Intuvia Display tech

[NicholasPSmith]

Can anyone tell me why the Bosch Intuvia display has an internal battery? Once depleted it’s very hard to replace...

There’s a connection from the display to create a power source / communication link with the battery pack.

...so WHY does the display need a battery at all?
Other displays rely solely on a power supply from the battery pack.

Seems like a bad design choice.


It’s very confusing.
Thank you.
Nicholas.

 

[rich c]

My guess is that they want to retain settings when the main bike battery is removed. Some riders bring the main battery in the home to charge, especially in the winter, maybe weeks at a time. I was a mechanical engineer for part of my working career. It's tough to assume the engineer in this case put something in the display that was unnecessary. But maybe you are an electrical engineer and design systems like this all the time.