Turbo Vado SL 2 6.0 - turns itself on when off and unattended

[BEC111]

Since then only 1 random turn on. But I've had a motor fault (sadly didn't record the number) & yesterday during a ride the H3 displays locked up. Sorted by doing a full reset - but really shouldn't be necessary!!
Time still often incorrect on H3 until connected to App.

My SL2 has only powered on itself twice. To my knowledge. The time is off any time I don’t ride for more than a day.

Both of these bugs are annoying but not earth shattering. Specialized has finally realized that their e-bikes are computers on two wheels. They just haven’t quite gotten the software/firmware right.

 

[Mike Tod]

Mine did it again yesterday. Seems it resets time to 00.00 when this happens too. I'm sure its a software bug but Spec don't really seem interested..... Shame, when you spend some 6k on a bike you do expect it to be fault-free !!

 

[BEC111]

I suspect that there are two issues here. The clock being off makes sense if there is no power to the H3 when the bike is powered down so the clock stops running. Perhaps, after a short delay. No battery in the H3 so the capacitor (a guess) that drive the clock discharges and needs to sync with the App to update.

The power on mystery is the kind that is really hard to address since the problem occurs so rarely that catching it so a developer can identify the problem can be a matter of chance.

 

[Mike Tod]

Umm. Maybe. But for the first 12 months or so of ownership there were zero problems with time or self powering on. So maybe it was a Spec' update that started it all.... Even now some days when I've switched on after maybe a week of inactivity (temperature here in Summer has been high 30's low 40's so often too hot for riding) the time has been correct, other times it can be off after only 1 day, so that doesn't really fit with the discharging capacitor theory. Thanks for input though. LBS reckons he might have to send it back to Spec' in France 'cos he's out of ideas......

 

[BEC111]

Umm. Maybe. But for the first 12 months or so of ownership there were zero problems with time or self powering on. So maybe it was a Spec' update that started it all.... Even now some days when I've switched on after maybe a week of inactivity (temperature here in Summer has been high 30's low 40's so often too hot for riding) the time has been correct, other times it can be off after only 1 day, so that doesn't really fit with the discharging capacitor theory. Thanks for input though. LBS reckons he might have to send it back to Spec' in France 'cos he's out of ideas......

Oh well. The capacitor idea was merely a guess. I doubt there are capacitors in the unit. Resolution will be interesting. In keeping with my past tech experience, Specialized will make a firmware update that will fix the problem and not tell us.