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2014-05-12 11:15 AM

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Subject: PT G3 battery issues

Three times now Jrs. G3 Powertap has sat unused for a week because of out of town races, switching it over to 11 speed, blah,blah.  Each time he puts it back on his bike it won't sync up with his Garmin.  Each time I switched the battery out and it worked fine again.  What am I missing?  Is there a step to "wake up" the PT once it's down for a while?  Is this normal?  It works flawlessly otherwise.

2014-05-12 11:22 AM
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Does he use a HR monitor as well? Since I updated my Wife's Garmin 500 to the latest firmware, Garmin will occasionally not synch with PT g3 unless we disable her HR monitor. After it synch's we reenable the HR monitor and all is well. This has happened twice in the last 2 months.
2014-05-12 11:32 AM
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Originally posted by jheathjr Does he use a HR monitor as well? Since I updated my Wife's Garmin 500 to the latest firmware, Garmin will occasionally not synch with PT g3 unless we disable her HR monitor. After it synch's we reenable the HR monitor and all is well. This has happened twice in the last 2 months.

He does......I'll check that out, thanks.

2014-05-12 11:37 AM
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there was noise of a firmware update to correct this problem
2014-05-12 1:53 PM
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Originally posted by jheathjr Does he use a HR monitor as well? Since I updated my Wife's Garmin 500 to the latest firmware, Garmin will occasionally not synch with PT g3 unless we disable her HR monitor. After it synch's we reenable the HR monitor and all is well. This has happened twice in the last 2 months.

I don't use a PT anymore, but I do notice that when I'm using my quarq, I cannot do the manual calibration unless I have my HR monitor on and detected when using it with my Garmin 500.  It will still pick  up power and cadence, and but the calibration will not work.  I haven't updated my firmware in a while...but just chiming in that I have also had experience where the HRM could impact how the 500 connects to other ANT+ devices.  I heard about this from another online user, so I'm not the only one either.  Likely a firmware update would solve it...but I'm lazy.

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