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Display Brightness

Former Member over 4 years ago

I've been using a Wahoo Bolt for the last few years, and although I didn't have any issues, some of the new features of the 530 caught my eye. Picked one up today and set it up, and the I primary issue I have is that the screen isn't bright enough. I rode in daylight today and had to set it to 90-100% to see the screen well enough while riding in sunlight (and it still wasn't very bright). I played with the auto-brightness, and it was always too dark, so I had to turn it off and manually increase the brightness.

Also, I saw the touted 20 hour battery life, and while that's nice, I won't be doing any 20 hour rides, and don't have an issue with charging the unit daily. I'd need a max of 8 hours, so perhaps just leaving it maxed at 100% is the solution?

Is this common? Any suggestions? Could I have bad unit or is this just the way it is?

Thanks in advance.

CPritch

0 Machoman over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

If you're after the clearest, brightest and easiest screen to see - it's the Wahoos. I've always marveled at how easy it is to see the wahoo screens - elemnt and the roam. Even just glancing at another cyclist's Wahoo you can see the details. Glance at the garmin and all you'll get is a black glossy screen. The Wahoo screen is almost night and day from the edges - so easy on the eyes. But on purchase time I always went with the cheaper option (520+, 530).

If not for the white direction arrow during the countdown to a turn the edge would be very hard to use as a navigation unit - the magenta route line is very hard to discern in real life cycling.

At least this time the 530's have the superior battery life - that's one advantage over the Wahoo.

0 2238943 over 2 years ago

I'll just agree with you. I am very disappointed with display, it's pale and dim, like it's somewhere deep under the glass. It works okay indoors, but out in open space you have to set 100% backlight to even see the diffrence from backlight turned off. And it's still not close enough to read it comfortably. Not to mention poor font choice - there are fonts that would be much more readable. Buttons? Catastrophy.

Display and buttons are ground zero, all other features are useless if these two are not good.

I've upgraded from edge 130 (that was excellent, only battery life became short) to edge 530 and there is only disappointment that I feel.