The Garmin Edge 500 Thread

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jmilliron
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by jmilliron

Your PT provides a cadence estimate to the Garmin. I guess it judges by the dead spot in your pedal stroke. The average is actually really accurate.
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jmilliron wrote:Your PT provides a cadence estimate to the Garmin. I guess it judges by the dead spot in your pedal stroke. The average is actually really accurate.


It has to report cadence as that's how power is calculated. I also found it very accurate.
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Cool. Thanks for the feedback. I did not realize that. Turns out that I thought this was pretty accurate but had no idea how it was done!

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Cadence has nothing to do with the power calculation. Wheel rotation does.

Cadence is calculated by the power peaks in your pedal stroke. Peak power is ~2x avg power per stroke so it's pretty easy to pick out although it's limited to 40-120 rpm with the Powertap (or was with the LYC/Cervo)

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mayhem wrote:Cadence has nothing to do with the power calculation. Wheel rotation does.


Ah yes - Powertap - my bad. Too used to SRM / Quarq.
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Another Garmin connect question. ONce you have downloaded an activity there is there any way to extract the original .fit file ?

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Nope, only a .tcx file, AFAIK

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Garmin confirmed to me that GTC cannot create workout with power zones. They recommended to create the workout directly on the device which is a real pain.

Is there any non garmin SW that can be used to create workout with power zone and download them into the Edge 500?

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Interesting, I can

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rgkicksbutt wrote:Nope, only a .tcx file, AFAIK


I think you can just grab it straight of the CPU via Windows Explorer or similar.

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rgkicksbutt wrote:Interesting, I can

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what sw is that GTC?

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@LionelB - Yes, Garmin Training Centre, Version 3.1.4

@GZA - LionelB was asking about exporting from the online Garmin Connect, I believe you can only export rides as .tcx Yes you could copy and paste the .fit file right from the Garmin when it's plugged in

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This is weird, I have version 3.5.3 and this is not an option there. I emailed Garmin and they confirmed that i twill be available in a version yet to be release with no date!

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must be a difference between Mac and Windows versions.

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rgkicksbutt wrote:@LionelB - Yes, Garmin Training Centre, Version 3.1.4

@GZA - LionelB was asking about exporting from the online Garmin Connect, I believe you can only export rides as .tcx Yes you could copy and paste the .fit file right from the Garmin when it's plugged in


Maybe! But uploading to connect does not delete the file from the 500 so the file will still be there to download won't it?

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