Garmin

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Steve NordRunner Feb 2023 9:41pm, 9 Feb 2023 2,664 posts	Steve NordRunner Well, I tried 🙂
quimby Feb 2023 9:58pm, 9 Feb 2023 6,134 posts	quimby Thank you.
Steve NordRunner Feb 2023 10:01pm, 9 Feb 2023 2,666 posts	Steve NordRunner Moving to a metric country is perhaps above and beyond 😉
quimby Feb 2023 10:02pm, 9 Feb 2023 6,136 posts	quimby Hmm. I wonder if I can pin this bug on the Tories?
Steve NordRunner Feb 2023 10:05pm, 9 Feb 2023 2,668 posts	Steve NordRunner You are of course thinking of the I'm Backing Britain campaign of 1968 🙂 nostalgiacentral.com
Minimag Feb 2023 9:29pm, 10 Feb 2023 686 posts	Minimag My garmin elevation has started playing up, randomly dropping me 500m, and up again shortly after. Anyone experienced this (my run today will show this in the elevation section, as I have manually adjusted the summary - ascent)
Badger Feb 2023 9:06am, 11 Feb 2023 15,999 posts	Badger I haven't, but have heard of people getting jumps like that, usually because the barometer chip is dying, often because they don't deal very well with swimming. Do you swim with it? What model is it, does it have maps? They are designed for swimming but some of them used chips that could be damaged by chlorinated water if I remember rightly.
tipsku Feb 2023 9:43am, 11 Feb 2023 2,379 posts	tipsku Minimag, I have experienced this. It just drops during the run for no reason at all. I went swimming with a FR 745 last summer but only a few times in a pool. I prefer open water. It's supposed to be a multisport watch so should be working for triathlon. The GPS problem started around New Year, so several months after my last swim in August. So I don't see an immediate connection.
Minimag Feb 2023 11:40am, 11 Feb 2023 687 posts	Minimag It's a Fenix 6, and I havent been swimming with it. I have researched it a bit, and it might just need the altimeter 'hole' cleaned, I will try that and see if it works. I have also turned the auto calibrate function to nightly, instead of on to see if that helps
Badger Feb 2023 7:45pm, 11 Feb 2023 16,001 posts	Badger I've found a couple of threads on the Garmin forum for F6 and FR945 doing exactly that, dropping to -500m and then going somewhere vaguely back towards the right elevation. Doesn't seem to be that widespread and didn't see anyone saying they'd resolved it so not all that helpful.