solar charging

Tami999

About solar… how it is safe to have long time on sun? I was today on trip, gained a lot of sunny from direct lighting, and my watch was pretty hot. How long its safe to expose watch on direct sun? I know its not recommended, but does was there someone that damaged watch by that?

sartoric

@Tami999
Well, overheating electronics it’s never a good thing.
That said there are operating temperature that should be taken in consideration.

freeheeler

@Tami999
I know people who take their watches to the sauna…

A Former User

@riccardo88ve today I got some trail riding in with plenty of sunshine. 3 rings.

thanasis

@Todd-Danielczyk what strap is that one ?? Seems interesting

A Former User

@thanasis it’s a knock off version of the Apple Ultra ocean.

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Super comfy and keeps the Vertical tight enough to get good HR readings.

riccardo88ve

@freeheeler Thank you, then, in my opinion, my vertical has some problems… it is not possible that in full sun only 2 circles are filled. today I contact Suunto support and let’s see what they say. thanks

Brad_Olwin

@riccardo88ve May be true, here is last week for mine, no issues. I would contact support.

riccardo88ve

@Brad_Olwin At what level of charge was your vertical?

Brad_Olwin

@riccardo88ve not sure but probably 60-70%

riccardo88ve

Hello everyone, in the end I sent the vertical to a service center… the whole display was replaced … actually the panel had problems… now everything works perfectly.

A Former User

@riccardo88ve Thank you very much for the follow up and good to hear your Vertical is now working correctly after the repair!

Tami999

Happened to me today and yesterday. In full sun I have 2/3 rings, not 3/3 like i had in even sunny days than today. Direct sun 29’C, 0 clouds. I’ll probably go like riccardo with that I guess :P. Soft reset doesnt help.

Tami999

I punched softly watch and so far it works again.

Tieutieu

I wonder If miss something…
I don’t really use solar charging widget since new UI, because SV battery is so huge that I don’t really care.
But lately I wanted to see how it collected sun again, during a bike ride…
I was surprise to see that widget was totally empty whereas it was very sunny. I then notice that widget says that « solar charging is in sleep mode ».
Never saw that before or read about it.
Any idea ? For now solar charging is not working anymore.

sartoric

@Tieutieu
It’s always in IDLE status when there is no sufficient light.

But in your case it could be stuck, did you try a soft reset ?

Tieutieu

@sartoric OK thanks for your answer I didn’t know that. I try a soft reset.
When you mean stuck, does that means that widget is stucked ? or solar charging and widget are stucked ?

sartoric

@Tieutieu said in solar charging:

When you mean stuck, does that means that widget is stucked ? or solar charging and widget are stucked ?

maybe both, who knows

Tieutieu

@sartoric I just did a soft reset. It’s full sun out there. Still “sleep mode displayed”, not indication of solar charging.
I’ll wait for next update.

Tami999

@Tieutieu said in solar charging:

@sartoric I just did a soft reset. It’s full sun out there. Still “sleep mode displayed”, not indication of solar charging.
I’ll wait for next update.

Maybe try give it a soft slap. For me worked and since than it works like before. I covered screen and punched it softly on my leg with soft little power

@Brad_Olwin said in solar charging:

@riccardo88ve May be true, here is last week for mine, no issues. I would contact support.

Brad, what’s that black version of Athletic 5? Never seen. Its Suunto Staff only or something?