Watch unusable in wind

Niclas Brundell

I love my vertical. But it’s completely unusable for elevation data if it’s windy. I know barometer can be sensitive. But I’ve never seen a watch flip out so easily from it. Often hundreds of meters extra of it’s a windy ridge. There has to be some way to error correct with gps data to see that a person isn’t gaining hundreds of meters extra

stromdiddily

@Niclas-Brundell said in Watch unusable in wind:

I love my vertical. But it’s completely unusable for elevation data if it’s windy. I know barometer can be sensitive. But I’ve never seen a watch flip out so easily from it. Often hundreds of meters extra of it’s a windy ridge. There has to be some way to error correct with gps data to see that a person isn’t gaining hundreds of meters extra

I’d send logs in to support. I haven’t seen this with my Vertical or Race and it’s windy ALWAYS where I live

larrybbaker

Had mine since release day. Been out in all kinds of weather and many different locations. Can’t say I have seen this. Are you sure your sensor is not obstructed by any dust/debris.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

Clean the sensor. With water.

sebchastang

From my experience, I have also noticed a wrong elevation measurement one or two times only when wind is very strong ( about 80 km/h and more).
Most of the time (99.9%) elevation is perfectly accurate.

Tieutieu

SV intensively used since launch also, in all weather conditions including strong wind, cold, rain…
Never had any issue with altitude accuracy.

Ján Martinkovič

@Niclas-Brundell
The same with suunto race. Wind 80km/h.

maszop

@Niclas-Brundell Suunto watches, at least from 9PP are practically useless in strong wind. Overstated elevation by at least a few hundred, and very often over 1000m.

Of course, you can write here and there on the forum, but for years everyone has been pretending that there is no problem.

ChrisA

@maszop said in Watch unusable in wind:

@Niclas-Brundell Suunto watches, at least from 9PP are practically useless in strong wind. Overstated elevation by at least a few hundred, and very often over 1000m.

Of course, you can write here and there on the forum, but for years everyone has been pretending that there is no problem.

Uh… I strongly doubt that people are “pretending” things here. From what I experienced in this forum for years now (vs others and Reddit) is that you’ll get a ton of objective and honest experiences here. It’s inherent to user forums that there is a vast majority of users without any problems, who will never post there (because there’s just no reason for it and nobody is interested in that your watch just works as advertised) and so there will always be the impression, that there must be a lot of problems with a product, since one will only see those posted. And of course that does not mean everything is ok and it’s completely possible your altimeter does not work as expected

maszop

@ChrisA Don’t start this nonsense again.
“Problem, it doesn’t exist, or problem with only my altimeter.”
Bullshit. Three different watches, and the problem is repeatable.

In how many threads on the forum is the same pretending that the problem doesn’t exist? Even here you have a perfect example.

soisan

@maszop “Nonsense”, “Bullshit”, nice form of communication…

maszop

@soisan These answers here are exactly what I called by their name. Only dressed up in nicer words.

For years, the same ridiculous answers to the same problem.

Brad_Olwin

@maszop As I have responded to you before, severe wind does affect my altitude but it has to be Strong!! This is not often so I find my useable at high altitudes > 3800 m. I have reported the issue to Suunto and I know they have or are looking into it. The Race and Vertical are far better than the 9PP.

maszop

@Brad_Olwin I wrote to you several times that it is not about the altitude measurements themselves (they are quite accurate even in strong winds), but their pulsation, which sometimes causes the totals of ascents and descents to be even several times overstated.

To observe this, quite small mountains are enough.