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[Closed] Granny and the turbo

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Is there a minimum output for registering on a turbo.

The other day I was in the granny and spinning relatively slowly and it seemed to confuse the resistance and read 0 power output. If I sped up the rpm it then appeared to work.

It’s a “Drivo”.

I rarely use the thing so can’t say if it’s ever worked before.


 
Posted : 23/01/2021 1:57 pm
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I have a drivo. It'll register well under 50w, no idea how it'd "cope" with less than 20 or so but I've never seen zero registered when pedaling


 
Posted : 23/01/2021 3:43 pm
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My 7 year old son has ridden my Drivo on Zwift and it quite happily registered his power output of circa 20W or so.


 
Posted : 23/01/2021 3:48 pm
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Genuinely disappointed this isn’t about Gran dropping watt bombs in a Zwift Crit Race


 
Posted : 23/01/2021 3:49 pm
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Genuinely disappointed this isn’t about Gran dropping watt bombs in a Zwift Crit Race

Definitely a misleading clickbait title!


 
Posted : 23/01/2021 3:57 pm
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Somewhere there will be a table showing the power range at different cadences for the Drivo in 34T and 50T rings at least. Is there a Drivo user Facebook group?

There is a Direto group and iirc from the table, 34/18 gear gives a range of something like 84-484W at 80-100rpm.

When I cool down in easy gears, the power can easily go sub 50W, but a quirk I've noticed is the cadence reading drops to ~50% of actual below ~60W if I'm spinning at my normal 90ish. If I slow down my cadence to ~70 in such situations, the reading on Zwift then looks normal again.


 
Posted : 23/01/2021 4:02 pm
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I though this was going to be about


 
Posted : 23/01/2021 4:08 pm
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I don't think it's so much a out the power in your situation but the doped of the rear wheel (or 'wheel' if it's a wheel off turbo). In granny the rotation of the rear wheel is so slow for a given crank rpm I would guess it doesn't work well with their resistance algorithm?


 
Posted : 23/01/2021 4:57 pm
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If you're doing intervals and suddenly go from 250 watts to 125 say it will sometimes register 0 for a few seconds as the erg mode catches up on my Drivo... legs are going round so assuming some power is coming out if them😉


 
Posted : 23/01/2021 8:04 pm