Battery and navigation

[isazi]

@lesley-mackenzie I would say it’s possible with the watch starting from 100% charge, but I have never done such a long activity with the S5P. Maybe @Brad_Olwin has tested it with a 10/15 hours activity. I have only estimates that I can have a look at.

[DMytro]

@isazi isn’t the watch rated for 20h in best GPS? Or e.g. how much quicker does the nav screen deplete battery on average?

I did 12h activity with my S9 yesterday with an HR belt and GPS only and it ate away about 45% of my battery, whilst having the backlight always on for 4-5 hours and nav screen for about 6 hours. Considering the watch is 3 years old, I’d say nav screen barely had an impact. That’s for S9 that is, I wonder if it’s much different from other models.

[Lesley Mackenzie]

@dmytro that’s great… I may start with it recoding and navufmgating and if it seems to be using up battery swirh to navigate only. Might be most sensible solution .I should have really tested this before now!!

[Lesley Mackenzie]

@isazi thanks

[Brad_Olwin]

@lesley-mackenzie said in Battery and navigation:

HI…does anyone know with Sunnto 5 peak will battery last for 14 hours if I use it to navigate fir that time and record a run?

Thanks

The two longest events that I did with the watch (I no longer have it) were 6-7h, one a trail run and one a ski tour. I used Navigation in the ski tour and it does not affect the battery (it shouldn’t). Battery life estimates were between 21 and 24h. So, 14h is absolutely no issue. Unlike Garmin watches that are redrawing maps the Suunto does not need to do this. I have not seen an impact using Navigation on any of the newer Suunto watches.

[Lesley Mackenzie]

@brad_olwin thankyou so much. So if I navigate a route and record it as a run it should last fine?..that’s a great relief!

[Brad_Olwin]

@lesley-mackenzie It should, start with a fully charged watch.

[Lesley Mackenzie]

@brad_olwin thsnks

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

My S5 is using approx 7% battery per hour. But I’m using two GNSS and the battery isn’t fresh (2019).

[Brad_Olwin]

@łukasz-szmigiel said in Battery and navigation:

My S5 is using approx 7% battery per hour. But I’m using two GNSS and the battery isn’t fresh (2019).

The OP is asking about the 5Peak, they are totally different watches.

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@brad_olwin you’re right, I didn’t notice. Sorry about that.

[Brad_Olwin]

@łukasz-szmigiel I was getting quite a bit more battery life from the 5Peak than the 5.

[ChrisA]

@lesley-mackenzie would be interesting, if the S5 Peak did the job

[ActiveJiggy]

To get max battery life for long all day activities I use the following settings

General settings - Power saving on
Connectivity settings - Airplane mode on
Activity settings - daily heartrate off
Sleep settings - sleep tracking off
Media controls off

Before recording an activity I also use a custom battery mode where I let the screen turn off during an activity

[Lesley Mackenzie]

@łukasz-szmigiel thanks anyway

[Lesley Mackenzie]

@chrisa after 12 hours it had 60 % battery left. It had tracked a gpx route for that time but I had forgotten to set it to record the run so not sure if that would have used up significantly more!

[Lesley Mackenzie]

@activejiggy thanks

[ChrisA]

@lesley-mackenzie ah I see - thanks for sharing your experience. I have no idea if that’s true but I would assume, that tracking would not have used up those remaining 60%.

[Brad_Olwin]

@chrisa I did extensive testing with a preproduction watch, as I stated below, on two long events I had 21h and 24h, respectively for predicted battery life. One was a long backcountry ski and the other a long run, both on Performance mode with OHR running.

[ChrisA]

@brad_olwin thanks that’s awesome. Will have a longer hike in August (around 12h) so everything should be fine .