AeroPod, PowerPod and Newton

John Hamann, CEO of Velocomp, says “PowerPod BLE/ANT+ maintains the accuracy, simplicity, portability and affordability of the original PowerPod power meter. And now, if you have a BLE-enabled iOS or Android smartphone, or BLE fitness wearable, you’ll be able to use power data on your device, using ...

Hi, I dont have a way how to test it as I have only the ANT+ version of the PowerPod, but I think it will work - Strava on your phone will work as a head unit instead of garmin etc.. So you can use, strava, wahoo fitness, ismoothrun app on the iphone and PP will just connects there via bluetooth.

If anyone will read it later or for a future reference - I will change the Crr value in the profile for 0,007, which gave it Riding tilt of -0,7 % and Friction of 11,276.

I will give it a try, but seems more precise than the previous Crr of 0,0170.

And yes, that part with a lot of braking etc. Is that I was just playing around, doing some wheelies and Sagan stuff so I think it is because of that. PP is tight as possible as on the photo below:-))

So you mean I should not change the Crr for 0,006 and keep it like it is?

Ok, I think it will be the CRR - rolling resistance setup. Original crr setup was = 0,01701. And what I have find on the internets should be for my tire = 0.00624. When I tried to put this into the Tweak CdA, Crr & Cm in Isaac, then it gave me more reasonable Avrg. watts.. but I dont know, I am ...

Hi John, finally we had some decent weather to repeat the calride. I did as you suggested, it was not so windy and I did go faster than last time. However after it calibrated itself, I still think that the wattage numbers were too high as I know how should my HR and feeling be when I pedal 250w or 3...

Hi John, Thank you for your answer, yes indeed it was (again) very windy outside. I thought it might be problematic, but I tried it anyway with the cal ride. Ok, I will do another calride soon and hopefully will be better. I will post it soon. Should I change something in the profile setup ( wheels,...

Or.. in best case, I would like to learn the Isaac magic you are doing, too. Is there any way I can learn more about all the things you are checking? So I can also review my rides alone and not steal your time for that. Would be great to learn. Let me know, thanks John.

Hi there:) So far I tried few rides with the Powerpod on the roadbike and it seems pretty fine so far (thank you for checking the calibration). Now I finally received the sensors for the MTB (speed & cadence) and I tried to set up the new profile for the mountain bike. I was a little tricky as t...

Hi John, any news about the mystery news you mentioned above? I wanted to ask about an iOs app too, but I have only the Ant+ version of the powerpod. Would be cool to have Isaac app on the iPad.

Yes indeed, starting km 50 or so it started to be really crazy:-) Thanks for the quick analysis, it felt as a hard ride, but still I was not sure that the watts shall be so high.
Thanks, Petr

Hi John, so I tried to do a first longer ride with PowerPod in a windy weather and i was quite surprised that the wattage is pretty high... I would say at least.. avrg. 196 and Normalized some 245. Can you please be so kind and check if there is everything fine with my setup after the O&B ride, ...

Hi, glad to hear that, so I will continue to use it and be happy. I just wanted to share with others, maybe somebody will use it. I will inform later about the magnetless sensor for MTB. Cheers

Hi John, cool, yes they work ok with Garmin and other apps which I am using. Let me know, what you will say after the testing :) btw. there is also reasonably priced magnetless sensor available - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/MAGENE-gemini200-Speed-Sensor-cadence-ant-Bluetooth-for-Strava-garmin-br...

Hi, I tried to find it in previous topics, but I could not find anything. Do you have somewhere any recommended sensors, which are the best with PowerPod? I thought that it doesnt matter and anything will work ok, but then I saw that Garmin GSC-10 sensor is not working perfectly.. so I just want to ...

Hi John, Kudos for checking on it so fast. Thank you & I will go to study other topics in here:)

Hi, I am new to PowerPod, just recently started to use, did the calibration ride and now updated the firmware and did the O&B ride. I have two questions: 1. Can you please check if there is everything ok in my setup? The file with the O&B calibration ride are attached.. 2. I tried to put the...