Garmin Fenix 5X Heart Rate Monitor Not Working

This watch has some many useful function including calling for help if you fall, heart rate monitor and other health app. I feel like Dick Tracy when I speak into my watch using the intercom or answering a phone call.

Great little satellite communicator. Long battery life. Connects with several other Garmin products like the Fenix watch. Works great with an iPhone. Mapping apps are pretty dated as for planning routes but there's some good third-party options.

Great that he can monitor his heart for afib and take an EKG whenever he wants.

This is the third Apple watch I've owned. It seems that this watch works a little faster than the others. I use it as much for health issues. The Heart Rate monitor picks up the same as my belt. This is an improvement over the past watches. The Blood O2 is good, particularly now with Covid as lung function is an indication of the virus. All in all it's a worthwhile purchase.

This watch is absolutely perfect for my husband and I. We aren't sports fanatics but need to keep track of heart rate. We walk, ride bicycle, and treadmill. This watch tracks it all. Best of all, we only have to charge once every 3-4 weeks. Just wish I could get another one in the white rock color.

I use my Fenix headlamp every day... walking the dog, working on my vehicles, doing detail work where my eyes now fail me... Then our new puppy decided to munch the headband. Granted, I could still use it because of the great clip they have for it but being able to just pick up a fresh band was great. Plus, with all that I put it through, I probably should've replaced the old one anyway!

One of the only 5x you can find.

Good to have an extra pair. While one pair is in the charger I have a working flash light (Fenix LR35R). I am a little new to this particular battery type, I've been using 18650s in other Fenix lights and battery banks with narry a problem. Fenix lights put out lumens and well lit up road signs in pitch blackness (at midnight) from the far side of the road in Yellowstone.

I didn't expect it to be this good with all the negativity I read about extension tubes, and even here. Used this with Laowa 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5x macro lens and it fits perfectly! Maybe some others that complain are probably using other heavy lenses. So my magnification has went from max 5x to 6.96x using all the tubes combined (49mm) with around 1-2 of working space between the lens and the subject! I need that magnification for biting midges which are 1-3mm in size, and the can fill 25-75% of the frame! I extremely recommend them, but check the working distance of your lenses. Down below the setup after the tubes (holding the upper grip with one hand), a cropped 4K video frame (4K@120fps, 1/250s, f/11, ISO 6400) of the biting midge before the tubes, and the setup before the tubes! I should make a better one next!

Perfect fit for my Fenix.