I have the Powertap Pro which I have only been using in recent times (purchased Jun05).
a) I've found that when I download into Powerlink lite the dates are always wrong. For some reason it always seems to come up with a date in 2003 and you have to manually go to the csv file and rename it. Is there a setting somewhere that can be made to 'reset' any internal clock?
b) Aren't the units meant to split up rides if it's been off for a certain period of time? I can't recall offhand but it was either a ride into and a ride home from work that got merged into one, or a ride home and the next morning that were merged. Possibly this could be related to a) if there's an internal clock issue. I was under the impression that the unit could distinguish that it had been stopped sufficiently long enough to break it into another separate file (although I get the strange feeling this also happened with the Garmin 301 and maybe I am getting confused!)
c) Oh and if you're doing intervals, if you had the wattage set on 'avg' watts does this readout actually show the current average for the interval you are doing or does it show the ongoing overall ride average? For example if you wanted to average X Watts for a lap and you're close to the end you could see if you need to pick it up a bit to hit that average.
Thanks in advance for answers to any of these.
Mike
a) I've found that when I download into Powerlink lite the dates are always wrong. For some reason it always seems to come up with a date in 2003 and you have to manually go to the csv file and rename it. Is there a setting somewhere that can be made to 'reset' any internal clock?
b) Aren't the units meant to split up rides if it's been off for a certain period of time? I can't recall offhand but it was either a ride into and a ride home from work that got merged into one, or a ride home and the next morning that were merged. Possibly this could be related to a) if there's an internal clock issue. I was under the impression that the unit could distinguish that it had been stopped sufficiently long enough to break it into another separate file (although I get the strange feeling this also happened with the Garmin 301 and maybe I am getting confused!)
c) Oh and if you're doing intervals, if you had the wattage set on 'avg' watts does this readout actually show the current average for the interval you are doing or does it show the ongoing overall ride average? For example if you wanted to average X Watts for a lap and you're close to the end you could see if you need to pick it up a bit to hit that average.
Thanks in advance for answers to any of these.
Mike