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Howard
Brommers
The trouble is that power meters tend not to recognise negative power figures and report these internally and externally as zero. So when you're slowing down, the power meter thinks that there's no power, and starts an autozero even though in fact there's load being applied, albeit reverse load. This skews the zero, and gives you inflated power figures.