Poor data, signal drop, all of the above

Former Member over 6 years ago

Hi,

I purchased my Vector 3's Feb 2019. I am using them with a Wahoo Elemnt Bolt. I have changed the batteries once, well before 120 hours. Shortly after that, I rode in light rain. In seems since then, the signal freezes, has a very big lag before any signal kicks on and constantly freezes.

In reading the Forum, there is a myriad of problems and solutions that honestly are so numerous, make me question this expensive purchase at all.

Is there one place where I can find a best practices document, rather than try to keep track of all of these fixes? Everything from Calibration, including the idiosyncrasies around temperature etc, to troubleshooting dropped signals, or should I just return them?

0 hansap over 6 years ago

Mine are out of warranty. I wish I could still return them for a refund. I have never been able to trust them in the roughly 18 months that I've owned them.

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

I have found a solution to my dropouts and power sensor missing problems. When I was photographing the caps for a warranty claim, I noticed that the contact points were dark with an oily substance - see attached. I suspect that it was the baby oil that I have been advised to apply to the batteries and had spread across to these contact points. I cleaned the contact points with a cotton ear bud and reinserted as normal. I then found that my dropouts had stopped. I cycled for a week without dropouts. Then the dropouts started again. So I inspected the contact points again and they were black again. I cleaned them and then tried to soak up any oil with in the pedal with the cotton bud. Now everything has been perfect. You may wish to offer this as a solution to any others with the problem.