1. When I select a workout but do not press start, the app. seems to be locked in ERG mode at the power level of the first segment. Can this be set as Slope?
2. Offset. I’ve found I need to set this at 2% to get a reasonable resistance from the trainer (slope mode), if I change this it alters the resistance massively going from almost nothing to ‘riding through porridge’ feeling. Is this correct?
3. Power smoothing. Worked well with my last set up, Tacx Bushido in dumb mode controlled by a Stages single arm PM crank. Now it is more difficult to maintain a steady pace. Maybe due to the extra mass of the JB flywheel?
4. ERG to Slope mode issue. Have noticed that when dropping from a higher power segment to a low power Slope segment the resistance can take nearly 2 minutes to come back up.
Can you change our slope increment to be like 0.1 or 0.5? Then pressing up or down will have much less effect. Do the workouts that you’re starting have slope as the first target? Maybe you’re right. Before you start pedaling, maybe we need to look at that first segment and send a slope target before the workout starts. We usually send 40% of FTP, which should start fairly moderate and then quickly switch to the slope.
I have a JB Victory and it performed well over the past year. I had issues with U.S. customer support but the trainer itself worked fine, until it didn’t. My issues were documented in another post on here. If after trouble shooting yourself and no resolution, you could contact customer service through the app. It will likely route your issue to a guy named Murray. Murray is awesome and very responsive. I believe he is located in Australia.
Now let’s try to get it working. I never had to mess with offset. I would open the JBV app every few weeks and do a spin down calibration. So I’d start there. Make sure you close other apps first. After you complete the spin down calibration, close the JBV app. Make sure other apps are closed too.
Then open the Trainer Day app (make sure other apps that might try to control the trainer are closed) and try your workout. The number one issue I found before figuring things out was other apps were open and trying to control the trainer. Having 2 or more apps open that have access to controlling the trainer makes for a very confusing experience.
The other thing Murray mentioned to me was if I wasn’t using WiFi for Zwift, TPV etc, just disconnect it from WIFI. He said Trainer Day and the JBV don’t play well together over WIFI.
Can you change our slope increment to be like 0.1 or 0.5? Then pressing up or down will have much less effect.
Yep. Changed the ‘Slope Increase %’ value to 0.1 in the App. settings. Lets see how it goes.
‘Resistance Inc %’ is at 2%, worth changing?
Do the workouts that you’re starting have slope as the first target?
Yes. Once I learned of this feature I converted all my workouts to Slope or a combination of Slope/Erg…a great idea. For Z2 workouts they are all Slope, start to finish. For the interval workouts I’ll have an easy Slope start then the intervals in Erg with any rest periods in Slope too.
Maybe you’re right. Before you start pedaling, maybe we need to look at that first segment and send a slope target before the workout starts.
We usually send 40% of FTP, which should start fairly moderate and then quickly switch to the slope.
Hmmmm, that would be quite low even for me, but it seems that before I actually start the workout the mode is set as ERG. I’ll try the same workout and confirm what’s happening.
