I'm considering to purchase the Fenix 5S Plus, the Varia Vision Display and the Varia Radar Tail Light but wanted to make sure they can be used together as a system. I know there's a radar display unit that can be purchased separately but I'd rather use the Varia Vision to show the radar info/alert. Is that possible? If yes, will the Varia Vision also show the speed in addition to the radar info?
I would suspect the battery life would be adversely affected though. How long would you expect your longest ride to be? With GPS and bluetooth, I was looking at 7 - 8 hrs from a fully charged battery.
I have the 5+, vision and RTL and it works very well. Radar info are shown on the vision and watch screen just like on a edge device (orange line on right or left edge of the screen). Other data fields (like speed) are shown at the same time and not obstructed.
Battery life do take a hit, the more devices you connect.
I don’t remember the exact drain, but believe that on a 5.5 hr continues ride with my phone, vision, rtl, cadence-, and speed-sensor connected, gps and Galileo, smart recording, I went from 100% to 10-15%. And this is on a 5+, fw 3.1
