Polar CS600 Power - First on the Block...

jeff262

I'd like to thank everyone on this thread for all of the great information. I have been a long time Polar HRM user (running and cycling) and with the help of the great info here recently installed the CS600 with Power. Everything seems to be working well with one exception. I am unable to change the "pace" display on the CS600 from minutes per mile to mph. I don't understand the idiocy of even having such an option on the display.

I have tried the following:
In Pro Trainer I have gone to the Edit Person dialog window, selected units tab and changed the pace setting to mph.
In the same dialog window I have gone to the sports tab, selected cycling, clicked edit and changed pace to mph.
I have changed all possible settings I can find in the CS600 window in Pro Trainer and transfered to the CS600.

I can't find any way to make the change directly on the CS600.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm not very good at converting minutes a mile to mph on the fly!

Thanks.

J\V

I'm pretty sure saw that setting in the menus of the cycle computer, so you might want to dig around there. Of note, I wanted to change my display configuration, and looked at the PT5 window for doing so. For some reason, it does not give all of the data options for the middle and lower rows, so I guess this is better done 'manually'.

If you can't find the place in the cycle computer to make that setting, let me know by PM, but I'm sure it's there (and based on the above, I might not bother with PT5 for setting such things).

J\V

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J\V

Or maybe not. I just flipped through the User Manual, and could not find any setting listed for the cycle computer. However, with how bad manuals are these days, it may still be there, buried amongst who know which menu.

As an aside, when you are transferring settings to the cycle computer from PT5, you are staying within the same configuration window, and then immediately hitting the 'Transfer' button, correct? I think this needs to be done for each 'page', as the 'Transfer settings' (or whatever it's called) is only good for that one page, not for all changes one might make on the different 'pages'. Hope that makes sense.

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'07 S-Works Tarmac SL, Polar CS600+Power
2008 Cervelo P3C, Zipp 808s

'07 Specialized Epic Marathon w/Crossmax SLRs
CycleOps Pro 300PT Indoor Cycle Trainer (my winter ride)

jeff262

Thanks. I did not find anything in the manual. I even did a word search in the html version for "pace" and "speed" and found nothing.

You are correct. when I am transferring it I stay within the same window. I went through every setting I could find on the CS600 and even set items I could find back to default with no success. The only locations I can find that changes pace between mph and min/mi is in the person properties dialog box under measurement units and under editing the sports, but I don't see how that is transfered. There is no location for changing in the CS600 dialog box on ProTrainer or on the CS600 directly that I can find. I have emailed Polar with no response. I guess I will have to give them a call. Thanks for your input.

kytyree

Have any of you had problems with updating the cycling displays using PT5? I can do it manually and get what I want but its time consuming. Everytime I try and do it via PT5, I set up what I want in the window, hit the transfer icon and then when its done updating all of my settings are wrong. It will still display what I wanted on PT5, but the CS600 has something else for the displays, particually power is always replaced by cadence, so I end up with cadence twice in the bottom of each display, instead of power and cadence in its little box.

Thanks for all the info on here though, it made setting the system up much easier for me. It will take some adjusting too but so far I like it.

PolishPostal

Here is a website with a nice writeup and photos of installation.


http://mywebpage.netscape.com/rechu...stprotocol.html
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/rechu...s710photos.html

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Tom Anhalt

This discussion has been about the NEW polar setup...but as long as we're putting up links to setting up the original Polar PM, here's another:

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~univ2040/Pol...lation%201.html

PolishPostal

Tom - Did you find those photos of your setup?

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Jore V

Here's my setup (CS600)


http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/?op=l...touserid=169101


And every gear combo (50/38 – 12-23) CS600 works just fine, no matter where I ride. Mudfield or stone soil, anything goes. I'm very happy with it.

Tom Anhalt

Yep...and I posted them here:

http://biketechreview.com/phpBB2/vi...t=1429&start=25

...and I guess I'll do them here too.

OK...I've had some time to take some pics of my setup. Here's the "overall" view:



Here's the top view:



Here's a closeup of the derailluer cable routing:



..and another:



And finally, a pic of the setup on my other bike, where you get to see my favorite mount material...automotive fuel line!:

manos

I have broken the one off the three lugs off the Polar cs600 that has to hook on the base.

I have been glue the small piece back but I don’t trust it, for sour very soon I go to louse it on my way

I don’t now what to do …..

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stevevinck

What is the size of the power unit ?

I'm really considering buying one but I don't think the build of my bike is suitable.


I drive a Koga Myiata with campa record compact 50-34 with 12-27

Some thoughts ?

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Jore V

New sensor is only about 14 cm long, and distance off cadence magnet mark to the point on sensor’s back which is important to the chain, is less than 7 cm.
I think it's OK.

http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/?op=l...touserid=169101

Shawneebiker

Update to the latest software on Polars website and it will take care of the Pace/Speed issue...