Garmin premium Heart Rate transmitter
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Garmin premium Heart Rate transmitter
Postby Marty Moose » Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:28 pm
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Re: Garmin premium Heart Rate transmitter
Postby Baalzamon » Thu Aug 30, 2012 2:43 pm
I ended up going back and getting the old style as my last one survived 3 years before I screwed up the battery change. Get anything but the Garmin premium strap!
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Postby Costanza » Thu Aug 30, 2012 6:10 pm
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Postby Marty Moose » Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:33 pm
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Re: Garmin premium Heart Rate transmitter
Postby Phil » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:23 pm
Basically I use mine daily and I am lucky to get more than four months out of a Garmin Premium Strap. Been using the Polar ones - there was a nice little lurk where you could buy the Polar strap only from Ribble for $15 odd - I got three, and they are starting to get unreliable after eighteen months.
Going to go to the Old School Non Premium Garmin strap like Baalz next.
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Postby Cossie Phil » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:24 pm
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Postby warthog1 » Fri Aug 31, 2012 11:22 am
Maybe it's due to die. I'll try batteries before binning it though.
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Re: Garmin premium Heart Rate transmitter
Postby duds2u » Fri Aug 31, 2012 11:49 am
I used to have a Polar and never had any problems but with my Brynton 30 I was getting spurious readings, up to 245 bpm. The Polar had a different type of sensor pad.
My LBS contacted Brynaton and they took it back, checked it out and the transmitter was Ok,just a build up of salts in the web of the sensors on the belt causing the readings to go haywire.
Brynton sent back the transmitter, my old belt plus a new one at no charge. They only arrived yesterday but everything worked fine on this mornings ride using the old belt. I haven't used the new one yet and I will be washing the old one more regularly and see how it goes.
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Postby Cossie Phil » Fri Aug 31, 2012 6:49 pm
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Re: Garmin premium Heart Rate transmitter
Postby squizz_08 » Fri Oct 05, 2012 10:43 pm
Mine is going dodgy too...
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Re: Garmin premium Heart Rate transmitter
Postby Tim » Sat Oct 06, 2012 3:02 pm
My Garmin strap lasted less than 12 months. I rang Highly Tuned Athletes and was told they are a consumable product and not covered by warranty and that I'd had a good lifespan at just under 12 months. Sounds like BS to me. Expensive, poor quality product. Not happy.squizz_08 wrote:How long is the warranty on the Premium straps?
The Premium strap has been plagued with problems since the day of it's release. There are a multitude of dissatisfied customers out there.
We don't hear from Rob at Highly Tuned Athletes around here much any more. Perhaps he's tired of defending an accessory with known faults. Been quite a few problems with the Edge800 too from what I've read.
The arrogance of these big corporates bugs me. Garmin continue selling expensive fault ridden products at massive profits and basically turn their backs on their customers when things go wrong. Try ringing support, pftt.., waited 40 minutes and gave up. Email, no reply after several, polite efforts. I'll look elsewhere next time.
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Postby biker jk » Sat Oct 06, 2012 4:00 pm
There's a one year warranty on Garmin products so you should make a claim. The procedure is on the Garmin Australia website.Tim wrote:My Garmin strap lasted less than 12 months. I rang Highly Tuned Athletes and was told they are a consumable product and not covered by warranty and that I'd had a good lifespan at just under 12 months. Sounds like BS to me. Expensive, poor quality product. Not happy.squizz_08 wrote:How long is the warranty on the Premium straps?
The Premium strap has been plagued with problems since the day of it's release. There are a multitude of dissatisfied customers out there.
We don't hear from Rob at Highly Tuned Athletes around here much any more. Perhaps he's tired of defending an accessory with known faults. Been quite a few problems with the Edge800 too from what I've read.
The arrogance of these big corporates bugs me. Garmin continue selling expensive fault ridden products at massive profits and basically turn their backs on their customers when things go wrong. Try ringing support, pftt.., waited 40 minutes and gave up. Email, no reply after several, polite efforts. I'll look elsewhere next time.
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Postby Aushiker » Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:11 pm
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Postby Marty Moose » Sat Oct 06, 2012 11:02 pm
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Re: Garmin premium Heart Rate transmitter
Postby squizz_08 » Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:36 pm
Add me to the list of those not getting a 'premium' strap again...
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