But you asked how to fix it and you’re saying you are not using the number one feature to avoid ever having had this problem to begin with.
You have 3 sets of (nearly) identical pedals from the same brand and a random trainer. This is exactly the situation for power match.
Who cares what the trainer says. Use the pedals that you use outside as the power source, that’s the solution. Not wahoo support or any other support. Use power match, both TR and zwift have it. Even if the trainer was closer this would still be the better setup.
Why would I do that, when I know the peddles are accurate? When you spend almost $1000usd on a trainer, I would expect it to be accurate. I would then need to turn down the power of the rest of my peddles (I have three sets of Favero peddles, on three different bikes).
Wouldn’t throttling down the power of the peddles to match the trainer throw off my real world training…
Ok, I’m late to the party here, but one minor thing, is that it looks like your KICKR has ‘ERG Mode Smoothing” turned on, which is why those lines from the KICKR look perfectly straight/flat. It’s simply writing/publishing the value it’s being told to, not the actual power value. This is called the ‘Set point’, in other words, the wattage it’s being told by TR/etc to ‘set’.
In most cases, those two are pretty close, but there can be cases (perhaps even yours) where the set point is significantly different than the actual point. An example being if you’re in the big ring on your bike, that can cause the flywheel speed to be unpredcitable, and the two won’t always align. Point being, while it’s likely that something is amiss up there, Wahoo will almost certainly tell you to turn off that setting and test again.
You can turn off power smoothing via the Wahoo app.
(Sorry! But, shoot me a note via e-mail, just my first name at domain name, and I’ll extend your Analyzer sub to cover it)
Yeah, I’ve had many conversations with them about this over the years. Their answer is basically that “people like smoothed data”.
And the thing is, I could get behind a 3s/5s/10-second smoothing of ERG mode data, but just smooth the *actual data*, not the prescribed set-point value. Because in some case (such as high flywheel), the athlete may very well actually be doing the correct power (along with the trainer), but having the set point broadcast instead, implies the athlete is missing the targets entirely.
