Wahoo Element Bolt, tree cover and loss of signal

[Rob Hawks]

I haven't had my Wahoo that long, but already I can tell it loses the gps signal more often and easily than the Garmin. Sometimes the Gamin would lose the signal through the Tree Tunnell on CA 128 by Navarro, CA but the Wahoo was chirping about lost and found signals for nearly the whole 10 miles outbound. Then, oddly, it barely lost the signal on the way back through the same stretch. Others in my group had the exact opposite experience (first time no loss, second time home bound lots of lost signals).

What happens to the recording in such instances? Does there stand a chance that some distance can be lost (for example if the record ends up being a lot of short, but straight lines when the true path is meandering)?

rob

[Patrick Herlihy]

I was also wondering if the complaining was actually "off course" rather than "lost signal"; that both of ours would tend to complain at exactly the same time, made me think the ridewithgps track might be slightly off (or the Wahoo is more sensitive to this than Garmin).  We ended up with very similar mileage, taking my meat pie detour into account.

[Stephen S]

If you have a speed sensor paired it's distance is recorded over the gps distance. I have an Elemnt and struggled with it's tracking under tree cover, the gps track is all over the place until it eventually reestablishes a reliable signal. I need to see how it compares to my Garmin 520 in the same area though. 

Stephen

On Sunday, May 20, 2018 at 9:05:50 PM UTC-7, rob hawks wrote:

[Robert Sexton]

My Element Bolt struggled to maintain good coverage on the exact same stretch of road during the SR 600k.  I've still got the Garmin, and it didn't have any problems there.

- Robert

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[Metin Uz]

I also had a lot of "off route" warnings on my Bolt, which detracted from the peaceful tree tunnel experience. Looking at my GPS tracks, it doesn't look that far off the road, and more or less comparable to my tracks on earlier years with Garmin devices. At this point, I think the problem is mostly that Bolt has too quick a trigger for these warnings. As a result, it seems to issue a lot of beeps (off route - route found - off route - route found ...) 

--Metin

[Dan]

I had the same problem recently where I was in a deep cover portion of my ride and kept getting the "off route!!" alert. Kinda ruins the moment...

Later I found that you can mute the alert: From the map page you press the "route" button, which takes you to the turn-by-turn directions. From that page, the center button is "mute" which will turn off the route alerts until you hit "unmute". Pretty handy, but wish I had known that before the ride!

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- Dan
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