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Battery life implication of sensor pool?

peteb478
over 5 years ago

I mainly ride my road bike but also have a mountain bike. They both have speed sensors and so both are paired. Obviously, only one is connected at a time depending on which bike I'm riding.

Is there a hit to the battery life of the Edge considering it's continually searching for the "other" speed sensor? Is it worthwhile disabling the MTB speed sensor except for when I'm riding that bike, given that 99% of my riding is on the other bike?

Thanks

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    Why do you think the device is searching continuously for other sensors - when already one of a kind is paired? On what is this assumption based?

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Peter454

    OK, that was maybe a bad example. How about when I'm out on my MTB and the Edge is searching for the road bike power meter and Varia radar?

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to peteb478

    The Edge only searches for additional sensors for 2 minutes after starting the timer. After that period it stops searching for additional sensors.

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    What exactly is searching and why would it consume energy?  The way I figure it, the 830's receiver is listening to all signals it receives from anything in range, deciding what's relevant, and then forwarding those in use for recording .  It decides what's relevant and in use based on what's in the sensor pool and active.  The size of the sensor pool is not a factor in energy consumption.