Oh dear oh dear.
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 9:20 am
I have just purchased this Powerpod v3 and already I am thinking it has been a terrible mistake.
The software installation on a modern powerful Macbook is painful.
Tha Macbook software is dreadfully slow taking up to aminute to even respond to basic requests.
I'm informed that my (brand new) Powerpod is too old and I need to buy a 64bit key to use with Mac. On contacting support I get told it is manufactured in June this year, so get sent key. Meanwhile I have installed the software on a PC instead - it works much better on there.
Now onto calibration. Having jumped through the various "Use this guide, no use this one, here's a link to another one, these pictures look nothing like yours, don't worry. Ignore the bits about Aeropod" and finally find a graphical guide that looks something like it might work with my device.
So guidance "PowerPod v3 instructions" say:
4a and 4b Press hold for 4 seconds to power on in to link sensors mode. I paired the Wahoo speed and cadence sensors, and my Wahoo TickR hear rate monitor OK. Of course you don't know that at the time, you just have to hope for the best.
4c Says Click but it's not clear why I am clicking anything here.
Mine went from plashing green the momentary red, then on to solid yellow. I never clicked anything
5 Now click to pair to bike computer. That worked OK.
6 Click again? It's yellow. Is that before or after I click?
6a Somehow get it to flashing red/green.
6b Ride out. Watts start climbing and when I get to 50, I stop. Watts drops to 0. Hmmmmmm. But when I turn around and start riding back, they jump to 50 then 60 and keep rising until it gets to 100.
And now actual power is shown. Marvellous.
Get off bike, disconnect PowerPod and connect to my computer. It shows me a load of rides - probably from all the previous failed calibration attempts.
Load up the one labelled: velocomp_08-07_2020_1338_1_Miles_CalRide.ibr
That shows Average Watts 2996 with a maximum of 4000.
In short, I'm stumped about how to get this to work.
Yesterday I had to ride 13km and the calibration didn't finish.
Today I only had to do a few hundred metres, but it still doesn't seem to have worked.
The software installation on a modern powerful Macbook is painful.
Tha Macbook software is dreadfully slow taking up to aminute to even respond to basic requests.
I'm informed that my (brand new) Powerpod is too old and I need to buy a 64bit key to use with Mac. On contacting support I get told it is manufactured in June this year, so get sent key. Meanwhile I have installed the software on a PC instead - it works much better on there.
Now onto calibration. Having jumped through the various "Use this guide, no use this one, here's a link to another one, these pictures look nothing like yours, don't worry. Ignore the bits about Aeropod" and finally find a graphical guide that looks something like it might work with my device.
So guidance "PowerPod v3 instructions" say:
4a and 4b Press hold for 4 seconds to power on in to link sensors mode. I paired the Wahoo speed and cadence sensors, and my Wahoo TickR hear rate monitor OK. Of course you don't know that at the time, you just have to hope for the best.
4c Says Click but it's not clear why I am clicking anything here.
Mine went from plashing green the momentary red, then on to solid yellow. I never clicked anything
5 Now click to pair to bike computer. That worked OK.
6 Click again? It's yellow. Is that before or after I click?
6a Somehow get it to flashing red/green.
6b Ride out. Watts start climbing and when I get to 50, I stop. Watts drops to 0. Hmmmmmm. But when I turn around and start riding back, they jump to 50 then 60 and keep rising until it gets to 100.
And now actual power is shown. Marvellous.
Get off bike, disconnect PowerPod and connect to my computer. It shows me a load of rides - probably from all the previous failed calibration attempts.
Load up the one labelled: velocomp_08-07_2020_1338_1_Miles_CalRide.ibr
That shows Average Watts 2996 with a maximum of 4000.
In short, I'm stumped about how to get this to work.
Yesterday I had to ride 13km and the calibration didn't finish.
Today I only had to do a few hundred metres, but it still doesn't seem to have worked.