SUUNTO RACE. Real battery life as sports watch.
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@Brad_Olwin Do you now how much longer a Race or Race S battery will run if you use a belt instead of OHR?
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@VoiGAS No, my battery life estimates using the belt on longer activities show typically at the stated spec or greater. So for me using a belt and on maps some of the time I know I will get at least the stated spec. On some longer trail runs with the Vertical Solar my battery estimates have been 85-92h.
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@Inge-Nallsson said in SUUNTO RACE. Real battery life as sports watch.:
In expensive Sweden the Suunto belt (including pod) was a mere ca 70 $US.
I think that is similar to the price in Germany, 80 € with pod (and 40 € for a replacement belt without pod). Recently, it was 60 € and 30 € on suunto.com – just before belts regained popularity because of ZoneSense.
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Update
Days since last charge: 21 (3 weeks)
Remaining Batt: 27%
GPS use: 12h45m
Activity without GPS: 2hAwesome
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@Luis-Andés-Olmedo out of curiosity, how long did you manage to get it run?
I’ve had ohr and sleep tracking turned on and I needed to charge it today. It’s been 8 days and 20h.
Today after the watch has charged to 100% I’m turning ohr and sleep tracking off. -
@Arju-Ambin said in SUUNTO RACE. Real battery life as sports watch.:
@Luis-Andés-Olmedo out of curiosity, how long did you manage to get it run?
I’ve had ohr and sleep tracking turned on and I needed to charge it today. It’s been 8 days and 20h.
Today after the watch has charged to 100% I’m turning ohr and sleep tracking off.I charged it two days later with two hours more of GPS (one trail running activity using map and navigation). Battery was at 2%.
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@Luis-Andés-Olmedo that’s awesome! I’ve turned of 24/7 measurements and will keep my eyes on battery life according to my usage. Will turn on ohr when exercising to make it as realistic as possible. At some point I want to test with a Suunto hr belt. That’ll wait for the future. Awesome to hear your experience and stats and thank you for sharing!
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@Arju-Ambin you don’t need to turn on OHR when exercising if 24/7 HR is disabled. It will come on automatically.
You can turn OHR off if you want but by default it is on.
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@Audaxjoe Awesome! That makes sense! Will test it out during workout tomorrow. Thanks for the heads-up.
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@Audaxjoe said in SUUNTO RACE. Real battery life as sports watch.:
@Arju-Ambin you don’t need to turn on OHR when exercising if 24/7 HR is disabled. It will come on automatically.
Correct! that is my config: 24/7 OHR Off. The OHR automatically turns on when I start an activity.
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Hi, interesting Post.
I thought about turning 24/7 HR Off, but did not done it.
Here are my Statistics:
I wear the Watch 24/7
Optical HR: 24/7 on
Display: raise to wake totaly on and in the night raise to wake Off.
Activities: around 7-8hours a week, 5 Hours with gps and with hr band or hr Belt.
Watch is configurated to get notifications from smartphone.I have to charge my Suunto Race Every 7-8 days.
Would you say that is normal battery Life?With the battery Life in activities i am realy happy. For the Daily life, i would Like to get a bit more time between charging cycles.
