Question for those using routes and navigation...

What sort of battery burn rate are you getting?

I'm at around 7-8% per hour which seems high - 17.72 beta f/w F6Pro, using GPS and wristHR off (using a belt)...

(Map is on North Up, not track up)

Already removed all third party CIQ data fields, and have a custom power profile for ultra's but wonder how to improve that. Although I have a number of maps on my watch, for each activity only one is active

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C.sco over 4 years ago +1

Following. I have also noticed that my burn rate during activities seems unusually high lately (outside of activities, battery is fine). I haven't really looked into it or verified that it's even an issue…
Rayjeffr over 4 years ago +1

My most recent data point was from a 100k I ran last month. I saw a burn rate right around 3% per hour using navigation, minimal map viewing, oHR enabled, stryd footpod connected, Bluetooth connected,…
mcbadger over 4 years ago in reply to Ɛpsilon +1

I ran a 50 mile race last month, on 16.60RC on a 6x, following a course but not viewing the map much, and that was 2.3% an hour (I have some Python code that extracts the undocumented battery records from…

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0 mcbadger over 4 years ago in reply to Ɛpsilon

2750m of climb, that'll keep you busy! My times for 55-ish km with 1800-odd m of climb range from 7 hours to nearer 11 hours (that was one of the Lakeland Trails races and was a lot rougher underfoot than the Sussex ones). I'm doing that one again next month and hope to lop a bit off that.

0 C.sco over 4 years ago in reply to Ɛpsilon

Ɛpsilon said:
Weather will factor in - hopefully won't be too hot!!

I went out to do a quick 10k the other day, and only managed 2 miles before my body pretty much shut down. It was 112F (44.5C)

My heat acclimation score went through the roof though

0 Ɛpsilon over 4 years ago in reply to mcbadger

Yeah - it's amazing the variation. My 50miler in the Gower was over 12 hours as a bunch of us lost the path. Yet I did the B2C (40 miler) in 8 and a half hours odd in the midst of Storm Ciara!

As I live in the shadow of the Beacons, I've been training a hell of a lot with large climb runs - on training runs on weekends I can get 600-1000m climbs in 30K with careful planning (and a death wish!)...

0 Labronico over 4 years ago

On my 6s sapphire I usually between 7-8%/hr while redwing the map often and fiddling a lot with the watch.

Recently I forgot the HR strap and it seemed it drained more than keeping the ant+ connection.

It’s almost half the battery life written on Garmin specs, but in the end it’s probably only Apple to over deliver on battery life, anyone else is just bragging hypothetical values that don’t match real world scenarios.

0 Ɛpsilon over 4 years ago in reply to Labronico

I'd imagine the 6S of the three (having the smaller battery) to have higher values. 7-8% with the map isn't too bad I suppose - Track Up or North Up?

0 Labronico over 4 years ago in reply to Ɛpsilon

Track up

0 Ɛpsilon over 4 years ago in reply to Labronico

North up may help - that way with movement it doesn't redraw the whole map, just the arrow representing you. Does take some getting used to, to orientate yourself, so if you don't like you can balance it against battery usage

0 Ɛpsilon over 4 years ago

Today was about 4% per hour, so I'm now of the opinion cutting back on CIQ fields and the partial reset has helped. But I'll do a proper map test later this week.

0 7017726 over 4 years ago

A 13.4 km hike yesterday, over about 3.5 hours burned about 5% an hour. Routing is set for North up. Fenix 6S Pro, using Hike 2+ app. A very cool app, btw.

0 Ɛpsilon over 4 years ago in reply to 7017726

Thanks! Yeah, the person who does the Hike apps does some cool stuff. I believe Simple Walk is theirs as well... very good!