True Manufacturing Company ES9.0 - Manual (Page 58)

ES9.0 Recumbent Bikes Owner’s Guide
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How These Modes are Different
chapter Eleven: Medical and Ergometer Mode
How These
Modes Are
Different
Operations
Restrictions
Setting
Pedal RPM
Limit
The two modes differ in the way they control workload:
Ergometer Mode: This emulates
a popular cycle ergometer whose
workload settings are in kiloponds
(see side bar) and are adjusted by
changing the amount of weight (in
kilograms) at the end of a brake
belt wrapped around a flywheel.
Many testing protocols are
written especially for such an
ergometer. These protocols can
now be run on the ES9.0 bike,
either programmed into a custom
program or run manually.
Medical Mode: This uses either
METs or watts, instead of
kiloponds, for workload control.
(Although that’s just like normal operation mode, Medical
mode adds the previously mentioned useful functions like
no torque roll-off and rpm limiting, and doesn’t allow riders
to play around with other exercise modes.) Most exercise
prescriptions are in either METs or watts, so this mode is
useful for that.
These modes restrict operation to manual and custom
programs. Refer to Chapter 5 for manual operation and
Chapter 9 for custom program operation.
Change the pedal RPM limit in Setup Mode.
What’s a kilopond?
This is an obsolete unit
of force, equivalent to
the gravitational force
on one kilogram at the
earth’s surface, or about
9.8 newtons. Sweden
made the kilopond its
official unit of force
in 1945, and thus it
ended up being used in
an ergometer made in
Sweden. It is essentially
equivalent to the force on
a kilogram at the Earth’s
surface.