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HOW TO START THE HEART RATE
MEASUREMENT
CHOOSE FROM THESE ALTERNATIVES:
Quick start
1. Wear the Transmitter and the Receiver as described earlier.
2. In the Time of Day mode, press STORE/LAP/RECOVERY.
Heart Rate Measurement starts.
The search for transmission code starts.
The heart rate reading appears on the bottom line in
a few seconds.
Stopwatch starts running.
Automatic recording of heart rate information starts.
Two touch start
1. Wear the Transmitter and the Receiver as described earlier.
2. In the Time of Day mode, press SELECT.
Heart Rate Measurement starts.
The search for transmission code starts.
The heart rate reading appears on the bottom line in a few
seconds.
3. Start the stopwatch by pressing SET/START/STOP.
Stopwatch starts running.
Automatic recording of heart rate information starts.
You will see immediately how many percent of the memory is left with
the default settings.
For example if all the memory is available, you’ll see MEM with
99 and % scanning in the lower right corner of the display.
HOW YOUR POLAR VANTAGE NV
AUTOMATICALLY SETS THE
TRANSMISSION CODE
The transmission code will be selected automatically by your Polar
Coded Transmitter in the beginning of each training session. Once
you have started the heart rate measurement as described earlier, the
following will happen:
1. The Wrist Receiver starts searching for your coded transmission
within 70 cms.
- - appears in the bottom of the display indicating that the
Receiver is searching for a code.
2. Make sure that the code search is successful:
During the code search (max. 30 seconds) keep the Wrist Receiver
near to your Polar Coded Transmitter, which you are wearing.
Also check that there are no disturbances near you during the code
search (for example other people with heart rate monitors, high
voltage power lines, televisions, cars, exercise equipment, etc.)
3. If the code search was successful, you’ll notice borders around the
heart symbol during measurement in the lower left
corner of the display. You can now start exercising normally.
4. If the code search was not successful (no borders around the heart
symbol), the Wrist Receiver treats Polar Coded Transmitter as a
regular Polar Transmitter. You can either start exercising normally
with uncoded transmission or check your environment, keep your
Wrist Receiver nearer to the Polar Coded Transmitter and restart the
heart rate measurement and code search.
5. The benefit of the coding is that you will not normally pick up other
people’s heart rate transmission and certain kinds of disturbances
are more efficiently filtered. How ever your training partner may
coincidentally have exactly the same transmission code. To check
your code number, bring the Polar Vantage NV Receiver next to the
Polar-logo of your Polar Coded Transmitter. The code in use and TC
start scanning in the lower right corner of the display. If you have the
same code number with your training partner you have the
following alternatives:
1. Keep distance to your training partner and continue your
training session normally
or
2. Stop the heart rate measurement and enter back to Time
mode. Pull the transmitter off your chest for 15 seconds
(code will be changed) and restart the heart rate measurement.
In some cases you may need to dry the transmitter electrodes
to ensure that the transmitter is turned off and on again, as the
sweat may keep it active even when it is off the chest.
