Originally Posted by
patentcad
So I press and release both buttons for about a second or so... do NOT wait until CLR appears? That works for what I'm looking to do? Is that right? Is there any indication on the PT that I've cleared it for a new data session, or I just take it on faith? Do they mention this in the manual at all?
Thanks for the info by the way 92.
Good grief this **** is too complicated. But oddly fascinating in an annoying sort of way to a guy who always owned VCRs that blinked '12:00'. I have figured out how to work the Tivo however. I have to say this Power Tap gizmo friggin ROCKS. I'm also not quite as wimpy as I thought; I'm sure my average wattage during these approx. 10 min. hillclimb intervals had to be 300+ watts. But I would like to KNOW what it was.
You can't get it to break intervals out into separate files, so in that sense, no it doesn't do what you want. It sounds like that may not actually be what you want, because it will, however, create zones in your ride file for your intervals. PowerAgent will display these for you, and you can browse the numbers for just the intervals if you like. These are where you hit both buttons just for a click, as described above, to mark the next interval (once at the start, once at the end).
It's more accurate to go into the file after the ride and clear out the intervals, then drag over them and create new intervals (in PowerAgent or WKO+). This way you're not including the 1/2 pedal strokes at the front and back of the interval when you didn't have a hand on a hood.
Your 10-minute hill repeats should be very easy to identify in your power file without intervals on the head unit. Drag over them, save the interval in PowerAgent, and you're done.
It would be nice though, if you could put a "file break" in a ride file during a ride though. That way you could look at race charts without warmup and cooldown data in there (I'm not talking about the main graph view, but the distributions and such).