garmin personal device).
If you are considering a HRM, you do some strenuous activities, you log them with some app that also logs things from your activity, at the minimum is time. It's easy to buy this and connect it to a phone, tablet, bike, whatever.
***If anyone has this unit, buy a cheap strap online this very moment and throw out the Garmin one ASAP. It's likely gonna fail, and it will kill your battery.
If not, then stay with your ANT+ (the ANT+ battery lasts a lot longer, and the strap is basically indestructible).
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