All of the issues you just listed are those that I experienced… and have since been resolved by Garmin. No complaints whatsoever with the product for almost four months running now. For someone in the market today, I think either the Vector 3s or the Assiomas are a good buy.
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Mine are worse since the new replacement pods arrived.
If anyone’s interested I picked the Assiomas. Given they seem very equal the price was the deciding factor. Only done a few rides on the trainer so far but I’m very pleased. Hoping to get the first outdoor ride in this weekend!
I tried the Vector 3 cleats on the Assioma pedals just out of curiosity, they work but the Assioma seem to work just a little better. Funny the things you learn when you fit yourself to the bike, my left foot has a little of a cant to the left, so I need a little more float especially on the left side. The 6 degree cleats that come with the Vector 3’s have been comfortable for the last 3 months. I ordered some look keo grips 9 degree to see how they work on the Assioma and Vector 3’s. Don’t race and left foot being weird, rather have comfort.
One point with the Assioma’s which might be obvious (but unfortunately wasn’t to me) is that if you use the app to put them to sleep for travelling, make sure you take the charging lead with you as you need it to wake them up.
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With the latest app and firmware, you can set the timeout in the app.
Just got the Assioma recently as it was the cheapest PM that had literally no weaknesses according to DCrainmaker.
Got a newsletter though the other day, they might have a black Friday deal coming up.
I did the firmware reset, changed to uno and back. Did a ride this morning, same everything, did some yoga after the ride, watched the pedals, five minutes, they flashed and went dark. I think they’re working properly now. Riding rest of the week, I’ll continue to monitor. Ive got a case with favero, they confirmed the setting was set to five min off.
Now Assioma Duo costs 695€
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My personal experience with Vector 3 wasn’t so good, constant issue with one of the pedals dropping out to the extend that I don’t bother to cancel off the error message on my Garmin and just ride without numbers.
The local Garmin support was fantastic and they did their best to get exchange units for me within a reasonable time. However after 2 pedal changes and the new battery doors, my issue continues to persist and I just didn’t want to deal with it any more. I returned the Vector 3 and got a power meter from another company.
There are quite nice discounts on both of them today. Also the vector 3 can be purchased as cheap as 770€ from the Black friday sales.
Does anybody get any value from the pedalling dynamics that can be returned. My numbers hardly ever change and are invariably 50/50 49/51 for the balance between the two pedals.
I am not sure i would bother with dual-sided if I rebought.
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In contrast to this I’m only a few rides in with my Assiomas and have noticed that at low power my L/R split is approx. 57:43% at low power, but as soon as I get up to sweetspot or FTP it’s much very nearly 50:50%. I haven’t explored VO2 with them yet, but so far very glad I went for the double sided!
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Power dynamics is usable only for geeks and maybe for Pros, or even for their trainers. For non Pros power dynamics is completely unusable.
L/R balance is changing with cadence to: with 70rpm I have 46:54, but for 95rpm it is 50:50.
Standard keo cleats work like a charm. They hold even tighter to assiomas than to keo pedals. Or maybe it’s the stiffer springs in assiomas. Anywas no big deal.
I would avoid the Vector 3’s. I am on my third pair, the first two replaced by Garmin on warranty. Repeated problems with drop-outs which I will admit are 99.9% fixed in the newest pair, BUT the battery housing and nearly microscopic o-ring sealing the battery compartment mean that these pedals are delicate. Just do a search; if you much more than finger tighten the battery cover you risk stripping the plastic threads inside. The design is sleek, that’s why I bought them, I also have the vector 1 and 2’s and they are far more robust. I still get occassional dropouts and the only time it’s a problem now is when racing in Zwift, a two second dropout and the peleton has left you behind. Buy a pair of Vector 2’s, the batteries last longer and can be changed in the field. The Vector 3 batteries are often impossible to get out of the holder. You need a magnet to pull them out. That said Garmin support was very helpful and did their best to quickly replace my pedals.
What batteries are you using? I bought my V3 dual a couple of months back (so these are the modified doors) and after replacing the batteries I was having numerous drop outs and spikes! After hours of pouring over forums, I sourced it to ‘fretting’ of the the LR44 batteries.
Garmin recommend a particular brand, which is probably more resistant. Probably, part my fault for buying eBay special LR44. But being undeterred, I followed the oil fix ( dab of lube on the batteries) which completely fixed it. So no more movement of the batteries and more importantly, no spikes or drop outs.
What I didn’t want to do was faff with this proceedure, so on further reading people had started used the CR1/3N with great success. One battery per compartment. Lithium. No ‘fretting’ Spot on!
Thus far, no issues whatsoever - and the batteries seem to offer a better resistance to cold weather too.
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Hi does anybody know if the assioma duo sends Dual power over Bluetooth smart ??
Yeah, since the last firmware update I’m pretty sure they do
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They send summarized power via BLE Unified Channel, and the best is, in the feature you can choose option to send power separately, when app or device could read that data.
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