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Altimeter crash with rain

raphnou
over 2 years ago

Hello,

I use google translate to converse with you.


On my outing yesterday, I have the alitmeter which crashed for several kilometres, the altitude remained blocked and the slope indication remained at zero during the crash.
I lost about 200m of elevation on the exit
Has anyone encountered something similar?

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    On my past Garmins it’s usually due to water getting in the holes for the sensor on the bottom of the Garmin that will cause that

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    If a waterdrop enters the height sensor this is how it is. Plain physics.


    If you use Garmin Connect, you can overrun the altimeter data and check "Elevation Corrections" when displaying the activity. You find it below the picture of the 1040 on the right. If activated all altimeter data of that particular activity are discarded and GPS data is used instead. This is reversable. So you don't loose anything. 

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Alexander108

    I'm no expert, but that is different from how I understand Elevation Corrections to work.  I thought it kept altimeter data but applied a slow correction to make it match map elevation data.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to looigi

    I just tried it. You're right, . Just tried it. If I activate it on a course that I have followed 100% as planned it is still not the same elevation. However, a friend who had such an issue with a blocked altimeter was able to salvage his training data with this function. Maybe it is more aggressively overriding the altimeter data the more off they are. Which would be good.

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    Simple solution - move to Southern California, where we are in the throes of a mega drought.  It did rain today, though - 0.06 inches!