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cadence on cycle-computer reading wrong....

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  1. Hi all

    I have a ~6 weeks old ECHO-F2 cycle-computer, the one with cadence on my Trek 1000 road bike (2004).
    It was working fine for 5 weeks and several hundred miles..... All of a sudden last week the cadence
    function has gone off-this-planet. The other functions seem to still work fine.

    The cadence appears to be reading double. I.e if I feel like I am doing ~80rpm it shows me ~160rpm.
    When I feel like I am doing ~100 rpm it shows near zero cadence (I presume it tops out cadence at
    200 rpm?).....

    Any thoughts what it may be? Perhaps there are some known issues with this computer or with cadence
    function in general that I can tell my bicycle shop which sold and installed it? They lubricated the
    contacts but it did not help.

    To make it worse - at lower cadence it seems to be reading correctly most of the time (all of the
    time?) i.e. at 20-30-40 rpm seems fine, once I climb into 70+ it seems to go all weird on me.

    It is not a wireless computer, as far as I can tell, it is rather inexpensive one....

    thanks in advance!
    --
    Yuri

  2. Suppose the sensor is a reed-relais that's bounces when the cadence magnet is passing a lilte bit
    too fast. Instead of giving a one shot pulse there are 2 of more pulses. You may try an other magnet
    or change its position first (not only closer but also turn around and try lower of higher position.
    Maybe you can change the position ot the reed relais by turning the sensor 180 degrees.

    Ton

    "Yuri Budilov" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:nEg_b.72133$Wa.67869@news-
    server.bigpond.net.au...

    Quoted message said:

    Hi all

    I have a ~6 weeks old ECHO-F2 cycle-computer, the one with cadence on my Trek 1000 road bike
    (2004). It was working fine for 5 weeks and several hundred miles..... All of a sudden last week
    the cadence function has gone off-this-planet.


    The

    Quoted message said:

    other functions seem to still work fine.

    The cadence appears to be reading double. I.e if I feel like I am doing ~80rpm it shows me
    ~160rpm. When I feel like I am doing ~100 rpm it shows near zero cadence (I presume it tops out
    cadence at 200 rpm?).....

    Any thoughts what it may be? Perhaps there are some known issues with this computer or with
    cadence function in general that I can tell my bicycle


    shop

    Quoted message said:

    which sold and installed it? They lubricated the contacts but it did not help.

    To make it worse - at lower cadence it seems to be reading correctly most


    of

    Quoted message said:

    the time (all of the time?) i.e. at 20-30-40 rpm seems fine, once I climb into 70+ it seems to go
    all weird on me.

    It is not a wireless computer, as far as I can tell, it is rather inexpensive one....

    thanks in advance!
    --
    Yuri

  3. thanks

    I moved the magnet just a few mm sideways away from the main sensor and it seems to have cured the
    problem.....

    "TonV" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Suppose the sensor is a reed-relais that's bounces when the cadence magnet is passing a lilte bit
    too fast. Instead of giving a one shot pulse there are 2 of more pulses. You may try an other
    magnet or change its position first (not only closer but also turn around and try lower of higher
    position. Maybe you can change the position ot the reed relais by turning the sensor 180 degrees.

    Ton

    "Yuri Budilov" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:nEg_b.72133$Wa.67869@news-
    server.bigpond.net.au...

    Quoted message said:

    Hi all

    I have a ~6 weeks old ECHO-F2 cycle-computer, the one with cadence on my Trek 1000 road bike
    (2004). It was working fine for 5 weeks and several hundred miles..... All of a sudden last week
    the cadence function has gone off-this-planet.


    The

    Quoted message said:

    other functions seem to still work fine.

    The cadence appears to be reading double. I.e if I feel like I am doing ~80rpm it shows me
    ~160rpm. When I feel like I am doing ~100 rpm it


    shows

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    near zero cadence (I presume it tops out cadence at 200 rpm?).....

    Any thoughts what it may be? Perhaps there are some known issues with


    this

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    computer or with cadence function in general that I can tell my bicycle


    shop

    Quoted message said:

    which sold and installed it? They lubricated the contacts but it did not help.

    To make it worse - at lower cadence it seems to be reading correctly


    most

    Quoted message said:

    of

    Quoted message said:

    the time (all of the time?) i.e. at 20-30-40 rpm seems fine, once I


    climb

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    into 70+ it seems to go all weird on me.

    It is not a wireless computer, as far as I can tell, it is rather inexpensive one....

    thanks in advance!
    --
    Yuri


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