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5 days into my free trial of Fulgaz which I've used to do a couple of mountain climbs, however my setup has an annoying bug where it seems to stop sending a gradient to the trainer - so on the screen it is saying 10% and I'm grinding away at 70rpm in my second lowest gear, then suddenly for 2-3 seconds the trainer just loses resistance and i'm there spinning away like mad against nothing for a few seconds before the resistance kicks back in. This isn't due to hairpins or anything, it's happening on stretches of road where you can obviously see the gradient is still double digits.
During these little drop outs I'm still getting power, cadance and HR info so I don't think it is due to loss of connection with the trainer - using ANT+ to connect to windows 10 laptop <2m away from Elite Zumo trainer. I downloaded the video for this evening's ride beforehand and had the same issue vs streaming last time out. Running the videos in reactive mode rather than steady, but even changing to steady doesn't seem to solve it.
It's pretty annoying, otherwise really like the videos and the range of them particularly, but its not likely to get my money once I've done the tour of free trials if I can't fix the problem during the trial. Their help pages are pretty brief.
Ime ant + is flakey with trainers unless it's less than 2ft away never mind 2m.
Will give bluetooth a go next time then, was always under the impression that ANT+ was more reliable and the software recommends the ANT+ connection over the bluetooth. Thanks for the suggestion.
Looking at the data with the time axis stretched out it certainly looks consistent with a connection drop out and then all the values being smoothed as a rolling average with a load of zeroes thrown into the mix.
ant + is better , i just found it has to be very close. when it comes to recievers for computer.
I have a usb - usb extension cord and run that down from the computer to near the kickr and no more drop outs