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What about Gradient Lag?

Can anyone report if Garmin have fixed the issue that the 1030+ has with ridiculously long responses to changes in gradient?

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Garmin-Matthew 12 months ago +15 verified

Thank you for sharing your concerns about the undesirable lag in road grade. We want to share that we have a plan for an improved solution with consideration of both accuracy and responsiveness. Our engineers…
NZourik over 1 year ago in reply to Garmin-Matthew +17

@Garmin-Mathew.

If you really believe that 10-15 seconds delay is considered “normal” - as the official statement from Garmin is trying to force-feed customers, then what does that say about my Edge 1000…
zivadaddy over 1 year ago +17

I currently have a wahoo element (full size) a karoo2 and now a 1040 solar. as of the 12.14 release the 1040 solar still has a ridiculous lag as compared to the other two. I really don't care too much…

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0 smhagger707 12 months ago in reply to camillo.vezzoli

The unit is always monitoring for ‘slope drift’ using an algorithm of some sort-don’t know the details. It may be using barometric pressure data (I believe it is) to calibrate to sections of road that are horizontal.

I’ve rode with it a lot and can tell you it works, and very well.

+1 Garmin-Matthew 12 months ago

Thank you for sharing your concerns about the undesirable lag in road grade. We want to share that we have a plan for an improved solution with consideration of both accuracy and responsiveness. Our engineers are currently working on these improvements and we thank you for your feedback.

0 jasontech 12 months ago

I'm on Beta 17.23 and I can tell you that it is 5ish seconds faster then what it was on the latest public release. It still needs some work to get where it needs to be but it is faster on Beta 17.23.

0 looigi 12 months ago in reply to jgforrest

I hesitate to post this as I'm a data point of one, but using the inclination of the device would be problem for me as I generally have the tension of the clamp set to permit rotating about the bars rather than break something in the event of a crash or the Edge getting bumped. And def more of a problem on my mtbs. Even on the road bike, it's not unusual for me to grab the mount and adjust its angle while underway.

0 bbrannon 12 months ago in reply to Garmin-Matthew

Thank you. Will this also include the 530 and 830?

0 AndyThomas 12 months ago in reply to Garmin-Matthew

Thank you for the feedback. Great news that you have a solution on the way!

0 AndyThomas 12 months ago in reply to jasontech

I'll try and do some timings over the next week, but as you say it's not there yet at least for me on the sharper gradients. Let's hope that the dev team deliver something soon as per @Garmin-Matthew response

Be great to put this to bed

0 imacinty 11 months ago in reply to Garmin-Matthew

Thank you for responding to customer feedback! Looking forward to following the development work in this area.

0 jgforrest 11 months ago in reply to looigi

There are a couple of options to address this, auto calibrate can adjust over time if it detects a change of device angle, or a manual zero button or numeric offset override.

0 Michael_Kalina 11 months ago

I'm on SW beta 17.23
The lag still remains at 30+sec

Gradient lag = elevation lag = shortage of total ascent ((