Instinct Cycling Cadence

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Hi I have an Instinct which I pair with a Garmin Cadence 2 sensor. 
 
 And I noticed that there are weird readings on the activity. Those strange triangular sections are captured. I assumed it was the garmin cadence sensor and swapped to 2 other brands of sensors. And they all create these weird "triangular" anomalies. 
 I run a Garmin Speed 2, Garmin HR and a Garmin Cadence 2 on my bicycle rides.

sspanak · Accepted Answer

This is more of a problem when visualizing the data, not with the sensor or with the watch. I do see "triangles" occasionally, but they are usually in the mobile app. If you open the same activity in the Connect website, they will not be there. Same if you export the activity and upload it to another sport tracking platform. 
 What probably happens is: the cadence sensor wakes up and starts counting revolutions, but it takes more time to reconnect with the watch. At the time when it happens, the watch has to record a non-zero value, while, on contrast, when you start pedaling with everything on, there will be zero RPM point, then a gradual increase. In this case, there would still be such a long line, but it would be horizontal and connecting two consecutive zeros. But when there is such a sudden jump in the values, the mobile app does not know how to interpret it and it connects the last known point (which was zero) and the new one (which is much higher) as usual, which causes a triangle to appear.

Instinct Cycling Cadence

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