What's your experience about Battery Life?

Hello,

For those who have used Edge 1050 for a few weeks, what's your experience and battery duration during your rides? Specifically for those riders using "Demanding" resources from the Edge such as: Power, Hearth Rate, Shift (sram rear derailleur or shimano Di2), Varia radar turned on, Navigation On (following a route), Multiband GPS, screen brightness auto adjust and Live Track enabled?

Theoretically it should last 20 hours, but not sure if that's accurate after having everything enabled? Does it last less than 20 hours?

I am planning to do my longest ride of 2024 in December 360km/223mi & 4600m/15000ft elevation in a single activity. I did the same ride in December 2022 and it took me 16 hours (12hours movement), started 3am and rode all the day (very sunny day with high temperatures close to 44 C /110 F) and finished around 7pm in the same day. This year I plan to do it a bit faster, maybe finish in 14 or 15 hours, but despite that, battery life still a concern for me.

I use to do Gran Fondos (Endurance) rides of 5-7hours but that's not a problem for Edge 1050 battery. Actually I use Edge 1040, and just received my brand new Edge 1050 and was thinking about my December's longest ride and wanted to see what's the feedback of riders who have had this device for some time. This topic worries me a bit. If you think, based on your experience, that the Edge 1050 would last for at least 15 hours (demanding mode using all the aforementioned sensors and featureS), please let me know. Otherwise, I might return my Edge 1050 and keep my 1040 and wait while Garmin releases Edge 1050 Solar (but not sure if the price difference would worth for a single ride in Dec).

Thanks.

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0 Pdlpsher 2 months ago in reply to 9668784

Does enabling battery saver do anything to the screen brightness?

0 colin-campbell 2 months ago in reply to Pdlpsher

You haven't been reading about battery saver - it turns the screen completely off after a few seconds. The screen come back on when you stop, or if you're navigating, when there's a direction you need to be aware of. That's why it can make the 1050's battery last up to 60 hours.

0 marconazzi 2 months ago in reply to 9668784

With display allways on, power meter, sram axs, iPhone, hr… more ore less 16 hours… not bad

0 ad9d0b5c458044e99482a3990ad196e1 2 months ago

Firmware idea: auto mode, but instead of locking out the slider, the user can still bump the brightness up/down and remembers the user's preferred brightness vs ambient light sensor mappings (I think smartphones do this or similar)

0 mcinner1 2 months ago in reply to ad9d0b5c458044e99482a3990ad196e1

ad9d0b5c458044e99482a3990ad196e1 said:
Firmware idea: auto mode, but instead of locking out the slider, the user can still bump the brightness up/down

My observation on my Edge 1050:
the slider is not locked in auto mode. The user can make a setting for shadows, for example, and the Auto mode then adjusts accordingly. However, the Edge does not remember this setting when you switch it on again or exit auto mode.

0 nghpmc 2 months ago

No Varia for my part, but otherwise like your “setup” .

I found on a just sub 2 hour ride , that it goes 4-5 percent down per hour .

0 colin-campbell 2 months ago in reply to nghpmc

So that's approximately 20 hour battery life, which is what Garmin predicts.

I'm getting considerably longer life, into the 30+ hour range, with Rally power pedals and Campy EPS shifting sensors. I have my iPhone connected. Not using my HRM currently, and I've only used navigation on one ride since getting the unit.

0 mcinner1 2 months ago in reply to colin-campbell

colin-campbell said:
I'm getting considerably longer life, into the 30+ hour range

You didn't tell us the most important thing: with which backlight setting?

0 donnay.jf 2 months ago

I charged it to 100% and then rode 360km in 15 hours. 260km/9h45 on a road bike (varia radar, axs force, heart, quarq) 100km/4h30 on a mountain bike (eagle axs, heart, quarq, remote) climbpro, auto light on screen, training suggestion enabled as well as connect iq applications and the phone always connected, with all functions and notifications enabled (live track, messenger, whatsapp....) and sometimes navigation. After 19:30 there is 20% charge left.

0 colin-campbell 2 months ago in reply to mcinner1

Sorry, I'm using Auto Brightness. I consider it too bright, since I think I can detect lighting when I'm riding during daylight hours. I tried disabling Auto, and found that the default backlight setting was at 50%. I lowered this to 30%, then enabled Auto again, but I don't think this had any effect. When I swipe down from the start screen, the slider is very nearly all the way to the left. I've changed it to be all the way left, and I'll see if that makes my screen any darker.