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FW14.20: Dangerous behavior when controlling indoor

Did a Garmin Trainings Plan workout with the Edge 1040 controlling my Tacx Neo 2T (FW036): Loaded the workout and followed a course.

Every lap the pedaling resistant dropped to zero when a new lap starts! I nearly went over the bar - this drop of resistant is insane!

But it seems to be one issue which Garmin will not solve before one has an serious accident...

https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/cycling/f/edge-530/213914/indoor-workouts-with-trainer-resistance-control?pifragment-1290=3#pifragment-1290=1

(I followed this course several time without an workout - I had never a drop of resistant!)

Course:

Workout:

0 aweatherall over 1 year ago

Are you able to post the workout file?

0 mutnig over 1 year ago in reply to aweatherall

added the training plan file, course and the activity (no fit allowed...)dangerous_beahvior.zip

0 aweatherall over 1 year ago in reply to mutnig

Thanks. I will take a look

0 mutnig over 1 year ago in reply to aweatherall

Hi, did you find time to check?

0 aweatherall over 1 year ago in reply to mutnig

Let me have look this evening

0 mutnig over 1 year ago in reply to aweatherall

did you find time for an indoor ride?

0 aweatherall over 1 year ago in reply to mutnig

You are correct that when using zone 1 the Edge drops the resistance on the trainer to a very low value.

The only way I can think of avoiding this is to modify the steps in the workout that currently use zone 1 to use a custom range instead.

0 mutnig over 1 year ago in reply to aweatherall

Dear aweatherall, it is not only in zone 1.

I just did a indoor workout, same setting: Edge 1040 Solar FW14.50 controlls Tacs Neo 2T: Workout and follow a course.

This Time the workout starts with Zone 2, Zone 3, Zone 4 .....

This time I went up the other side of the mountain.

Workout, course and activity are attached.

At every change of a Zone - no matter of Zone 1 is involved or not - the resistant drops significantly!

You can recognize it on the cadence spices shortly after the change of the zone.

dangerous_2.zip

0 Cedricg_38 over 1 year ago in reply to mutnig

Problem identical with Garmin Edge 530

HT workouts are unusable with Gramin edges, resistance drops at each change of zone.

0 aweatherall over 1 year ago in reply to Cedricg_38

The resistance should drop to mid point of the zone you changed to. So you will get a drop. I guess the question is whether it should transition instead of just jumping.

For example

if zone 3 where 250 to 350 watts and zone 2 were 150 to 250 then going from zone 3 to zone 2 the power would change from 300 to 200 .