I’ve been scratching my head using my Stages. Power seemed way low. Up until now I only had a Tacx Vortex trainer to use as a power meter. I can accept that the Tacx isn’t the most accurate power meter. Riding side by side with a friend who has a Stages we were calling out power numbers. I was consi…

This was the Stages versus the Tacx. As you can see, a solid 50 watts off at 325 watts. The interesting thing with this chart is that they drifted farther apart towards the end of the test. At 200 watts the stages was within 10 watts at the beginning and then was 25 watts off at the end. [Stages_v…

Second test was Tacx vs Stages vs Powertap hub. Stages vs Tacx is still 44 watts off at 330 watts. This one also seems to show the gap widening between the beginning of the test and the end of the test. At the beginning, it’s 295 watts vs. 285. At the end, Tacx 225 watts vs 197 Stages (28 watt diffe…

Here is my third test. Before this test I did the factory reset on the Stages power meter. Now the tables have turned on the Powertap hub. The Stages wattage is up and beats the Powertap at almost every wattage. My Tacx is still way high - especially at higher wattages. At least I have two other po…

I used Golden Cheetah to read the power files and then copied the data into Excel to make charts. It’s a big of a hack and took me some time to figure out and I’m already pretty good with Excel. Dcrainmaker’s tool for $30/year is probably worth it if one was going to do this a lot. Zwift supposedly …

iamholland: ZwiftPower Related guide: [image] How To Use ZwiftPower’s Dual Recording Power Analysis Tool Compare two power sources with this free and easy tool.

Here’s a question for people that know Stages power meters. Why would the factory hard reset make such a difference? It just seems strange that having the battery out would not be enough but shorting the terminals would provide some level of magic. My Stages is a Campagnolo gen 2. One thing that oc…

This may be a “if you have to ask, then don’t do it” type of question: What did you do to short the terminals? I’ve been thinking of wrapping electrical tape around the battery compartment to help keep the contact stronger, but maybe I should try this first.

I’m not sure turning it around will do it. Here is the way Stages supported suggested I do it (shorting those inner terminals with the edge of the coin battery): [battery reset.ex]

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firemunki June 18, 2020, 3:35pm 3

How did you capture the two power graphs, please?

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