Polar FT60 Heart Rate Monitor (Purple) Watch for Women Logo
Posted on Feb 11, 2011

The battery was flat. renewed it and all working EXCEPT it no longer can pick up heart rate from monitor (tried it with another monitor and still will not pick up heart beat) Help Please...about to go on hols and need watch

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I guess stopped of use your strap for a long period of time. so you need to nicely clean the strap and try a lot of times until it work again.
I happend to me before and the strap worked only after the 10th session on the treadmill

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Aug 12, 2008

SOURCE: polar ce0537 watch screen goes

Have you had the battery tested? Try that, and we will go from there.Let me know, I can help you it just takes curtain steps to make sure we don't go through a bunch of things we don't have to in correcting this problem.

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  • Posted on Aug 22, 2008

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Hello,

It sounds like most of you have the heart rate set to display in % of max heart rate. Most Polar products have the option of heart rate in BPM(beats per minute) or percentage of max.

If you look at the display during the exercise, you will see a % icon. You can turn it off in by hitting the back button and go down to HR view settings.

Hope this helps.

Chris @ Polar USA

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  • Posted on Jan 11, 2009

SOURCE: replace battery in my Pola F11 Heart Rate watch

Yes, your watch will retain the same water resistance if you will not damage the rubber gasket. After replacing watch battery, clean that rubber gasket with lighter fluid(ZIPPO), place back in watch exactly as it was before and reassemble the casing.
If there are screws on caseback, do not overtighten them. At the same time do not leave them too loose.
Memorize how much power you needed to unscrew them and use the same to screw them back.
I'm recommending ZIPPO, because it would be difficult for you to get special cleaner and grease for gasket.
After cleaning the gasket with ZIPPO, rub a little bit of vaseline in to your fingertips and slide the gasket through them. That will do a good lubrication.
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  • Posted on Jan 11, 2010

SOURCE: the hearth rate only reads about half the actual?

Use this link to find out if you can get any help:
http://www.polar.fi/en/support/downloads?product=&category=User+manuals&document=/gip/PKBStoGIP.nsf/web_cat/C225742500419A8AC2256F4D003004C2 Unfortunately I can't fix anything unless I see it myself. All I can do over the internet is to give some advise.
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  • Posted on Mar 04, 2010

SOURCE: my heart rate monitor keeps stopping picking up my

Click on my profile (escapement), then click on Tips and Tricks. There you will find link to all POLAR watch manuals. Rate me, please.

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