LifeSource XC 300 User Manual

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Congratulations on your purchase of a new LifeSource Heart Rate Monitor. The LifeSource Heart Rate Monitor is a high-technology wireless device designed to instantaneously monitor your heart rate with 99% accuracy. From beginning athletes to Olympic athletes, for heart related patients, or anyone who wants to lose weight, the heart rate monitor is an effective way to monitor and improve your workout intensity and quality. If your heart rate is too high, it means you are overloading your heart. If your heart rate is too low, then you are not getting the full benefits of your exercise. Therefore, it is important that you keep your heart rate within your ideal zone. With the LifeSource Heart Rate Monitor, you will improve your performance by exercising smarter rather than longer or harder. For heart related patients, you can exercise within the limits set by your doctor, and feel more secure.

LifeSource has been manufacturing quality healthcare products for over 20 years. We are committed to providing you and your family with monitoring devices that provide the utmost in accuracy and convenience. LifeSource – your source for a lifetime of health.

HEART RATE MONITOR

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COMPONENTS ................................................................3

HOW A HEART RATE MONITOR WORKS .....................4

OPERATING TIPS ........................................................4-5

GETTING STARTED

WEARING THE TRANSMITTER BELT ..................

6-7

XC300 FEATURES AT A GLANCE ............................8

KEY FUNCTIONS ......................................................9

MAIN SCREENS ......................................................10

SETTING AND OPERATING

SETTING DAY/DATE AND TIME ..............................

SETTING AND OPERATING 24-HOUR ALARM ......12

VIEW/ACTIVATE/DEACTIVATE 24-HOUR ALARM.13

SETTING TARGET HEART RATE ZONE ..................14

ACTIVATING OUT OF TARGET ZONE ALARM ........15

VIEW TIME IN TARGET ZONE ...............................15

OPERATING STOPWATCH........................................16

SETTING/OPERATING COUNTDOWN TIMER...........17

PROGRAMMING CALORIE COUNTER .................18

REPLACING THE TRANSMITTER BATTERY ...............19

CARE AND MAINTENANCE .........................................19

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS .............................20

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS ....................................21

WARNINGS AND CAUTIONS........................................22

LIMITED WARRANTY ..............................................23-24

CONTACT INFORMATION.............................................25

COMPONENTS

YOUR LIFESOURCE HEART RATE MONITOR COMES WITH THE FOLLOWING COMPONENTS:

• Heart rate wrist watch receiver

• Transmitter

• Adjustable chest strap

• Bike handlebar bracket

The followng documents:

• User Manual and Quick Start Card

• Workout Guide with Training Diary

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HOW A HEART RATE MONITOR WORKS

Your new LifeSource XC Heart Rate Monitor is a sophisticated athletic training tool that is capable of measuring your heart rate with 99% accuracy. Top quality heart rate monitors use a chest strap to pick up the electrical signal caused by the contractions of the heart and transmit the information to the watch.

Every time the heart contracts, a short radio signal is sent from the chest transmitter to the watch. The watch measures the time between the incoming signals, filters and averages them and displays a heart rate number on the screen. The heart rate display on the screen is updated every few seconds to assure you of an accurate measurement.

OPERATING TIPS

To achieve the most accurate heart rate reading possible, it is important to be aware of circumstances that can cause false signals to enter the system and make your heart rate measurement incorrect.

1. Your chest strap should be worn as tightly as possible without being uncomfortable. If the chest strap is not tight enough, movement between it and your body can cause false signals to be generated that may be seen as heart beats by the watch. This is especially true during high impact activities such as running.

2. Environmental factors such as high-tension power lines, home security systems and radio towers may interfere with the ability of the watch to receive a signal from the transmitter. A loss of the heart rate signal and the heart rate display showing zero will usually indicate this. This problem is transient in nature and will stop once you have passed out of the area of interference.

3. Occasionally, if you are using your heart rate monitor in close proximity to other heart rate monitors, it is possible for your watch unit to pick up the signal from the other transmitters as well as yours. This is called cross-talk. When you are experiencing cross-talk, you will see a very high heart rate or a heart rate of zero, if the combination of heart rates is greater than 240 beats per minute. If this happens, simply allow a bit more space between you and the other users.

4. Some clothing fabrics, especially in dry climates, are capable of generating a great deal of static electricity. This static electricity is capable of significantly interfering with the signal from the transmitter. This shows up as erratic readings on the display. Over time you should be able to tell what clothing, if any, you own which cause this problem. Sometimes spraying the clothing before you workout with a commercially available antistatic product will help reduce the problem.

5. If you are using your heart rate monitor indoors on an electrically powered piece of exercise equipment it is possible that the power sources found in the equipment may interfere with the heart rate signal in much the same way as in point 2. If you find that your monitor is not working, try moving it to your other arm, or to another location on the piece of equipment itself until you find an area where there is no interference.

6. Heart surgery or coronary events may cause changes to the function of the heart that will make it difficult or impossible for your heart rate monitor to get a proper reading. Contact your physician to determine whether you have a condition related to the above.

Being aware of these circumstances and knowing how to avoid them will significantly increase your enjoyment of your new LifeSource Heart Rate Monitor.

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GETTING STARTED

1. In dry and cold climates it may take a few minutes of use for the electrodes to soften and a layer of perspiration to form between the contact and the skin for good performance. Moistening the electrodes with saliva or conductive gel can speed up this process.

To ensure the most accurate operation we recommend wearing the chest transmitter against your bare skin.

Users with a lot of chest hair may have a problem getting contact between the transmitter electrode areas and their skin, resulting in poor performance. Because of this it may be necessary for these individuals to shave the area of their chest beneath the transmitter.

Do not use water, moisturizing creams or suntan oil, as these are insulators and will interfere with the heart rate signal.

4. Wear the wrist receiver as you would any wrist watch. Keep the wrist receiver and the transmitter within 3 feet/1 meter of each other. You can also attach the wrist receiver to the bike handlebar bracket included in the package.

3. Adjust the strap so the transmitter fits tightly below the pectoral muscles with the LifeSource logo centered on the sternum as shown in the picture.

2. Moisten the electrode areas —located to the right and left on the back side of the transmitter —with saliva or conductive gel.

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GETTING STARTED

WEARING THE TRANSMITTER BELT

To ensure a proper heart rate detection, the chest transmitter must be moistened and properly fitted.

Electrode areas

1. Snap the plastic tabs at the end of the adjustable strap into the holes at the end of the transmitter.

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