Suunto 9 Peak maximum battery life

isazi

@spree indeed for the 9B 24/25 hours is with GPS only. The 9P with GPS only gets closer to 29/30.

babychai

@isazi Ah i see. i did turn on S+ Features
Although my notification is turned on but i did not receive any notification because i already turned off my mobile phone Bluetooth.

Besides that, I also use setting below for my 3 hours hike:

Autolap: Off
GPS System: GPS+QZSS+GLONASS
Backlight: Off
Brightness: Medium
Standby: Off
Raise to wake: Off

Since battery consumption is not linear, next time i will try again for the longer hike.

Thanks everyone for the reply and provide very useful informations.

babychai

@spree said in Suunto 9 Peak maximum battery life:

using the “display timeout” battery saving feature will definitely increase battery life significantly

Is there any way to turn on “display timeout” without using Custom setting threre?

Brad_Olwin

@babychai No, you must set up a custom battery setting to use display timeout.

babychai

@brad_olwin Alright, got it. thanks.

loopylou72

@babychai
Hi can you set a custom battery mode on the Peak 9? The manual says you can but I read somewhere else that you can only do it on the 9 and I can’t see an option in the app. Thanks!

loopylou72

@Brad_Olwin
Hi can you set a custom battery mode on the Peak 9? The manual says you can but I read somewhere else that you can only do it on the 9 and I can’t see an option in the app. Thanks!

sartoric

@loopylou72
There’s no need to add multiple replies, to quote multiple people

@loopylou72 said in Suunto 9 Peak maximum battery life:

The manual says you can

It’s your best friend, so, if it says you can … I bet you can
https://www.suunto.com/Support/Product-support/suunto_9_peak/suunto_9_peak/features/recording-an-exercise/#1.4

surfboomerang

@loopylou72 I can confirm that this is possible. Same options as for the S9B.
Custom battery mode is set in the watch. Not in the app.

loopylou72

@sartoric
yep I replied to the wrong person but couldn’t delete my first comment as I am a ‘new user’

loopylou72

@surfboomerang thanks I found it

Brad_Olwin

@loopylou72 Sorry, I was out using my Suunto and had no internet access for a couple days.

loopylou72

@Brad_Olwin looks nice! My watch died on my 30hr run. I had changed the settings but still had the best GPS. For future reference, if using the ‘good’ GPS what is the impact of this on distance/pace accuracy?

babychai

@loopylou72 are you using Best GPS to achieve 30 hours? What is your watch settings?

loopylou72

@babychai
Yes best gps
Screen saver on
Screen brightness low
I had turned autolap off but in the race it was on, I think because I changed the settings in the normal battery mode and later switched to manual battery to enable the screen saver/screen time-out not realising this would affect the general settings I’d set up so this may have drained more battery… the watch suggested switching to endurance mode as it ran low but still died. If I’d just used endurance mode I was worried it would affect my other data ie pace, distance, elevation?

babychai

@loopylou72 not sure about the elevation but the distance will show much much longer distance

Brad_Olwin

@loopylou72 Endurance mode affects pace a bit but not enough to worry about in a 30h race. Autolap definitely reduces battery life. I doubt I can get 30h in Performance mode even using the custom settings you did. I would switch to Endurance mode or start out that way. I have a ~30h race coming up and I will use Endurance mode on the S9P. Endurance will not affect distance much if at all due to FusedTrack, which is amazing.

loopylou72

@Brad_Olwin I got 30hrs with my suunto 9 baro in a different race but slightly different settings, could turn screen save on in the activity abd auto laps off. Adding a lot of extra distance does make a difference if you are aiming for a particular average pace… I’ll try endurance mode in training and see how much it affects other data!

loopylou72

@Brad_Olwin I ran 5km with endurance mode and the GPS line on strava cut all the curves and gave me PRs I hadn’t run. I wouldn’t want this in a race! However the overall distance/time seemed correct… needs more testing on longer runs I have done before ot compare.

babychai

@loopylou72 Thanks for sharing your result. I think this is Opportunity Cost that we need to expect when we choose lesser accuracy mode. If still able to maintain distance, elevation and pace similar with Performance mode this is really super amazing in my opinion.