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HR sensor is simply a joke ...

Former Member over 8 years ago

Hi,

A post just in case I can help someone saving some money from buying this rubbish watch.

Yeah, I'm just fed up. I just can't understand how Garmin could have sell such broken HR sensor except to make money.

Let"s face it the thing just doesn't work except if you're interested to have some rough estimation of your HR or maybe if you want to track your HR when sitting down or sleeping... yeah so useful.

If you're interested to analyze the data while running/cycling accurately I would strongly advice to buy an HR belt: much more accurate and much cheaper.

Hope that helps.

0 ASmugDill over 8 years ago

@Antforce:
Wait for the HR sensor to lock on before starting the activity. I usually press to prep my FR235 for a Run as soon as I leave the apartment complex where I live, giving it sufficient time to lock on both my heart rate and GPS satellites as I walk to the street corner (near a park in the city) where I usually start my runs, and only there will I press again to start the timer and begin recording the activity.

0 webvan over 8 years ago

That could help...or not. There's really no "foolproof" way to get the OHR to work properly 100% of the time on the FR235. Must have tried all possible scenarios over the past year and sometimes it just loses the plot for no good reason.

0 9971476 over 3 years ago

For a modern update: nothing seems to have changed in 2022. The heart rate is a joke. I have an exercise loop with a mate that consists of cycling and then table tennis. Contrary to what might be expected, our cycling is very sedate while the table tennis is crazy, long competitive rallies with a big sweat. Yet the watch routinely (not once but many times) records 156bpm for cycling and 80bpm for table tennis. It's clear the watch is working off the GPS and not the true heart rate.