Instinct Solar Take Forever to Charge on Charger?

My Fenix 6, 6X and Delta all charge from 20% to 100% in a couple hours. Instinct solar tactical arrived about 40% charged but took EIGHT HOURS to charge to 100% on same charger and cable.

Wondering if others experience same.

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che66 over 4 years ago +4

I had this problem until I changed to the cable that came with my Instinct. This solved it for me. Fenix cable took forever!
Fedde over 4 years ago +1

Try cleaning your contact points on the watch
trux over 4 years ago in reply to che66 +1

Could be also just due to a dirty or oxydated contacts on the old cable.

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0 Casper Felíx over 4 years ago

no, definitely not that long. It is slow, but I can usually go from about 20 to 100 in an hour or two. You might try putting it on a higher output charger brick.

0 Fedde over 4 years ago

Try cleaning your contact points on the watch

0 1517701 over 4 years ago

Mine charges pretty slow too.

0 che66 over 4 years ago

I had this problem until I changed to the cable that came with my Instinct. This solved it for me. Fenix cable took forever!

0 TomFL12 over 4 years ago

Slow charging when using a generic USB wall plug, significantly quicker using USB3 on PC.

Will try at some point with my 1+ Dash charger and see how that fares.

0 che66 over 4 years ago in reply to TomFL12

I charge mine now using a wall plug and the supplied instinct cable and it charges as expected. Initially I used a fenix 5 cable and it took hours to charge. The supplied cable clips in much more securely. Also tried a Venu cable and it was taking hours as well.

0 Pseudo-fed over 4 years ago in reply to che66

Thanks. Will try Instinct cable I guess. Brand new watch and 1st charge. I have 3 other curren gen Garmin watches, so generally use same cable. Connects solidly, but maybe there is something different about the cable.

0 1517701 over 4 years ago in reply to che66

Yeah thanks, I was charging it with my old VA4 cable. Definitely seems to charge faster with the Instinct cable. I assumed since the plug was the same they were interchangeable!

0 che66 over 4 years ago in reply to 1517701

Me too! They look identical but must differ slightly.

0 trux over 4 years ago in reply to che66

Could be also just due to a dirty or oxydated contacts on the old cable.