GSC 10 died and gone to heaven

Muckers

Any hope of saving my Garmin speed/cadence sensor. It worked fine last week, and dead this week. Changed the battery and it was ok for one spin. Now it's dead again and no amount of battery changes will revive it.
Anything else I can do before binning it??????

smacl

A few of things I'd try, none of which may work;

- Leave it in the hot press over night in case there's been any water ingress and the electronics are damp.

- Open the battery compartment. Clean the contacts with alcohol, and check any sprung section is still springy. If the spring is looking iffy, you can improve the contact by making the battery a bit thicker by adding an extra conductive layer. I've hammered out a bit of solder for this purpose in the past.

- I'm not sure how the GSC10 is sealed, but if the above don't work and you're thinking of binning it anyway, I'd tend to try opening it and looking for a loose connection / dry joint most probably near the battery.

inc21

take the battery out and turn it wrong way for about 10 min. That will reset your gs10. turn the battery right way and look for new speed/cadence sensor on your garmin.

Muckers

Thanks for replies lads. Will try all those suggestions later

Muckers

No luck with that. Tried all that above and nothing.

G1032

Take out the battery and leave it out for 10 minutes or so. Same thing happened to mine before and I found that fix on the garmin site

Edit :
Now that I think about it I think I had to do that for the HRM as opposed to the GCS10. Sorry!

inc21

are the testing lights flashing at all when magnet passes?

Muckers

inc21 wrote: »

are the testing lights flashing at all when magnet passes?

No unfortunately.

Muckers

I've given up on it. I see Garmin are now offering seperate speed sensors and cadence sensors which are non magnetised. I don't need the speed one as gps does that, so a new cadence one will do the job.

inc21

Muckers wrote: »

No unfortunately.

Well, then I guess it's dead all right. Sorry