Cycling dynamics, L/R balance and Seated/standing data incorrect on SW v3.15

It looks like the right side somehow did not enable the cycling dynamics settings for this ride, which would prevent the reporting of PCO, power phase, and seated/standing. Overall power and balance would not be affected. I'm seeing the balance go 100% right or left in places where you momentarily interrupted your pedaling. In those cases you can end up with 100% one way or the other because your forward leg will register a significant positive torque while your rearward leg will register a negative torque.

Everything else in the data looked pretty good. We'll look into the cycling dynamics setting issue.

ahhh, that totally makes sense on the 100% left or right reading. Thinking back, I do tend to stop more with my left leg down when taking a quick stretch or break. I must be unconsciously pulling up with the other leg at the same time i'm doing that. It's weird that the dynamics did not get enabled on just the right pedal, I wonder if it is a function of it being a triathlon and powering the pedals up in the middle of the activity. I don't think I got a calibration or setting message on my FR 935 when the vectors powered on and connected(nor would I want one in the middle of a Multisport activity). I did connect and calibrate them when I was getting set up in transition.

I have never seen this behavior before on either trainer or outdoor rides, so the only new thing i can think of would be the event type.

From a purely functional perspective it had absolutely zero effect on my race. The only things I'm looking at during a race is power and cadence, both of which functioned perfectly. The pedals connected immediately when I started pedaling and I had no errors during the event. I didn't notice anything weird until I went back and looked at the data afterwards.

I've seen all the problems other people have been having, but really I can't complain. The pedals have functioned great for me overall and this is the first real problem I've had. This issue happened while testing out a Beta software version and was a pretty minor issue at that. I was just curious if anyone else has seen this or if it was maybe just a weird fluke with my particular setup and circumstances.

Thankfully Garmin has a great development team that is willing to look at an individual activity file and provide real world analysis and responses the same day that someone poses a question or has a problem. Not the kind of service I've seen or gotten from very many other companies.

I might try doing a Run-Bike-Run later this week and see if I can duplicate the issue. I've got several Indoor and Outdoor only bike activities that don't have this behavior, so maybe it is a multisport issue or a triathlon app specific issue.

Yesterday I received new pedals from the Garmin SAT and I tried it for 30 minutes indoor with the same problem. Firmware is 3.0. Today I will install version 3.15 to see how it works.

I have updated to version 3.15 and yesterday I went out to ride. 5 minutes after, I lost the PCO , etc, in right pedal. During the ride, manually I disabled the parameters and enabled again and it worked for a while. Another important thing is that I see an important imbalance. In the first pedals my left leg was the dominant one. With the new ones, it is the right leg but 46/54 seems too much to me. Tomorrow I will try the new firmware to see how it works.

Interesting. I am also seeing the L/R imbalance of almost exactly 46/54 to the right. It did not seem right to me either, but I have nothing to compare against. I might need to get a weight and see if the left and right pedal give the same torque measurement with the same weight after a calibration.