Polar Electro A3 User Manual

1.

How to Put Your Heart Rate Monitor On

2. Functions and Modes of Polar A3
3.

How to Start and Stop

4.
Functions During Exercise
5.
After Exercising
6. How To Recall File Stored In Memory
7. Settings
8.
Target Heart Rate Zone
Heart Rate Monitor
9.
Resetting
Minimizing Possible Risks in Exercising
10.
with Heart Rate Monitor
11.
Technical Specifications
12.
User's Manual Limited Polar International Guarantee
USA/GBR
13.
Disclaimer
2.
Functions and Modes of Polar A3
How to operate the set buttons
Time of day display
• To move forward or back, use Up or Down
button.
Press OK
• To choose the value to begin adjusting,
press OK. It will begin blinking. Heart rate measuring
• Press Up or Down button to adjust the value
(The digits run faster if you press and hold
Press OK
the button).
Exercise recording
• Wherever you are in the settings, you can return
to the Time of day display by pressing and
holding OK.
Time of day display mode File mode
• Starting point for all functions • Shows the data recorded during the exercise
• Shows date and time
Setting mode
Press and hold OK to return to the Time of day
• Set different values
display, wherever you are in the Settings or File
recalling cycle. - 12h or 24h time mode
- birthday
When the alarm is turned on, the symbol
- target heart rate limits
appears on the Time of day display. When the alarm
- watch functions; alarm, time, date
comes on it will sound for one minute or you can
turn it off by pressing any of the four buttons.
Exercise recording mode
• In the Exercise mode you measure your heart
rate and record your exercise information in
a file
• You can view different information while the
heart rate monitor is measuring heart rate

Contents

1. How to Put Your Heart Rate Monitor On
The Polar A3™
wrist receiver
displays your heart rate
during exercise.
The transmitter
detects your heart rate
continuously and transmits
it to the wrist receiver.
The elastic strap
holds the transmitter in
the correct position.
Keep the wrist receiver within 1 meter/ 3 feet of
your transmitter. Check that you are not near other
people with heart rate monitors or any source of
electromagnetic disturbance.
3.
How to Start and Stop
How to Set up Your New Receiver
Press Up FILE
1. Press any of the four buttons twice to activate
Press Up the receiver. TIME is displayed. 12h is
flashing.
SETTING
2. Once awakened, the receiver will guide
you through the necessary settings.
Scroll up or down to set the right values.
Press OK to lock your selection.
Set the following:
12h or 24h time mode
Time of day
Date
Birthday
After setting your birthday, your target heart
rate zone based on your age is automatically
calculated.
After the settings are complete, the receiver
automatically goes to the Time of day display.
You can cancel the setting by pressing and
holding OK, but you can not start measuring
the heart rate before you have completed
the settings.
1. Attach the transmitter to the elastic strap. 2. Adjust the strap length to fit snugly and
comfortably. Secure the strap around your
chest, just below the chest muscles, and
buckle it.
3. Lift the transmitter off your chest and 4. Check that the wet electrode areas are firmly
moisten the two grooved electrode areas against your skin and the Polar logo is in
a central, upright position.
on the back.
4.
Functions During Exercise
How to Start
1. Press Signal button to turn the zone alarm sound
1. In the Time of day display
on or off.
press OK. Your heart rate
Press
2. Check the time of day by bringing the wrist
appears in a few seconds.
twice
receiver up to the Polar logo on the transmitter.
2. Press OK again. The stopwatch
3. Scroll up to select what values you want to
starts running and you can
view in the upper row of the display
start exercising. The exercise
during exercise.
data will only be stored if you have
turned the stopwatch on.
1. Heart rate in the target zone
is displayed
How to Stop
a) as absolute heart rate
1. Press OK to stop the stopwatch.
or
QUIT and paused stopwatch
Press b) as a % of maximum heart rate
appear. Measurement is paused.
once
Exercise is no longer recorded.
according to your lower row
selection.
2. Press Up or Down button to
exit the Exercise mode.
The receiver shows the Time of 2. Fitness bullets
day display within 5 minutes if
For every 10 minutes in TZ,
you forget to quit the heart rate
a
measurement mode when you
stopped the stopwatch and
removed the transmitter from
your chest.
Reset
If reset,
settings will
return to the
default values.
Signal
Alarm on or off.
OK
Starts measuring
heart rate. Starts and
stops the stopwatch.
Enters the displayed
mode. Locks in your
selection.
4. Scroll down to select what you want to view
in the lower row of the display.
1. Heart rate in beats
per minute.
2. Heart rate as a % of your
maximum heart rate.
3. Exercise time
4. Time of day
5. You can pause the stopwatch by pressing OK.
Repressing OK will restart the stopwatch.
After restart you will see the heart rate in the
appears.
lower row.
Up
Moves to the
following mode
or increases the
selected value.
Down
Returns to the
previous mode
or decreases
the selected
value.
Heart Touch function
Bring the wrist receiver
up to the Polar logo on
the transmitter during
exercise and you can
check the time of day.