real life battery usage report

This is not a question, but an experience report, feel free to add your experience.

I have an Instinct2 Solar and I just came back from my first multi day outing with the watch. Because there are a gazillion questions and posts regarding the battery here a report about how the battery  performed on my outing.

  • Wed. evening before going to bed I've recharged the watch to 100%
  • Thursday morning started a navigation activity and went on a motorbike ride
    • Time 3:30:19
    • Elapsed Time 4:45:19
    • paused the activity during longer breaks
    • GPS only
    • screen always in the map view
  • Friday & Saturday went on a hike every day navigating along prepared routes
    • Fri Time 4:44:28
    • Fri Elapsed Time 5:14:06
    • Sat Time 5:39:00
    • Sat Elapsed Time 6:15:55
    • paused the activity during longer breaks
    • GPS + Galileo
    • I tried to switch the screen back to the watchface when the route was clear
  • Sunday at noon started the journey back on the motorbike using the same route for navigation backward
    • Time 3:48:45
    • Elapsed Time 4:28:52
    • paused the activity during longer breaks
    • GPS only
    • screen always in the map view
After all that I had 22% battery left.
Here the battery graph over 7 days:
More details:
  • I've done also two swimming activities, but only for a couple of minutes to try it, so probably not worthwhile  mentioning
  • There was a lot of sun, here the details

  • Pulse Ox off
  • Heart Rate measurement on 24h
  • Bluetooth connection with the phone on 24h
  • 2x health snapshot

Draw your conclusions yourself, but I think that are good values and I'm pretty happy to have the watch.