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Hi, I did my first little test on the inddor trainer with my Powertap Pro today. Trying to figure out my ftp and I did a couple of sprints too just to see what sort of numbers came up. And I got some weird numbers in the middle of a stretch of warm up. In cyclingpeaks the graph shows the watts at around 300watts and the cadence at around 100 but the 5 second peak for the work out is 2047 watts. ...

Quote: Originally Posted by russelldb Hi, I did my first little test on the inddor trainer with my Powertap Pro today. Trying to figure out my ftp and I did a couple of sprints too just to see what sort of numbers came up. And I got some weird numbers in the middle of a stretch of warm up. In cyclingpeaks the graph shows the watts at around 300watts and the cadence at around 100 but the 5 ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Woofer It's easy to edit in cycling peaks 2.0, just select the 123 button and edit the power column numbers by hand. Right. From the graph page, click the button at the top with 123 on it to see the values for each point. Then scroll down to the offending points, click on the erroneous value, and type another number right over the top.

Quote: Originally Posted by russelldb but the 5 second peak for the work out is 2047 watts. Looking at the data table shows a 2 second peak of 3089 watts. If I coudl do that I would be world class track sprinter wouldn't I? Shame you didn't get a photo of the PT max watts reading for bragging rights I didn't think CP could handle power numbers greater than 2kW (2048?) anyway due to the wko ...

You may want to try to download such a ride one more time. The results may vary. I noticed that in order to get a valid file, the record import pause should always be multiple of 256. If not I end up with garbage data such as the one you describe. Watch for the TSS as well, sometimes it may be n/a. I don't think it's good. But after multiple downloads, I always get the ride. It's like there's ...

Hi, I did my first little test on the inddor trainer with my Powertap Pro today. Trying to figure out my ftp and I did a couple of sprints too just to see what sort of numbers came up. And I got some weird numbers in the middle of a stretch of warm up. In cyclingpeaks the graph shows the watts at around 300watts and the cadence at around 100 but the 5 second peak for the work out is 2047 watts...

Quote: Originally Posted by russelldb Hi, I did my first little test on the inddor trainer with my Powertap Pro today. Trying to figure out my ftp and I did a couple of sprints too just to see what sort of numbers came up. And I got some weird numbers in the middle of a stretch of warm up. In cyclingpeaks the graph shows the watts at around 300watts and ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Woofer It's easy to edit in cycling peaks 2.0, just select the 123 button and edit the power column numbers by hand. Right. From the graph page, click the button at the top with 123 on it to see the values for each point. Then scroll down to the offending points, click on the erroneous value, and type ...

Quote: Originally Posted by russelldb but the 5 second peak for the work out is 2047 watts. Looking at the data table shows a 2 second peak of 3089 watts. If I coudl do that I would be world class track sprinter wouldn't I? Shame you didn't get a photo of the PT max watts reading for bragging rights I didn't think CP could handle ...

You may want to try to download such a ride one more time. The results may vary. I noticed that in order to get a valid file, the record import pause should always be multiple of 256. If not I end up with garbage data such as the one you describe. Watch for the TSS as well, sometimes it may be n/a. I don't think it's good. But after multiple downloads, I always get the ride. It's like ...