Everything looked good during cycling, except for occasional sensor drop outs (going to test with different placements of the watch). Not a huge deal, since the sensors reconnects right away.
But when saving the activity I noticed some strange average and max power values.
The data recording showed several issues.
1st test - 10 min with F5+ ;
- 3 spikes up to 56 000 watts within the first 10 min (first at 97 sec)
- over 5 power drops (to half power)
- 1 sec Power spikes (random times in the first 10min and then every 60 seconds)
- 2 sec Power drop (to exactly half value) every 65 seconds
I borrowed a friends F5X on the same spinning bike and experienced no power spikes or half-value drops (but a few sensor drop-outs here as well). This makes me think the problem is not with the spinning bike but with the F5+.
I’m on the 5.58 Beta Firmware, so I’m going to try to roll back to 5.10 and see if that corrects the problem.
PS!
This has now given me a very high FTP, w/kg, and possibly too high cycling VO2max.
How to reset these values to null/blank so that these power anomalies do not affect any future training setup or estimates of performance stats? Or they will just be overwritten when a new estimate of FTP and vo2max is done. ciq.forums.garmin.com/.../1428960.jpg ciq.forums.garmin.com/.../1428961.jpg