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Kind of. All my past ramp tests have been with the kickr only. I was reading about powermatch and found out you can tell the kickr to ignore its own sensor and use an ANT+ PM for control in Erg mode. I changed the setting (using my Rotor PM as a ref) then forgot. I’ve been doing workouts with powermatch on, and getting some big spikes and trouble with it settling into intervals - probably due to interfering feedback loops.
Turned powermatch off for the ramp test but the Rotor PM was still controlling the kickr. There Rotors read lower than the Kickr so my result was the same as my last test, actually I put out ~4% more power.
Since then I’ve told the kickr to take its own sensor as reference and kept powermatch on. Jobs a goodun.
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Turns out I had my Rotor PM controlling the Kickr during my last ramp test - according to my nerdy calcs it's actually a ~4% increase FTP. Hoorah.