Chris Hobson
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
A little under two years ago I bought a Tomtom GPS Multisport watch to help monitor my triathlon training. It covers running, cycling, swimming and treadmill training and I have found it to be really useful. After you have done your training you plug it into your computer and it automatically logs onto your personal account on the Tomtom website and records your distance, time and various stats and even gives you a little map of where you went. After I had had it for just over a year it died. I had become so dependent on it that I bought another one straight away. Getting my kit out of the locker at the gym the other day, I dragged the watch out and it fell on the tiled floor and broke the glass. It still worked but I couldn't use it for swimming in case it got water in it. Having drawn a blank on getting a new glass on the internet, I had resigned myself to going back to counting lengths at the swimming pool until I could afford to replace it. I then remembered that I still had the old one so I set about taking it apart to see if I could use the screen from that one. It turned out to be a fairly simple repair, the watch is held together by six tiny torx screws. once these are removed the front and rear halves of the watch can be separated. The little circuit board is held in with two more torx screws and this can be removed and transferred into the other case. The battery is in the rear half of the case and didn't need to be disturbed. I tried it out and everything worked but after I had been swimming the control button stopped working. Upon inspection it turned out that a tiny bit of moisture had worked its way inside. I dried it out with the corner of a piece of kitchen towel and tried again, this time applying some silicone grease to the seal. I've been for another swim this morning and everything appears to be working so I'm cautiously optimistic. It has occurred to me that the old one died after I had been swimming and that water getting in may have been the problem. If so, I might have been able to revive it by taking it apart, drying it out and re-sealing it with silicone grease.