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in the area of exercise equipment. If it
does not and it works outside or
another area of the house, the location
is very difficult for wireless heart rate
measurement and the equipment
should be moved to another location.
g) Receiver has broken down for
some reason.
Question 3: Irregular heart rate
reading
Answer 3:
a) The most common reason for
irregular readings especially at the
beginning of exercise session is that
there is no proper connection between
skin and the electrodes of trans-mitter.
To ensure a proper connection,
electrodes should be wetted prior to
exercising.
b) Elastic strap is too loose allowing
ransmitter to move during exercise.
c) Ensure that there is no anyone else
wearing a transmitter in the reception
area of your receiver. If there are other
transmissions close to you crosstalk
may appear, unless you are using the
coded Products Polar products.
d) Pacemaker and other implanted
devices may change the electrical
characteristics and operation of heart
so that transmitter detects several
beats instead of one beat.
e) Some people have a reversed ECG
signal compared to normal a ECG
signal possibly causing a transmitter
to send two pulses for each heart
beat. Please turn transmitter upside-
down.
f) Interferences. Electrical equipment
such as monitors, motors, LED
displays, transformers switches,
cellular phones and etc. generate
electromagnetic noise which may
cause missing or extra pulses
resulting in incorrect heart rate reading
