Garmin elevations in crisis.
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
By much ?
N0bodyOfTheGoat
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On the activity webpage on Strava, click the "..." and "correct elevation" to have your log look reasonable.
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If that if the only crisis in your life, first world problems…
nogoodnamesleft
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Is everybody else using a Garmin 10x0 or are you comparing your 1040 with Wahoo/Bryton/Sigma devices?
I have always felt my Garmin overstates ascent/descent but that's always based on a few m ascent and then looking at what the Garmin ascent increases by and such low ascents will be subject to a fair variation and precision.
I have once had a real anomaly on measured ascent on my Garmin 1040 (might have been the 1050). Ascent way off but descent sensible and it must have been an anomaly as it was circular from home and invariable ascent is within a couple of meters of descent and on this occasion it was way different. Next ride it had been restarted and not happened again.
Checking against an online route is also not particularly useful as onling route creation/analysis necessarily has to use interpolation and from that some estimation so I always regard the figures they give as an index rather than a true height eg this rote is 300<x> and the alternative 600<x> and best I can say is the 2nd alternative is twice the ascent of the first.
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Milzy
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Boiler was broken but now fixed. Fix the first world problems first & work on the bigger ones will be easier.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
Come and fix my fridge LED please. Ordered a new one !
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- Inside my skull
Does it not come on when you open the door? Try closing the door to see if that works.
EckyH
It wasn't me!
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- Nottuln, North Rhine-Westphalia
Garmin 1040 and other Garmin devices guess the elevation by atmospheric pressure: barometric height "measurement".
Therefore I don't trust them not as high as I could throw them.
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This.
Once everyone has done it the elevations should be similar. Pre-correction hundreds of metres difference is not unusual.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
I never really bother with what the device says, I only really look once it's uploaded, then the height corrections are done.
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- Inside my skull
Atmospheric pressure derived is considered more accurate than GPS elevations. Only really a problem if you have a massive low or high pressure system moving rapidly across where you are.
