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Battery Test

TheFitnessGuru
over 3 years ago

Hey everyone, I did a short ride yesterday, only about three-ish hours. While I had some issues with a few things and had to start and stop and called Garmin tech-support about an issue I was having with the map, one thing I was incredibly impressed by what is the battery. I would like to do a full-blown battery test on a longer ride today. Besides the obvious, such as running a course with navigation, enhanced GPS settings, and setting the back light to max and never turning off can anyone suggest more ways I can make this thing consume more battery than I already thought of.

Obviously during the day I don’t need the screen to be bright, or to turn off the auto shut off for the back light. But I’m going to probably run them at full anyway just for the testing purposes. Because I have too much time on my hands obviously lol.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I’d just do normal and see how it is. Max screen brightness without shut off is probably going to not be good but is it realistic.  Apart from shorter rides I’ve now done both an 85 mile and 125 mile with multiple sensors and navigation with turn notifications on. GPS was the second setting (not the max) The 125 mile was nearly 8 hours total with 2 stops (where I just left it turned on). With that I started about 98% and by the end of the ride it was 83%. Give or take that is around the 49 hours the battery page gives me on a full charge  

    I’ve got to admit I’m certainly impressed with the battery life. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to iheathcock

    I live in New York City, and while I don’t always ride through Manhattan, when I do, or even in downtown Brooklyn and other areas where there were a lot of buildings that create a sort of “skyscraper tunnel“ I have always set my GPS on max, because sometimes if I don’t, I lose signal in places like that, also riding under elevated trains, or under expressways. I find that setting the GPS to max just works better for me cycling in the city. I think Garmin tech-support once every told me that was the case as well, a few years ago, but I’m not 100% sure about that. 

    I do agree with you, that turning up the back light, or disengaging the auto shut off for the back light is probably just a silly idea.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Or you can use the burn rate iq app. When I have navigation, an HRM, a powertap, a CORE sensor, a varia 510, max brightness screen and no solar input, burn rate is between 15-16% per hour 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to cycleanalyze

    Clearly max screen brightness is the worst thing you can do for battery life. Multiple sensors makes little difference.  I’m running 4 Ant+, and 1 BLE to the phone. Navigation now seems to have little effect even with turn notifications.  The big difference is I’m letting the screen go off and it is for most of my ride and I’m loosing 15% over 7 hours, not 1