19.18 - Solar edition - Battery life

Were you using any external sensors?

Solar probably made less than 1% of a positive contribution to battery life.

As has been discussed here before the lux-hours information is entertaining in the way a toy is entertaining, but in terms of knowing whether by being out in the sun how much the discharge of the battery has been reduced it is meaningless.

PubBike said:

Were you using any external sensors?

No

Ciao,
ho il fr955 solar da 2 anni ormai...
i consumi variano dal 3%/h con solo GPS al 5/6% ora se uso GPS dual band con schermata mappa, caricamento percorso da seguire, cardio al polso attivo e connesso con Bluetooth al telefono con notifiche attive.
Probabilmente puoi ottenere più durata della batteria disattivando Bluetooth, cardio al polso e impostando schermate di aggiornamento dati basse. La realtà è questa. Anche perché se compro uno sportwatch come questo e poi escludo metà delle funzioni, mi chiedo cosa mi serve. Comunque per le mie attività è sufficiente. Se ho bisogno di lunga durata ovviamente lo carico al 100% e avrò almeno 18/20 ore di autonomia con alta precisione GPS.

I would give the Suunto Vertical Solar a thought for the battery life and aesthetics of the watch if it weren't for the fact that I would lose electronic payments and some smart functions

Salut,

Je vois que c'est assez similaire avec toi alors, merci de ton retour.

J'ai essayé la Suunto Race, mais j'ai lâché après 2 mois car l'écosystème n'est pas aussi compatible que Garmin avec les fournisseurs tiers.

That's ok, be happy! 

I think you might want to turn more watch features off.  I did a 100 miler with my 955 Solar and it lasted to a 22 hour finish with around 30% battery remaining.  That was with almost zero solar since there was a strong weather system blowing through.  

Settings:

• Bluetooth - off
• Wi-fi - off
• Navigation - off
• Climbpro etc.- off
• touch screen - off
• Gesture - off
• Back light timeout - 4 seconds w/20% brightness
• data recording - smart
• Satellites - GPS only
• Heartrate - on 
• Alerts on (food reminders)

After a year use, I'll say the garmin manual estimates are accurate for me.
#1. I have o2 monitoring on for the night, so overnight drop is always 3%. 
#2. Day time drop is 2-4%, depending on interactions with the watch (e.g. paying with watch) and watch face changes (e.g. receiving message etc). The drop can be as low as 1% if I spent many hours outdoor.
#3. Jogging with ALL + multiband settings, about 5%/hour, or 1% drop per 12 min. Can be slightly lower if its very sunny.

So at least 2 metric is correct for me, (1) up to 20 days on smartwatch mode and (2) activity with ALL + multiband + wrist heart rate up to 22 hours. I only charge once every Sunday evening to about 85% and end with about 30+% before the next charge. That's good for 2x ~1hr jog and 1x 30min swim for a typical week. When I go on holidays overseas (up to 12 days) where I rarely able to jog, I don't even need to charge my watch at all and still come back with lots of battery juice to spare

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Con tutti i gps attivi, i vari sensori, bluetooth e utilizzando le mappe, quanto ti dura una carica da diciamo la notte prima?

Sono indeciso proprio tra il FR955 (non solar) e il Vertical. Il FR ha un sacco di feature e (credo) anche mappe migliori, ma non mi va l'idea di fare trekking e trovarmi a dovermi preoccupare della batteria

Tu parles de la Suunto Vertical ? (c'est pour être sur)

I will have to try without importing a GPX file and see if I can reach 31-34 hours as stated on their website.