Originally Posted by nikos
I purchased a new cateye astrayle? Heres the problem: when riding, everything looking good (also happens right out of the shoot) the readout drops to zero, as if there is no connection. So I sit there moving the unit in its base - finally it connects to the leads and the readout comes back on. The problem is the connection between the unit and the base its clicked into. Has anyone else had this problem, seems rather lame to have to adjust after every bump!
Are you sure its not the wheel sensor that is misreading. Sometimes if they are just at threshold level of closeness and you get over a certain speed it can stop reading. Mine has a couple of time just over 29mph, but comes back on below and always reads consistently below.
If you are certain its the base/head contact (sounds like you are) - are the contacts clean and all look the same (that is one is not a tiny bit lower, or not spring loaded)
Or you could have stressed where the wires come into the base unit - especially if they are or were pulled tight, so you have an intermitten connection which a bump and wiggling could affect. Check that too.
Otherwise since its new can you exchange it?
Al