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Just doesn't work
I bought this on Amazon's Friday Sale, thinking I had stumbled on to a good deal. Turned out to be not so good.
Basically, I just couldn't get the monitor to work. During a one hour workout, it would only sporadically pick up my heartbeat, and then, often as not, it would get it wrong - when measured by hand, a pulse of 140 showed up on the display as 83, 223, and 110.
I think I covered every contingency.
1) Conduction shouldn't be a problem. I started out by lightly dampening the pads (very lightly) but of course at the end of an hour I was dripping in sweat.
2) I'm fairly thin, not much adipose tissue in the areas the monitor is attached to.
3) No chest hair to speak of.
4) This was at a home, not in a gym, so there were no interfering monitors.
5) Behavior was the same all over the house.
6) I've used Polar monitors for years with nothing but success.
So, in conclusion, either I got a defective unit, or this thing is junk. Either way, I returned it to Amazon, (which is the easiest process in the world, thanks Amazon!) and will buy a Polar unit as a replacement.
