Power meter battery issues

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I’ve been using two sets of power tap P1S for nearly ten years now.

However I’ve used Duracell batteries, not the fancy expensive ones you’re supposed to use.

I put in a new model, Duracell “optimum” last week, did a 2.5hr ride. The power meter was dead at 57km today. Checked the pressure of the battery which if too tight cuts it our,t at the cafe but still dead.

Changed the battery at home for a fresh “optimum”. It searches and detect, and calibrates, but it’s not quite right. Usually I can go into. “About” on my forerunner to see it say battery health is good, but there’s no option for that.

:man_shrugging:

New bike?

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when you say fancy ones do you mean the double sized ones? I read once to put some grease or something between the cells if you use 2x std ones to prevent arcing.

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I think they’re lithium or some material a normal AAA doesn’t have. One cost £8 at a photographers shop about ten years ago.

Given they worked with Duracell, I don’t think it’s the batteries. But I don’t know what Optimum indicates chemically/electrically.

Plus it’s an old pedal so maybe it’s just draining power faster..?

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Hang on, you havent used the right battery and you have an issue?

Maybe try the right battery first. They are cheaper than what youve bought.

Thread closed.

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I have Powertap P1 and just use normal or ultra Duracell, mine are 10 or 11 years old also, don’t seem to have a problem, still get the ~75hrs from them. never tried those new fancy batteries. I did have a problem when I had no spares and my Mrs had bought some pound shop specials, and they were actually a mm shorter or something silly so didn’t contact

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Joex needs his own equipment woes thread :sweat_smile:

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It riles me up.

Look - ive been told one thing. Ive done something else, now I want help with the problem caused by me not doing as I am told.

Bizarre

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I thought you were an anarchist. Not a slave to the system?!
:wink:

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He makes his own batteries.

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My ironometer is powered by an automatic movement.

It remembers the time @Poet was running around Transition trying to source a battery for his PM pedals :rofl: 11/06/2019 :man_tipping_hand:

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Ha ha ha :face_with_open_eyes_and_hand_over_mouth:

Still did a 4:27. Including two stops and a barf.

I learned a valuable lesson that day - include a few spares in your bag.

Mistakes are a given. Learning from them is not.

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Yes, your HIM was often strong iirc; shame it didn’t quite convert to IM as you’d have been well under 10 in theory. But we all know about the best laid plans; I had a few fall by the wayside.

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If it can go wrong, it already has for me.

I feel like I am the unknowing God of The Running Out Of Charge Batteries, and they follow me around pervading my life - as a form of worship.

My phones don’t charge either. Did I bleat about my car battery here, when I had a car? I even bought a pro car battery charger.

Don’t offer me a lift in an EV, for fucks sake.

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Prove the problem is the battery type and you can remount your high horse.

I obviously chose to include that as it might be a factor, but that doesn’t mean it is.

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Every time I think Dustin Klein on ‘Everything’s Been Done’ has convinced me SRAM AXS is the way to go, I hear dramas related to batteries on shifters. Someone was moaning on a gravel ultra video last night their SRAM was killing the battery life, and they’d have to limp home on a single gear.

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I dunno - null hypothesis, right? Try the battery they recommend. If it still is broke…then its broke. Mine are about a decade old now (P1S pedals) and tempermental (sic)

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Fuck. I’m riding tomorrow and forgot about the power meter issue.

Thank TT!