Battery consumption with or without course tracking

A lot depends on how often you view the map screen. I find the heaviest use is when I keep that screen on a lot, though I can minimise that by using North Up rather than Track Up

I actually had the map always on while cycling. And the battery level went quickly down. I probably started at around 65%, but after 6 hours of cycling, it was dead. I had the map navigation always on. I was wondering if this was the issue. DO you think it was? So, if I understand correctly if the screen is not at the map view then it should not affect the battery?

What does the North/Track Up mean? I saw it on the menu, but have no clue what does it mean.

Thanks a lot.

Thats pretty heavy usage, I'm not seeing that bad drain...

North up means north is always at 12 o clock on the watch

Track up means that the direction you're heading in is at 12'o'clock. This often means a lot of map redrawing, and can exacerbate usage,,,

With track up, as you move around it redraws the entire screen. With North up, it just redraws the little arrow representing you...

I'll do a test with a map screen on constantly, but I think I get about 6% usage in that case with North Up. But that is from memory, so take it with a pinch of salt

Thanks. I see I had set it to track up. And maybe it was not 65%, but more 50%. And with HR on, GPS+Galileo,... And the battery actually died after approx. 7 hours (it was 6 hours of effective biking).

With 100% battery it shows me 31 hours of activity {in theory). But this doesn't take into account tracking and other settings like track up/north up, and other things.

If you will do some measurements I would be glad to hear it from you here.

Thanks

i experienced similar results when following course. Also using my varia display is a significant contributor. I believe that it was much better with earlier Sw versions. I always follow course with the display always on (isn't that the point,  ie u need to look at the map to see when to turn) and i think since 8.3 or so the battery took a turn for the worse in terms of following course and varia display. In all other cases battery is awesome 

My weekend runs are usually my more planned session, so I'll sort out a route for the weekend, but I think in my case I get far better battery BUT in the interest of full disclosure I use a HR strap and I THINK ANT+ uses less battery than OHR over that time!

If the route you have has good TBT, you can keep off the map screen running as you'll get a flash up of the next turn, but I appreciate with cycling that's harder due to the fast you're quicker

Leaving the map screen running as your main screen definitely burns way more battery. Having it as a secondary screen and just scrolling to it when you need to do a nav check is far more battery friendly. The Distance to Next or Time to Next navigation fields is a good way of knowing how far to get to the next turn, and when to do a nav check.

The map should flash up automatically as you approach a turn if you are following a course with Turn by Turn navigation.

If you use the map data page as your main page during a navigation, you will have a very high battery consumption. The permanent renewal of the map/position on the map takes a lot of battery. And if you are doing a routing to a destination etc., it takes even more. If there are also several reroutings, it get´s >

I have done several routings (for testing battery consumption) to a destination, map page as main page, several reroutings (I did not follow the calculated route intentionally for testing), tempe sensor connected (no phone connection, no music, no whr/hr, gps only, tracking 1 sec. etc.) and got about up zt 10%/hr. Without using map page as main page (otherwise same settings, but no rerouting):  up to 5%/hr.