AeroPod, PowerPod and Newton

Travis, I see the Analise Dynamic Cda is gone missing from the Analyze menu. I miss that already! I use it with my road bike which has Profile Design aero bars (set wide for comfort and control). On my rides, I switch from bars to hoods or higher at about 14 mph (23 kh actually) and have used that ...

Nothing is in metric. If you look at the iBike file you will see it shows 116 ft at start. The Newton shows everything in ft/miles/F. I had thought I could verify elevation correctly set using Enviro or returning to Setup-Elevation but this was a clear failure on this ride. And I was so pleased that...

Today I had the Newton outside for 10 minutes before riding - mid-40's F and a windy day. I went to Setup to set Elevation. Prior to setup it was 117 ft, and I set it to 335 ft which is the known elevation for the start. Since I have had a set Elevation failure in the past, I always now check the El...

I find myself doing a TiltCal after firmware upgrades because that is the only way to get Setup to easily be closest to the set Elevation screen. Without having to do WindCal using the Newton, it is frustrating to always have to go Wind-Tilt-CalRide-Battery-Elevation to set initial elevation. How ab...

Today I set the Elevation on my Newton to its usual known start elevation. However for some reason that elevation was ignored and the Newton's wrong initial elevation was retained. I did an Out&Back and decided to perform an Analysis CalCheck on the ride. If I use the wrong elevation (which equa...

...Edit to add: Velocomp, I would like to patch Izaac so that if O&B is unchecked in the analyze ride panel, then remove the annotations that seem to persist. Yes, the Out&Back annotations are far too persistant. Realistically, if you are going to the trouble to do a calibration check (or a...

Currently Isaac uses Elevation to determine Out & Back sections for Calibration Check. For a pure Out & Back activity this works well. I.e. Midpoint exactly 1/2 way. Often I find that a mid-point is not the "pure" turn-around. There may be a many mile (e.g. >10 miles) Out and then ...

Device -> Setup -> Set Odometer then send zero to the iBike

Further investigation reveals that the Universal Mount for the Newton+ failed with cracks to both lower rear clamp sections of the mount. I thought I had been careful on installation in June not to overtighten. But maybe not, or it may be that riding in high summer heat overstressed the plastic. I w...

First time I have seen this, a High Vibration grey zone on the Tilt Advanced View. I have been told previously that this view is to be ignored, (although the Isaac negative elevation in that Tilt Advanced View was unexplained) , but I still find it interesting. On today's ride I found a grey zone de...

KenS wrote:Isn't that just an error on the starting elevation?

No, initial elevation set at ride start to reference elevation. The other elevation charts show elevation correctly, only Tilt Advanced View is wrong.
Try download of the ibr and see for yourself.

The question is if there is a bug in the chart display resulting in the totally negative elevation traces in the charts.
Question was not about the power calculation or dance locations.

Usually the correction in elevation matches "reality" in the Tilt Advanced View. For today's ride, the entire elevation in the Tilt Advanced View is shifted negative in the image above. A more normal Tilt Advanced View shows corrected tilt with normal elevation like below: http://i48.tinyp...

Often when I do the Analyze Tilt and Power Advanced View, the Before Repair shows a lot of drift from zero. Especially after significant climbs and descents. Today's ride is exceptional for odd repair, both before and after. For several minutes on this ride we were near sea level, which recorded as ...

1) Added “Battery Percentage” (Batt %) screen in Totals (left button). This screen shows how much battery life remains in your Newton. Also, while displaying this screen, if you click the center button, the unit will turn off immediately. I just did the update to Firmware 6.03 as prompted by Isaac....

I find my Newton+ discharges from 100% overnight to 96%, then a 4+ hour ride and I find 93%. Several hours later, I hook to usb for upload and charge returns to 100% under 15 minutes. Some Lion devices may need their battery monitoring software reset as a normal course. This generally is done by dis...

I'm not sure what you are requesting. Are you suggesting that the odometer shouldn't advance until the next full mile is registered? For example, at present, if at mile 25.40, the odometer will read 25.4 miles, and the odometer advances to 25.5 miles when measured distance is 24.51 miles. Are you p...

Any thought to changing the rounding display algorithm for distance? Currently I find the distance error/uncertainity of +/- 0.05 miles to be such that I can't use the iBike with a route sheet. I would much prefer a display which truncated the distance to at least actual traveled rather than roundin...

Today, I connected the Newton+ to usb on my pc (Win7/64 Home) and pressed the center button to turn on. I started Isacc and the Newton showed "SPCD Fail", otherwise no problems. When I Exited Isacc, the Newton cleared SPCD FAIL and reverted to a normal ON screen. I could repeat this.

It seems to me that the Newton Handlebar Mount (which I got with my trade-in) is not properly described during Newton Setup. Yes, it is mounted on the Handlebars ... But it clamps on both sides at the stem and places the Newton over the stem. So during setup should it be called Stem mounted based on...

Is the Edge 500 calibration necessary; and if it is what do I have to do to get the Newton+ and the Edge to complete the calibration sequence? The Calibration using the Edge is for when you have a PM withOUT a head unit. I.e. you are using the Edge as a head unit. Perforce with the Newton you will ...

In order to set the iBike (Newton not arrived yet so my iAero Gen III) clock with Isaac, you must use the Download->Download window.
Please return the clock set option to the Device Menu.

The Garmin gsc-10 combined speed/cadence sensor can be modified to separate and extend the two component sensors.
A nice discussion with photos is at http://turtleaws3.blogspot.com/2010/05/ ... ensor.html

It went a while without a Data Setup fault and then happened again. I removed the cover and battery, and touched the contacts to see how springy they were. The positive contact clip (one on the side) came totally loose from its solder connection! I had to fish it out gently. I contacted Velocomp Tec...

I am getting occasional "Data Setup" resets of my Gen III iAero. This will happen most often when I have finished an iBike computer session where I use the iBike software to Erase Data from the iAero. I will detach the adapter from the usb port. Then twist the iAero to detach it from the a...

Will the ibr format or toolkit be made available to outside developers?

I am finding two issues with 6.1.0: When merging with a .fit, sometimes the gps coordinates are invalid and 6.1.0 will Export the coordinates as NaN (for any output format: csv, tcx, gpx). This may be a failure of the device recording the .fit (Garmin Edge 500 v.260), however a NaN will result in co...

Any progress on support for Garmin .fit merge in iBike 5?

Since Garmin has moved to its .fit binary format for Edge 500/800 FR310xt, will the iBike software be supporting Merge with .fit ride files for gpx?

Some power meters (e.g. Powertap) will transmit speed and cadence to Garmin ANT+ receivers (Edge 705/500). Will the iBike transmit speed/cadence with its power info? Specifically I have a Garmin GSC-10, but I have had speed dropout problems with my Edge 500 which do not appear in the iBike data. See...