Polar Electro F6 User manual

Polar F6™
User Manual

Contents
1. GETTING STARTED ............................ 3
Get to Know Your Polar F6.................... 3
Enter Basic Settings .......................... 4
2. BEFORE EXERCISE............................. 5
Wear the Transmitter ......................... 5
3. DURING EXERCISE............................. 6
Record Your Exercise......................... 6
Buttons During Exercise ...................... 7
Views During Exercise........................ 8
Stop Recording and View Summary .......... 9
4. AFTER EXERCISE .............................10
Diary..........................................10
Follow-Up.....................................12
Files ..........................................13
Data Transfer.................................17
5. SETTINGS.....................................18
Exercise Settings.............................18
OwnZone......................................19
Other Settings................................21
6. CUSTOMER SERVICE INFORMATION .........24
Caring for Your Heart Rate Monitor ......... 24
Precautions ..................................25
Troubleshooting..............................29
Technical Specification .....................30
Guarantee and Disclaimer ................... 31
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1. GETTING STARTED
Get to Know Your Polar F6
Wrist Unit displays and records your
heart rate and other exercise data
during exercise. Buttons:
UP/DOWN: Move thru menu and
selection lists, and adjust values.
OK: Enter menu and confirm selections.
LIGHT: Illuminate display.
BACK: Exit menu and return to previous
level. Cancel selection and leave setting
unchanged.
Transmitter sends the heart rate signal
to the wrist unit. The transmitter
consists of a connector and strap.
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Getting Started 3

Enter Basic Settings
1. To activate your Polar F6, press OK twice. Once
activated, it cannot be switched off!
2. WELCOME TO POLAR FITNESS WORLD is displayed.
Press OK.
3. START WITH BASIC SETTINGS is displayed. Press
OK.
4. Time: Select either 12 H or 24 H.
5. Date: Enter date; dd = day, mm = month, yy =
year.
6. Units: metric (KG/CM) or imperial (LB/FT). By
selecting LB/FT, calories are displayed as Cal,
otherwise they are shown as kcal.
7. Weight: Enter your weight. To change units,
press and hold LIGHT.
8. Height: Enter your height. In LB/FT format, first
enter feet then inches.
9. Birthday: Enter your date of birth; dd = day,
mm = month, yy = year.
10. Sex: Select MALE or FEMALE.
11. SETTINGS OK? is displayed. YES: settings are
accepted and saved. The display returns to
Time mode. NO: Basic settings can still be
changed.
Press BACK to return to the data you want to
change.
After saving the basic settings, the F6 enters Time
mode.
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4Getting Started

2. BEFORE EXERCISE
Wear the Transmitter
Wear the transmitter to measure heart rate.
1. Attach one end of the transmitter to the elastic strap.
2. Adjust the transmitter’s strap length to fit snugly and
comfortably. Secure the strap around your chest, just below the
chest muscles, and buckle the strap to the transmitter.
3. Lift the transmitter off your chest and moisten the two grooved
electrode areas on the back. Check that the wet electrode areas
are firmly against your skin and that the Polar logo is in a
central, upright position.
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Before Exercise 5

3. DURING EXERCISE
Record Your Exercise
1. Wear the transmitter and wrist unit. Start heart
rate measurement by pressing OK. Preferably,
there should be no other heart rate monitors
nearby (within 1m / 3ft) to avoid interference.
2. Within 15 seconds, your heart rate appears on
the display.
3. Press OK. Record the exercise session by
selecting START and pressing OK.
You can adjust Exercise settings by selecting
SETTINGS. For more information, see page 18.
4. Press BACK to stop recording. Select EXIT to
view an exercise summary.
Troubleshooting:
•Your exercise information is saved only if the
stopwatch has been on for more than one
minute.
•OwnZone > Your heart rate monitor has started
to determine your target heart rate zone
automatically. Skip the process by pressing OK.
In this case, if you have not determined your
OwnZone before, your age-based heart rate limits
are used. For more information on determing
OwnZone, see page 19.
•START WITH BASIC SETTINGS > Press OK to
complete your Basic settings.
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6During Exercise

Buttons During Exercise
LIGHT
•Press once and the display will light up with every button press.
•Press and hold to lock or unlock buttons.
BACK
•Pause / exit exercise recording.
UP / DOWN
•Change exercise mode view.
•Press and hold UP to customize Exercise and Calories views.
Choose the upper row information from Time of day,
Calories/Stopwatch and Fitness bullets. A fitness bullet appears
for every 10 minutes in the target zone equaling one hour in total
if all the bullets appear.
OK
•Press and hold to change exercise settings without pausing the
exercise recording.
Bring the wrist unit neart
the transmitter to see the
time of day in Exercise
mode.
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During Exercise 7

Views During Exercise
View combinations of exercise data. Switch displays with UP/DOWN.
Exercise
Stopwatch
Heart rate
Calories
The calories expended
Heart rate
InZone view is only displayed when you have set heart rate limits active.
InZone symbol and time spent in zone*
Lower / upper limit values and Zone Pointer
Heart rate
*Smiley face means that OwnZone determination was succesful.
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8During Exercise

Stop Recording and View Summary
Press BACK to pause exercise recording. Select EXIT to stop recording and to view a Summary of your
exercise session:
Summary
Exercise duration (hh.mm.ss)
Calories burned during exercise (Cal/kcal)
The maximum (max) and average (avg) heart rate of the exercise session (bpm/%HRmax) alternate
For more facts and know-how to enhance your training, visit Polar Article Library. http://articles.polar.fi
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During Exercise 9

4. AFTER EXERCISE
Diary
In the Diary, you can compare achieved exercise duration, quantity and calories in different intensity
zones to your target values. Diary contains data for the current calendar week only, and records exercise
data only if the session lasts at least ten minutes.
To enter Diary, on Time display, press UP.
Diary
The three bars stand for exercise count (#), exercise time (Ø) and expended calories (c).
Press OK and UP/DOWN to examine more details.
Exe.Count / Exe.Time / Calories
Weekly target exercise count/duration/calories (The relevant bar is highlighted.)
The total exercise count/duration/expended calories you have achieved
Press BACK to return the Diary view. Press DOWN to enter the HR zones view.
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10 After Exercise