Originally Posted by
scheibo
yeah, i dont get spikes very often but usually its really obvious like 1.5x my max power when i wasn't even attempting to sprint.
975W is about 10% higher than i've hit before which makes me suspicious, but it was during an attempted sprint and don't try to sprint very often so its a gray area.
it seems like 5s power is more useful to track, but 'because big numbers' (relative) its still fun to see 1s power.
1" power is not terribly meaningful because it can be based on a fraction of a revolution. i wouldn't pay too much attention to it. (even 5" numbers can be artificially inflated depending on which head unit you are using and how they handle when a user abruptly stops pedaling. some of them repeat the last-received value 3x, which is a big deal in a 5" span.
in the past week i've had 3 people talk to me about how their accelerometer-based meters are exhibiting some 1" anomalies--power when they are coasting but hit a bump, that sort of thing. happens less when a magnet is on the bike.