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Error in grade calculation maybe I found the cause

Maybe I understood why the 840 does not provide an accurate indication of the slope. Yesterday in the race it read the altitude correctly but "lagged behind" in the calculation of the slope so if on a 15% climb at the beginning it gave me 0% or even negative values, at a certain point it gave me 25-30% to "recover".

Moreover I noticed that at each LAP there was a delay in the summary page appearing and, finally, at the end of the race it did not have time to calculate the new FTP which had objectively increased.

After all this introduction I believe that the problem is the slowness in performing the calculations. I checked and I have no pending updates, the New files folder is empty and there is over 50% of free storage space. I thought about deleting the old activities.

Can I do something else or does Garmin have different solutions?

  • By definition the altitude/grade calculation lags, as it is based on travelled distance and gained/lost height, so it can only be after having travelled a certain distance and time. (Note that when stationairy there is no grade indication by that).

    The many erroneous numbers are not the result of this, but by a software bug already going on in more Edge series for some time.

  • What you wrote is correct but I had this problem with the altimetry with both the old Edge and the first 840 I owned but in all those cases it was the altimeter that read the altitude incorrectly.

    Now the altimeter works fine and I suppose it is a calculation error that is easier for Garmin to resolve.

    I wrote this post because maybe it could be useful to them.