Elite Qubo Digital SmartB+_Very low w/kg

Bugs and Support
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Hi Everyone,

I practicing on Zwift with my Elite Qubo Digital Smart B+ (no Powermeter at all) for 2 days. I’m definitely not a cycling pro but kind of sporty (85kg - 180cm). Yesterday I tried my first group training (D / ca. 1,2 w/kg). I thought this should be possible to stay within but from the beginning I had no chance to stay in the group. I tried as much as possible for me but I received maximum 120W and couldn’t take it longer than 10 seconds. After this I tried a Free ride and recognized that I can only ride with max 80W for longer time. Is it possible that I’m just that untrained (barely believe this) or is there a bug in measuring the Watts?

I’m very thankful for your help and advice.

Best regards
Heiko

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I have the same issue. Incredibly difficult. It makes participating in races impossible. Can someone help to get this trainer corrected?

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I’m not sure that it works on Zwift, but you could try changing the calibration values. There are some threads about this, for example https://forums.zwift.com/t/final-word-on-elite-qubo-digital-smart-b/2482/62 or https://forums.zwift.com/t/elite-qubo-digital-smart-b-high-power-readings/8540/60 .

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Heiko, i have one of these trainers. I had same problem, low output. You need to calibrate in within the Elite app (on device). 3 numbers are required to calibrate which represent the power of hills, flat and downhills. You push them to your trainer via app. Increase the default 3 numbers by 25% or so. But its a bit hit and miss. Careful, my qubo reset back to default values and i know can’t calibrate. So its in the bin! I’m not going for a ride outputting 50W.

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Thanks Stewart. Is there a way to confirm the applicable values for P1, P2 and P3 without requiring additional spend on an external power metre?

I’ve read a number of posts on this today but can not see an answer to the above question. I took receipt of my Elite trainer over the weekend. It was immediately evident the power output was incorrect when using Zwift (far too low), and I am now going through process of re-calibrating the default ‘P’ values shown in MyETraining app to rectify.

But for a brand new ‘smart’ product, surely the answer can’t be customer trial and error until it feels approximately realistic.

Thanks.

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, surely the answer can’t be customer trial and error until it feels approximately realistic.

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I think it is!. My elite got water damaged and I threw it out.

My calibration on the elite was basically to (try) to match my actual real world ability. So I calibrate it to this. It was quite a headache. I’m kinda glad its gone. Got a Taxc neo2 now.

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Thanks for the quick reply. I’ll get on to Elite today and feedback with any updates from them.

As a rough approximation for now then, any idea what the P values should be for 79kg rider?

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Of course! Lucky I kept them.

Try. It was my final setting.

220 198 152

This was after about a month of trial settings, but goodness knows how equal all the machines are.

I was about 75kg (then) and a reasonable B grade rider. FTP about 260W but that is a guess.

I tried to get help from Elite after water damage but got nothing back – so expect nothing unfortunately…

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