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"Lux hours" doesn't mean anything

Locked-N-Loaded
10 months ago

I bought a new Enduro 2.

So, im realizing, "lux hours" is meaningless. What is a "lux hour"? No one even knows what that means or translates to. So if my watches battery life can be extended by the solar charger, which is reported as "lux hours", what's a person suppose to even do with that? 

Why isn't there a screen on the solar intensity screen that converts that into something meaningful like... "12 minutes of battery life added". Otherwise, "lux hours" is meaningless as it has no reference to numbers that any person would understand. "Lux hours" isn't proving to me any battery life was added. It just means the solar panel registered sunlight.

I have "90.1k lux hours" today on a run. Ok? So what? What does that even mean? Why not give us a useful conversion?

  • 0 10 months ago in reply to bluefish

    See what I mean... I show you "real time battery calculations" and, as expected, you dismiss it like everything else. Who cares if this app impacts battery life? Who cares if this is a 3rd party app? Another red herring point. What it shows you is real time battery calculations happening. undeniably. for fact. Exactly the proof you wanted. But of course, you find a way to dismiss it. You always have a reason as to why everybody else's data somehow isn't meeting your needs as a level of proof.

    You're a troll, plain and simple & you have proven you have zero credibility.

  • 0 10 months ago in reply to Locked-N-Loaded
    Locked-N-Loaded said:
    Who cares if this app impacts battery life?

    Anyone who buys a Garmin because they need battery life.

  • 0 10 months ago in reply to Locked-N-Loaded
    Locked-N-Loaded said:
    I show you "real time battery calculations"
    Locked-N-Loaded said:
    What it shows you is real time battery calculations happening.

    I don't know how you can think that showing an IQ app is proof that Garmin is doing real time calculations. This app is not from Garmin, and this app uses its own algorithm. It has nothing to do with Garmin.

    Locked-N-Loaded said:
    You always have a reason as to why everybody else's data somehow isn't meeting your needs as a level of proof.

    I have yet to see any evidence from you that reflects the Garmin algorithm. The only thing you show so far is an IQ app that comes from a non-Garmin developer that we don't know how it works. Only the developer of this app could do that. What data does the developer use in his code for the calculation?

    Provide GARMIN data !

    why do you refuse to show what remaining time in days your watch shows at 5% and at 100% display brightness ?

  • 0 10 months ago
    PubBike said:
    For sure the user is irrelevant if they leave the watch in its box at home. 

    You obviously didn't understand what I was trying to say. That is not the point.

    bluefish said:

    You need to know how much light the solar cell ITSELF receives.

    Unless you point the watch face directly at the sun all day long. The value drops abruptly if this is not the case.

  • 0 10 months ago in reply to bluefish

    It's not about whether the watch is at home. The point is that the watch is on your arm and is certainly not exposed to direct sunlight outside all the time.
    It is therefore irrelevant whether the user is exposed to 50,000 lux. If you move your arm and the watch is only temporarily exposed to this value, these are two completely different values.

    In general, it seems to me that the efficiency of the Enduro's solar function is MUCH overrated here.

    For example, in "max battery GPS mode", the Enduro's increas runtime is about 2.7 times the value of the runtime without solar. (Continuous 50,000 lux acting on the SOLAR SURFACE),

    An Instinct 2x achieves an INFINITE  runtime under the same conditions. Data from the data sheets.

    Locked-N-Loaded said:
    something meaningful like... "12 minutes of battery life added".

    If you then install an additional third-party app on an Enduro, which consumes additional power (and the OP doesn't care that this is the case), you have negated the low effectiveness of the solar cell.

    The OP wants to know if 12 minutes of battery has been gained by solar, but says himself that he doesn't care if an app eats up the battery.

    Locked-N-Loaded said:
    Who cares if this app impacts battery life?


    Obviously he doesn't care about battery life

    So what's the point of this discussion here?

    just my two Wave

    —

    OP‘s watch : 

    The OP's watch consumes about 1.9% per hour in the video. With a fenix 7x you get up to 1% extra at 150,000 lux hours.

    With the watch switched OFF! !

    Since so much emphasis is placed on calculations in this thread, you are free to calculate how many lux are needed to compensate for the 1.9% per hour consumption of the watch by the solar cell.

    -/////-

    Here is some more data that is THEORETICALLY possible with a fenix 7x.

    Just to give you an idea of the % figures ( o,x%) being discussed here.