Battery consumption with or without course tracking

Hi there,

Does anyone know if there is a difference (and to what extent) in battery consumption during activity (i.e. cycling) if you track the course or not?

By tracking the course I mean if you enable it in the Biking menu under Navigation -> Courses -> <defined course> -> Do course. (speaking for Fenix 6)

Thank you,

Matic

0 GaryMort over 4 years ago

Interesting thread!

Both my wife and I ran last Saturday and followed a course. We expected to finish within 10 hours so thought there wouldn’t be an issue with our 6 Pros. Luckily we took portable battery packs as my wife was topping up after 8.5hrs and me 9.5hrs.
However we use the map screen constantly and have track up so I can now see why we used so much battery.

0 Ɛpsilon over 4 years ago in reply to GaryMort

Yeah, i saw improvements with north-up. Haven't done a long course for a little while so hard to quantify