Why do I need to do a daily calibration ride?

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SilasGreenback
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Why do I need to do a daily calibration ride?

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Forgive me if I missed something with the new firmware but as the subject line says? Each day I come to my powerpod, wake the sensors and it settles on orange and I have to do a calibration. Here's what I've done:
Powerpod = V3 with a pitot tube. F/W 9.01

1) I resurrected my powerpod after several months of not using power.
2) Connected to ISAAC, cleared the profiles and set up everything as per "first time use". Ignored the "new firmware" prompts.
3) Did the calibration ride
4) connected to ISAAC again. Could see both sensor ID's, profile name, bike details etc and the wind scaling and so on.
5) Upgraded from F/W 9.00 to 9.01
6) lived my life.
7) 7am next day, wake everything up, connect everything and....orange for calibration. WTF??
8) Calibration ride. Then ride to work.
9) end of day, wake it all up. Settles as connected and ready to go. Cycle home.
10) plug into ISAAC to see what's going on and only a single profile. The one I set up yesterday. I factory reset then set my ISAAC profile as the active profile in position 1 on powerpod.
11) Back to bike to check, repeatedly turn on / off / on etc and all connects fine. Turn all off.
12) 7am next day, wake it all up and settles at orange for a calibration ride. W.T.F?? I say. This time sack it, powerpod stays on my bench.

If I connect to ISAAC I can see the single profile I have set up, I can send to the device and I can set it as active yet I seem to have to keep doing calibration rides. Despite there being scaling numbers in the profile.
V9 f/w and previous it all worked perfectly.
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Re: Why do I need to do a daily calibration ride?

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Hmm...the only thing I can think of is that your battery charge is low.

Connect PP to a charger and let it fully recharge (flashing red light until the light goes out).

Also, do a hard reset of your PP (press-hold for 12 seconds, then release).

As a check, connect PP to Isaac and go to Edit/Edit Profiles. Click "Get From Device". You should see your calibrated profile info (tilt shows ****) and your profile number.

Before you ride next day, do the same thing. There should be no change to your profile information.
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Re: Why do I need to do a daily calibration ride?

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I shall give it a try. I’d forgotten the hard reset! TBH it took me a while to remember the 5 clicks to turn off.

Interestingly, just got home from work, did the hard reset before anything else and it paired to my sensors no bother. :roll: :roll:

Tis charging and will check out the profiles via the pc.
Thanks
SilasGreenback
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Re: Why do I need to do a daily calibration ride?

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Hard reset - connected to sensors no issues.

Charged

Took it out to pair, woke sensors. Turned on powerpod. Pairs then goes to calibration orange light.

Connected to laptop, extracted profile and there’s my “extracted profile 1” with aero calcs but tilt is “empty”.

Am i better off just starting set up again?
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Re: Why do I need to do a daily calibration ride?

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SilasGreenback wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 1:50 pm Hard reset - connected to sensors no issues.

Charged

Took it out to pair, woke sensors. Turned on powerpod. Pairs then goes to calibration orange light.

Connected to laptop, extracted profile and there’s my “extracted profile 1” with aero calcs but tilt is “empty”.

Am i better off just starting set up again?
Hmm...your profile is empty

Do the following:

1) Open one of your previous ride files where your unit was calibrated.

2) Connect PP to Isaac

3) In Edit/Profiles, click on "Extract from Ride File".

4) Take a screen shot of the Advanced and Wireless ID screens and post here

5) Click "Send to Device". This will move your calibrated profile into your unit

6) Do a ride; things should be OK (green light, no need to do cal ride)

7) Download ride as usual then wait overnight

8) Next day, connect PP to Isaac, go to Edit/Edit Profiles, click on Extract from Device, and see if your calibrated profile is still there (it should be!)

Let me know what you find
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Re: Why do I need to do a daily calibration ride?

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Here’s a calibrated ride:
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SilasGreenback
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Re: Why do I need to do a daily calibration ride?

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Pairs fine. Just need a sleep next!
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Re: Why do I need to do a daily calibration ride?

Post by SilasGreenback »

I slept
Powerpod slept
Sensors slept

All woke up just fine :D

No idea why my profile broke but connected snd green for go this morning.

Thanks for the help.
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