Troubleshooting Heart Rate
Table 6 may help you understand and troubleshoot erratic heart rate readings.
Important: A heart rate can only be detected when the Precor heart rate receiver is properly installed in the display and the EFX is turned ON. You must also wear the chest strap.
Table 6. Erratic heart rate readings
What appears |
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on the display | Cause | What to Do |
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Nothing | The heart rate | To purchase the heart |
| receiver is not | rate option or receive |
| installed or it | Customer Support, |
| has been | refer to Obtaining |
| disconnected. | Service. |
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— — — | A heart rate is | Be sure the heart rate |
| not detected. | receiver is installed |
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| properly and that the |
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| chest strap is moist, |
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| centered, and in direct |
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| contact with your skin. |
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What appears |
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on the display | Cause | What to Do |
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Pulsing HR LED | The LED lights | If the LED is pulsating, |
| briefly when a | it indicates that the |
| heart beat is | heart rate equipment is |
| detected. | working properly. |
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Note: To conduct electrical impulses from a user’s heart, the electrode strips on the chest strap must be in contact with the user’s skin. Usually, the concentration of salts in a person’s perspiration provides enough conductivity to transmit a signal to the receiver in the display console. However, because of body chemistry or erratic heartbeats, some people cannot use the heart rate feature.
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