Power Meter for the Advancement of Science?

[EricS]

A Request for a Loan:

My 13 year old daughter Holly would like to conduct a research project into the relationship between seat placement and power production. She is currently doing the background research and developing a procedure for the testing phase. She hopes to present her findings at the UVic Science Fair.

Here's the hitch. She will need a power meter. I, of course, would love buy her (me) one, but can't quit swing that yet.

If anyone had say a rear hub power meter that we could borrow in a week or two, for a few days, Holly would be grateful. There may be some cookies involved, and of course credit giving during the fair.

The testing would be done indoors, for short periods of time, on a trainer, with my quick release skewer and my tire.

Thanks for listening,

Eric

[Lister Farrar]

I have one, but it needs batteries or a short tracked down. Want to play with it? If not, this might be yet more incentive I need to get it fixed.

[DavidB]

One alternative to a power meter is to use a stationary trainer and find it's resistance curve, and then work the speed into that. it's not quite as precise, but I used it for my science fair project with warm-ups and power. I could dig that up if Holly wants some examples of that. But toys like power meters are always fun.