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My point being – making power meters is hard. … Remember the PowerTap pedal based and chainring based power meters that were just announced last month? I first saw early stage units almost two years ago on that.
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The Vector power meter is competing with Polar to be the first one on the market with their respective power meters. … From a pricing standpoint, the $1,499 represents one that’s effectively competitive with the likes of Quarq and their Cinqo crank based system, while undercutting SRM’s power meters.
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In Pioneer’s case it was both a drop down to $999USD for their dual left/right power meters, as well as introduction of new left-only power meters. … The pricing isn’t yet finalized but was noted that it’d basically be in the same ballpark as their existing road bike single-leg power meters (so roughly €800).
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Clark noted that unlike most of the power meters today using foil strain gauges, these use silicon strain gauges mounted in glass on stainless steel. … Without question the most talked about sports technology product this year at Interbike is Garmin’s Vector, which is a pedal based power meter.
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I suspect this issue manifested itself with Team Garmin and the team car, and being able to quickly re-pair power meters and sensors on a slew of closely located bikes without having to manually go through the entire pairing process. … While GPS-based altimeters used in aviation and military applications are far more accurate – those used in consumer applications tend to be sketchy.
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As usual, I put the trainer…err…rollers up against a number of power meters to see how well it handled everything from resistance control accuracy, to speed of change, to any other weird quirks along the way. … It allows you to compare power meters/trainers, heart rate, cadence, speed/pace, GPS tracks and plenty more.
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While announcements of power meters this time of year aren’t unheard of, what is causing some ripples in the power meter world is the price point: $499. … Unlike most offerings however that have dipped lower in price over the last 12-18 months – the PowerBeat measures both left and right power independently on both crank arms and does so at levels on-par with existing power meters.
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While there have been nice 10-20% drops each year over the past few years, I think the introduction of dual-sided power meters at the ~$500-$700 level, and other full capture units (i.e PowerTap C1) helped drive prices further downward. … Over the past few weeks there have been a number of notable price drops by power meter companies.
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The Watteam guys found this kinda neat as it allowed them to demonstrate how the system works on either material, which can be a challenge for some power meters. … This means that it would have been incredibly difficult (actually, impossible), for me to gather the data outdoors in a way that I could normalize and compare against other power meters.
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Here at Eurobike Power2Max has announced a number of new power meters, targeting two different markets. … They’ve produced an ANT+ enabled crank-based power meter that’s had consistently accurate results from the second generation onwards, as well as hitting a price point lower than any other crank-based power meters (or rather, anything in that particular region of the bike: crank/spider/pedal/cleat).
www.dcrainmaker.com/2010/09/look-at-quarqs-new-power-meter.html
Power Meter manufacturer Quarq made a number of announcements on Wednesday related to power meters, so let’s get into the quick recap: 1) Introduction of a mountain bike power meter unit 2) Announced upcoming compatibility of Cinqo’s with SRM Power Control 7 head units 3) Announced new iPhone app that will allow shops (and end users) advanced diagnostic and configuration of Quarq Power Meters, as well as allow over the air firmware updates in the future to the power meter, via Wahoo Fitness iPhone app key. … For example, the below bike is configured to concurrently update both head units, from a single Quarq power meter.
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This is definitely the week of power meters, and there’s no shortage of new products – for both Bluetooth Smart as well as ANT+. … Here at Eurobike, Kinetic introduced a power meter accessory/attachment (inRIDE) for their existing trainers – which adds highly accurate power meter measurement to a Kinetic trainer for about $200.
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But in cases of power meters, you tend to actually want jetted water requirements given the high speeds at which water can enter the unit. … Note: Updated 8/31/2012 at 5:15PM Easter Time This year at Eurobike, Pioneer has finalized and announced details of their upcoming power meter solution, which is due to be out ‘roughly’ in January 2013.
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This target price is inline with other left-only power meters as priced today (i.e. … At Interbike this past week a startup company was showing off a new entrant into the crank spindle power meter world.
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Meaning that if you have separate power meters for each bike (somewhat rare today, I do understand), then you’ll have to manually pair the power meter each time as the Ambit2 units today only support a single power meter pairing. … As you can see below the Ambit2 (silver) is 1.74mm thicker than the Ambit2 S (Lime) – again, remember we’re talking millimeters here.
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I’m going to give it a 90% chance that this is Suunto’s issue, since my experience to date is pretty similar for other power meters I’ve tried with weird Bluetooth sensor recording issues on the Suunto Spartan. … Updated to add: On Thursday evening at Eurobike, I sat down with Jim Meyer, founder of Quarq to talk about everything from the new power meters, historical tidbits, and what Kickstarter Jim wants to launch with Quarq.
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They were very closed lip when it came to discussing what additional power meter metrics they’ll be adding to the pedals themselves, but I suspect we’ll see them roughly in line with what other pedal and left/right power meters are adding around Torque Effectiveness and Pedal Smoothness. … At one point they noted that they were adopting the standard Bluetooth Smart power meter device profile (like Stages and other BLE power meters such as the newly announced PowerTap units).
