How Do You Replace A Polar Heart Rate Monitor Battery?
Heart rate monitors, like those made by Polar, are an important tool in the training bag of many endurance athletes. Runners, cyclists and triathletes have found that training by heart rate allows them to make better use of their time spent training, ensuring that hard workouts are done at the proper intensity, while easier workouts aren’t overdone. A heart rate monitor consists of two parts: a transmitter, connected to a chest strap worn by the athlete, that picks up the heart beat through integrated electrodes; and a receiver, typically in the form of a watch, that receives the information and displays it to the athlete. Both the transmitter and the receiver require batteries to operate, and in the case of Polar heart rate monitors, these are not user-serviceable. Determine that the batter(ies) need to be replaced. On the receiver (the wrist portion of the unit), an icon shaped like a battery will appear when the existing battery is at 15 percent of capacity. There’s no indicator for
