Polar Power Unit Help

John Mastrangelo said:

Hi folks,
I have a Polar Power unit that is no longer working or under warrenty
(bought used). The reason that it is not working is that all 3 wires
(red, blue and green) from the power unit cable have broken off from
the connector pins. I can fix it myself, but I do not know which wires
to connect to which connector pin.

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John Mastrangelo said:

I've done a web search but so far have had no luck. I've
broken out the multimeter (I am a EE) but the results are not conclusive. If
someone has a unit, and is willing to take the connector apart (it is made
of 3 sections that screw together) and let me know which wire connects to
which pin, I would be super grateful.

John Mastrangelo

Are you _sure_ you did a web search? ;-)

A 5 sec search of this newsgroup on google groups found this:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.tech/browse_frm/thread/c5dfa50edd455ef5/b05aaebec10617df?lnk=gst&q=polar+connector&rnum=4#b05aaebec10617df

That should do ya...

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Quoted message said:

Hi folks,
I have a Polar Power unit that is no longer working or under warrenty
(bought used). The reason that it is not working is that all 3 wires (red,
blue and green) from the power unit cable have broken off from the
connector pins. I can fix it myself, but I do not know which wires to
connect to which connector pin. I've done a web search but so far have had
no luck. I've broken out the multimeter (I am a EE) but the results are
not conclusive. If someone has a unit, and is willing to take the
connector apart (it is made of 3 sections that screw together) and let me
know which wire connects to which pin, I would be super grateful. If you
do, be careful that the cable does not twist too much with respect to the
connector sections (except the outer - that one doesn't grip the cable),
as the connections are fragile and I wouldn't want anyone to break their
unit on my account.

Thanks in advance!

John Mastrangelo

I had the same problem but had trouble soldering the small wires. I sent
it to Polar and they fixed it for free. It did take three weeks.

BobT

Thanks everyone. Problem is solved and I am back in the business of amazing
myself with my enormous power output 🙂

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Quoted message said:

Hi folks,
I have a Polar Power unit that is no longer working or under warrenty
(bought used). The reason that it is not working is that all 3 wires (red,
blue and green) from the power unit cable have broken off from the
connector pins. I can fix it myself, but I do not know which wires to
connect to which connector pin. I've done a web search but so far have had
no luck. I've broken out the multimeter (I am a EE) but the results are
not conclusive. If someone has a unit, and is willing to take the
connector apart (it is made of 3 sections that screw together) and let me
know which wire connects to which pin, I would be super grateful. If you
do, be careful that the cable does not twist too much with respect to the
connector sections (except the outer - that one doesn't grip the cable),
as the connections are fragile and I wouldn't want anyone to break their
unit on my account.

Thanks in advance!

John Mastrangelo