Jobst wrote -
> Placing it in the BB seems even more difficult, the rotation rate
> being even slower and forces greater with no more space than in a rear
> hub.
This has been recently tried - see web site at -
http://www.ergomo-usa.com/sensor.html
My lbs guy Steve writes reviews of gear for a local bike magazine and says
the optical sensor in the bb is a clever idea but it only measures torsion
in one crank, and attempts to infer the power going into the other crank,
leaving the output readings open to question.
The Powertap hub is a bit heavy for use in a race. the Polar system is
fiddly and not always reliable. which leaves the SRM system the only
reasonably accurate on the bike power measurement at present - and as with
all unregulated monopolies, SRM price their system accordingly.
My reason for enquiring about this is that I recently re-built my ergo which
uses blades attached to the spokes of the driven wheel and a 7 sp Nexus
internally geared hub for resistance - in the re-building I asked Steve
about including some form of power measurement and we went through the
alternatives, all of which cost a lot for something you can get a rough
sense of from a simple cadence counter on the crank and recording how big a
gear you can push for an effort at a constant cadence. If you keep to a
given cadence, presumably reaching for a bigger gear indicates the training
is going well - and vice versa.
From the set up I describe would it be possible to calculate watts delivered
to the driven wheel ?
best, Andrew (remove the .x1 to reply)