KickrV5 - drift in ERG-mode?

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Yeah - I think I’d be questioning if it is kickr or my quarq reading the power. I have enough glitches setting things up that I get trust issues. I can easily tell now by running TR and zwift in parallel and just having zwift read the kickr.

I haven’t really had any issues at all with power match, other than observing drift on some occasions. That gets a little annoying for times I can’t read my quarq at both zwift and TR, but I don’t care that much about how fast I am in zwift to lose a little bit of my power there from what it could be.

So mainly just a curiosity thing more than anything else for me.

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I was one of the main complainers at the start or this thread regarding drift but for whatever reason I no longer get it.

We did pretty much conclusively prove that, for us at least, the drift had nothing to do with erg mode or auto-calibration.

I had it on Zwift in SIM mode too regardless of how much coasting I did.

This is separate from the standard “calibrate after 10min” - it’s normal to have to trigger an autocal after a bit of warm up I think.

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If you run the pm via the powerlink of the wahoo, it will also use cadence. When my battery died, first cadence was lost on the tr app, a minute later power did not show. The Kickr will not switch back to it’s own power estimation when the pm is failing for whatever reason. So you will know if it works or not.

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I have checked and used several different setups to check and compare tr powermatch with the wahoo link. As far as I can tell, the wahoo seems to be a bit off at times, which is probably due to the auto calibration of the Kickr V5. TR Powermatch seems to be the more stable option when using a powermeter then the wahoo powermeter link. Although both work, I will be using tr powermatch.

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Better than🤭