Suunto 9 Baro total ascent vs. other watches
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@sky-runner
I always wonder how the organizers measure the vertical gain? Did they use a watch, too? Or is this based on a specific planning tool with topo maps? obviously all devices measured less ascent⊠that sounds a bit suspiciousthe future should be like this: 2 independent sensors that measure the pressure and communicate to find the average, supervised by a 3rd sensor and corrected by GPS FusedAlti if required
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@dimitrios-kanellopoulos Good to hear. DCRainmaker also mentioned he received a firmware update to improve the open water swimming. So this upcoming update is already rich in content. When can we expect it?
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@patrick-löffler typically Suunto releases SW update at fall
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@dimitrios-kanellopoulos Thanks. I knew you would answer that but hoped for e.g. 2nd September. I am super excited about that one. Looking forward to the better total ascent algo and hopefully a fix for the body resources.
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@dimitrios-kanellopoulos will this new algo bring some update on quick elevation change? personally I see calculation of elevation gain (finding local minimal/maximal elevation) OK for walking/slow running, but for fast cycling on âwavyâ roads/trails it cuts out a lot. also vertical speed is kinda delayed and averaged too much for me.
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@dombo I think so.
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@dimitrios-kanellopoulos is the algo update valid for baro-enabled devices only or non-baro as well?
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@Ćukasz-szmigiel only baro
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@dombo yes
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@dimitrios-kanellopoulos perfect! I can not wait for new FW, even it will take some weeks for me to recover from injury to test it
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Suunto World Vertical Week is nearâŠ
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@sky-runner Good list, interesting that the Sony chip is common to all under-reporting. As @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said there are improvements for gain/loss coming.
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@dimitrios-kanellopoulos Glad to hear that and a strong reason to consider a Suunto watch again.
Now, while we are there, please allow first day of week to be changed from the locale default too.
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@freeheeler I donât know, but this is an established race with 23 years of history. The way Iâve done that in the past myself is that I loaded an elevation graph, zoomed to it, and manually added ascent from all climbs. That takes time but produces the most accurate result. That requires an accurate altimeter and a calm weather without a strong wind when recording the run.
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@sky-runner Agreed, Iâd love to manually be able to change mine to a Monday. Not particularly a big deal but would be nice!
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@dombo it is even worse when downhill skiing.
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@sky-runner first day of the week as a setting is now being tested on Android alpha. So that will come in eta 1 month in beta.
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@dimitrios-kanellopoulos Perfect! Any plans to release S9P with a larger screen and larger battery? Although I understand you arenât supposed to share that kind of information. But that is a watch Iâd buy in a heartbeat if it has the two fixes mentioned above.
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@sky-runner even if I knew I cannot answer that.
I know that Fenix 7 comes January most probably though.
I am sure that in 1y -2 -3y we will see another good model from suunto if I judge from prev releases.
Spartan 2016 , s9 2018 , s9P 2021, then maybe 2023?
If we are talking about something new.
But I think now itâs Garminâs turn over a flagship.
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Here is 24x41.5m (last rep was a little higher to reach 1k up) .
No stopping , storm coming in etc.
With the old algo due to 41m it would have been around 940m
The algo will come in for the s9p in the next release.