Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!

Maryn

@florin2528 said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

less accurate than Ambit2

By the way, if you say that Ambit 2 has better gps then is highly likely that you are running an old software

Brad_Olwin

@florin2528 said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

from my side after more than 1.4k km with S9 Baro.

cons:

sleep tracking, was not working properly. Taking movie watching and reading as sleeping. Garmin fenix5 didn’t do that. I’m not using it at all
Florin

This does not happen for me. If you have your normal sleep hours set and autoDnD set I never get sleep counted when reading or watching a movie. If you do not have sleep hours set it might be possible.

zvonejan

@florin2528 said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

you can’t see the time(hour) during an activity

double tap or bottom button (2 sec)

isazi

Doing an alpine climbing tour this week. The altimeter of the S9b is amazing, I have been sitting on a couple of summits with the watch agreeing with the map, same for huts. On the same group a Fenix 5s (or maybe 6s, but looks more a 5s to me) user got readings far by even 100 meters. And being this the first alpine tour I did with the S9, I’m very very happy.

Bogdan1921

@isazi

I can confirm this. Also, last week I was one day for 9 hours on a hiking tour. When I’ve arrived at the peak of the mountain, the wrote altitude of the peak was exactly the same with the altitude from the watch and I was really impressed

Maryn

@isazi what gps system did you use ? Beidou?

isazi

@Maryn since it became available, I’m always using GPS+Beidou. Maybe GPS alone would be enough, but I’ve had good results with this setup so far and I’m not changing it for now.

lexterm77

@isazi said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

@Maryn since it became available, I’m always using GPS+Beidou. Maybe GPS alone would be enough, but I’ve had good results with this setup so far and I’m not changing it for now.

I used gps+beidou and tracks were wobbly like a drunk going home on St. Patrick’s day. I turned off and use gpu only and tracks became clear.

@lexterm77 my experience is following: the best results I get, when I am waiting a few minutes when I got GPS conformation… I have always something to do… shoes etc. I think more satellites will connect then. I also try to connect in free areas and not in the woods. I think these start conditions are leading to best gps, even if you are afterwards in the woods… only connecting fast in not so free areas is not so good… Think this is also not Suunto specific…

Especially do this, if I am following in mountains or in the woods. Not if so much when I am running in flat free areas…

@Brad_Olwin @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos right?

lexterm77

@mountainChris

My experience with trail running or hiking along a side of a river dam in heavily wooded area is best with gps only, any other combination reveals worse results as eastern sky is obscured. I always wait for gps lock, and I always start my hike on same stone and finish it to have a reference. I don’t know why is wobbly when it connects to more satellites. My ascent descent don’t match either if i use combination of gps-s, where gps only matches within 1m.

@lexterm77 Do you have a statistic behind it? Could be also random…

I think there is a difference waiting for gps lock and waiting after gps lock further a few minutes if you plan running in woods. And also connecting first in free areas… I think I read this somewhere. Also just my feeling with runs…

lexterm77

@mountainChris

I’ve figured it out, its nothing to do with a watch.

florin2528

@zvonejan nice, thank you. I will try it.

florin2528

Anyone knows how to get altitude during Trail Running?

sartoric

@florin2528
What do you mean for “get altitude” ?
In the results ? Watch ?

cosme.costa

@florin2528 said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

Anyone knows how to get altitude during Trail Running?

If you mean know the altitude during the run, I do not know with the standard sportmode but I use a custom sportmode where one of my fields is the altitude.

florin2528

@cosmecosta
I was with standard trail running mode, which fits my 95% of the needs.
thanks,
Florin

florin2528

@sartoric during trail running to show on the watch the altitude at which you are.
I had a run into the mountains, and after 2300 m i started to feel a little dizzy and I wanted to see what’s the altitude. my colleague with ambit 2, told me in seconds, but could not find it on my S9B.

florin2528

another good feature that I’m thinking of, is automatic lock after 1-2 minutes after starting an exercise.
I lost a couple of good runs because of non intentionally pushing the top button.

Mff73

@florin2528 said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

@sartoric during trail running to show on the watch the altitude at which you are.
I had a run into the mountains, and after 2300 m i started to feel a little dizzy and I wanted to see what’s the altitude. my colleague with ambit 2, told me in seconds, but could not find it on my S9B.

Either you can create your own Trail running mode, with all the fields of data you want (including altitude), either to use the trail running mountain mode already in your watch, and altitude is on the altitude graph screen.