I’m new to smart trainers and I’ve been I’ve been enjoying both TR and Zwift since I bought a KICKR (my first trainer) a couple of weeks ago. But curiosity got the better of me and I decided to compare the KICKR with my trusty power2max Type S and I found that it’s consistently reading high. For ex…

Sounds somewhat similar to the discussion in this thread: [image] KickrV5 - drift in ERG-mode? Equipment Hi Anyone having problems with KickrV5 drifting in ERG-mode? Here is two datasets from Kickr18 and KickrV5: Kickr18(4iiii): DC Rainmaker Analyzer KickrV5(4iiii) : D…

Your Zwift/sim-mode workout seems fine to me, 5W isnt that much. When I look at the TR workout, I see a couple of interesting things. Seems like PM and Kickr reads spot on between 4min and 8min (marked with yellow). It also seems like there maybe some power smoothing turned on in Wahoo app (marked …

Thanks for looking :slightly_smiling_face: Here’s today’s Ericsson session: DC Rainmaker Analyzer This one seems a bit better behaved; the difference is consistently around 6 W this time, which seems more reasonable (ignoring the ITL bit at the beginning). But the recoveries still look pretty wei…

I remembered that I also recorded last week’s ramp test on my ELEMNT as well: DC Rainmaker Analyzer At the top of the ramp the two power readings match almost exactly – within 1 W, which is pretty excellent. But at the start of the ramp I can see the same effect as with the recovery sections in th…

My Kickr readings is smoother than my PM readings, but I dont see any difference in smoothing during recoveries. This is my newest set, as usual my Kickr reads a bit high in the start, accuracy seems better during intervals(high power) than during recoveries: https://analyze.dcrainmaker.com/#/publi…

I’m also experiencing a strange issue. Brand new V5, up to date firmware. Last night’s threshold intervals, my stages Left side PM is consistently higher(I expected this and not surprised). For the most part they both track pretty well together, but at the start of the intervals it takes the power r…

My Kickr readings is smoother than my PM readings @daniebr Turn off power smoothing for the Kickr in the Wahoo app. It will look more normal after that, even in erg mode.

@Cory.Rood : You might have a similar pedaling pattern like me, Im allways pedaling harder on left side in the start of intervals, and it equalizes after a while, that would make a similar graph as yours if I used a single sided PM: https://analyze.dcrainmaker.com/#/public/05c9cff4-3529-4f34-5afb-7c…

Today’s Zwift ride in sim-mode: DC Rainmaker Analyzer This time I was using a brand-new NGeco power meter with 1% accuracy. Starts off bang-on, but by the end of the session the KICKR was reading 6 W lower. Not sure what to think now. I’ll try tomorrow’s ERG mode workout with the same power meter …

@daniebr Well, now it’s looking an awful lot like your drift problem: DC Rainmaker Analyzer Again, starts off fine, ends up with the KICKR reading 12 W low. Interestingly, it starts precisely at the start of the first recovery. I haven’t yet tried a factory spindown, but that’s my next step.

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KICKR V5 power discrepancies

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bbarrera February 9, 2021, 1:18am 2

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