Rotor Inspider issue

Hi, I have a new Rotor Inspider power meter. It seems to pair ok with the Edge 530 and calibrate correctly, but then when I am riding it reads zero on the head unit, so it is not recording power etc. Anyone have any ideas?

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StaffanFernquist 4 months ago in reply to StaffanFernquist +1

I returned the Rotor Inspider to the dealer. They tried to sort the problem, but mission impossible. Got the refund, and will go for a Power2Max sprider instead.

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0 Niels T C over 1 year ago

I have the same issue with my Edge 1040 solar. The powermeter display the correct power when I connect it to the Rotor app via bluetooth, but reads zero on my Garmin.

0 Mattmckay66 11 months ago in reply to Niels T C

Have you sorted out your problem. I have the same thing happening with my 520 unit. The closer the unit is to PM the better it is

0 StaffanFernquist 10 months ago

Same problem here with my 1040 solar. The Inspider and 1040 is Connecticuts, but No power is shown.

0 JRB-IMan 9 months ago

Did any one get a response on these queries? i have the same issue with rotor inspider calibration is ok but no power reading on garmin

0 JRB-IMan 9 months ago

Did you get this sorted out ? I have the same issue ?

0 2694616 5 months ago

Same issue here, any solutions?

0 olivierbally 4 months ago

Hi, Have you tried to update the INspider ? There is now an easy feature with Rotor App released early December: you can update powermeters from the App. Otherwise, this issue should be solved by returning the Inspider to the distributor.

0 Luko79 4 months ago in reply to olivierbally

and will it measure the power already accurate with this update? :) (all is high as f...) The Rotor can build good cranks, but avoid their pmeters...

0 olivierbally 4 months ago in reply to Luko79

How far from the true power are you from ? (let's say VS a SRM) .

According to my experience with Inspider, this product should provide accurate data on the long term, even with a low number of calibrations.

What I have noticed is that I can get a 1-3% accuracy with this product, but it seems there are sometimes products that don't get close to these figures.

Previously I had a 2INpower 1st generation and data used to be a little bit generous in sprint.

There is also one interesting way to identify a problem: when data are note accurate, the OCA data are often wrong. And for Rotor riders it's easy to identify.

The process is: calibrate-update firmware and if the update is not leading to accurate data, powermeter must be inspected by distributor in the country.

0 Luko79 4 months ago in reply to olivierbally

apprx 5% higher as a reference value (the SRM is far from the reference in 2023/2024...) , and not so consistent so the difference is moving up and down strongly. the 2InPower a lot better, but the 1st gen (early models) is high too (the worst is the single-sided InPower), i dont know what is the actual situation the latest produced one (if it is still produced or not...)

If somebody needs reliable spider-based powermeter, then Power2Max NG ->NGEco->AXS (and there are a few chinese one), it is the order (by accuracy and by recommandation).

since 10 years a good spider-based powermeter DOESNT need manual-calibration because has auto solution .

i know that a firmware upgrade cant solve it, i tried to joking :D