Avocet 35 clock is slow

[Timothy J. Lee]

What could be the problem with an Avocet 35 cyclocomputer whose clock is slow (about 1/2 speed)? The
result is that speeds and distances are much greater than actual (about twice). The battery is only
a few months old; this is the first time that I have seen this problem, despite using up batteries
before. Resetting and recalibrating does not seem to have any effect.

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[Mike Kruger]

"Timothy J. Lee" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> What could be the problem with an Avocet 35 cyclocomputer whose clock is slow (about 1/2 speed)?
> The result is that speeds and distances are much greater than actual (about twice). The battery is
> only a few months old; this is the first time that I have seen this problem, despite using up
> batteries before. Resetting and recalibrating does not seem to have any effect.

I don't know why the clock would be slow, and if that's really what's going on I'd return it.

Because somebody has to ask the dumb question, I will: do you have it set to "kilometers" when you
want it set to "miles"? This will make 6.2 miles show up as 10 (km), and 12.5 miles/hour show up
as 20 (km).

 

[Ray Heindl]

[email protected] (Timothy J. Lee) wrote:

> What could be the problem with an Avocet 35 cyclocomputer whose clock is slow (about 1/2 speed)?
> The result is that speeds and distances are much greater than actual (about twice). The battery is
> only a few months old; this is the first time that I have seen this problem, despite using up
> batteries before. Resetting and recalibrating does not seem to have any effect.

At a guess, I'd say it's broken. You might try taking the battery out for a while, like overnight,
to see if it resets to normal, but don't count on it.

I can't imagine why would a clock problem would affect distance readings; it's probably the
microprocessor that's FUBR.

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Ray Heindl

 

[Timothy J. Lee]

In article <[email protected]>, Mike Kruger <[email protected]> wrote:
>I don't know why the clock would be slow, and if that's really what's going on I'd return it.

I've had that cyclometer for many years.

>Because somebody has to ask the dumb question, I will: do you have it set to "kilometers" when you
>want it set to "miles"? This will make 6.2 miles show up as 10 (km), and 12.5 miles/hour show up
>as 20 (km).

I tried both miles and km. At a moderate pace on flat ground on a bike with fenders and rack with a
side bag, it was telling me that I was going over 30mph and over 50km/h.

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[Zoot Katz]

Wed, 15 Jan 2003 06:57:44 GMT, <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Timothy J.
Lee) wrote:

> At a moderate pace on flat ground on a bike with fenders and rack with a side bag, it was telling
> me that I was going over 30mph and over 50km/h.

Sell it to Fabrizio!

It's the only performance increase he's likely to see this year. . . being as all the truely elite
roadies are training already and he's still, to be polite, "otherwise occupied".
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[Frank Krygowski]

"Timothy J. Lee" wrote:
>
> What could be the problem with an Avocet 35 cyclocomputer whose clock is slow (about 1/2 speed)?
> The result is that speeds and distances are much greater than actual (about twice). The battery is
> only a few months old; this is the first time that I have seen this problem, despite using up
> batteries before. Resetting and recalibrating does not seem to have any effect.

Is the clock function itself slow? How's the stopwatch function?

Seems to me that if the clock unit on the chip(s) is off, those functions would be the first to
show it. Distance should be just a count of wheel revolutions, and shouldn't be affected by any
timing function.

If it were giving half the correct distance, I'd suspect the magnetic ring was out of kilter,
reaching the pickup for only half the revolution. Sounds like that's not the case.

Avocet does have a phone number for service. I'd try visiting their site and seeking help there.
They were very cooperative when my unit acted up. They fixed it for free, despite it being years and
years old.

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Frank Krygowski [email protected]

 

[Timothy J. Lee]

In article <Xns93049CC2BFD38amfm[email protected]>, Ray Heindl <[email protected]> wrote:
>I can't imagine why would a clock problem would affect distance readings

Since it works by sensing the number of revolutions per second, if its definition of what a second
is happens to be incorrect, the speed and distance will be incorrect in proportion to the
incorrectness of what it believes a second to be.

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[Dave Lehnen]

Timothy J. Lee wrote:

>In article <Xns93049CC2BFD38amfm[email protected]>, Ray Heindl <[email protected]> wrote:
>
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>>I can't imagine why would a clock problem would affect distance readings
>>
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>
>Since it works by sensing the number of revolutions per second, if its definition of what a second
>is happens to be incorrect, the speed and distance will be incorrect in proportion to the
>incorrectness of what it believes a second to be.
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>
>
No, Ray is right. A bad clock would affect speed, but not distance, which is based only on the
nember of wheel revolutions and the wheel size. A bad clock would make the time-of-day and ride time
readouts wrong, as well as speed. One thing that would make both the distance and speed too high is
double-triggering the reed switch or sensor, possibly from incorrect magnet orientation. I don't
know if the Avocet 35 is one of the computers that can have this problem; I know the Sigmas can. Or
its little micro-brain may just be fried.

Dave Lehnen