Originally Posted by
tetonrider
do you have any smoothing set up in the software?
i use 3 crank revolutions. even if you use 1 crank rev, there is some smoothing.
not an issue as you have a wired unit (what recording rate do you use? 1Hz?), but the ANT+ protocol is 1 sample per second, and because of that you can get some funky stuff going on for 1" samples, esp for a fractional pedal stroke at high cadence. you can catch the data sampling at a weird time.
peak 1" power shouldn't be relied upon for much of anything. it's rarely a real number.
No smoothing (I use GC to read data).
I understand that peak is pretty much never what's displayed, just pointing out that peak and display rarely coincide.
To me peak power seems to make sense, it's in the general area based on what I'm expecting. "General area" means about a 200-300w range.
I read somewhere that the SRM reads a gazillion times a second so peak power may not be real, but 1s power (that isn't peak, right?) should be an average of 1s worth of readings? I dunno, I think I put it all down when I see 1200+w peak and I think I could have done better if I see 900w peak.