Suunto Race 2 General Discussion

Ars Vitae

@Tomas5 Could you tell if the charger magnet is strong? Does the charger come off easily when you lift the watch or not?

safari

@Ars-Vitae
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpEoe4npYZM
This video at 2:18 will give you an idea. There is a third magnetic direction.

Ars Vitae

@safari Thanks. The charger is improved. But the video also reveals a decline in GPS accuracy, which is a shame.

safari

@Ars-Vitae
I use vertical solar.
Yesterday, I did my first extreme camping trip since the last FW.
Even though I was on the road (steep mountain on my right, cliff on my left), they told me I was off-route That was hilarious. There’s no other way, and this route was drawn with the Suunto app.
For reliability, I’ve also shared the route video and image.

https://maps.suunto.com/move/bilal10/68c6d107ede0761cd988f37a

Tomas5

@Ars-Vitae it is strong in my opinion.

Tomas5

@Ars-Vitae i have two activities only yet. Accuracy looks good. There are some few places where it is not 100% accurate but in most of track you can see clearly on which side of road i was riding/walking. I will see later when hiking under trees or some other harder conditions.
This is worst part i found on todays 16km ride.

Other than that it looks just fine. I see few other places where not exact but still very good.

Ars Vitae

@safari @Tomas5 Thanks guys:) I can live with that little inaccuracies on my SV but for the new one I expect something more.

Ars Vitae

Has anyone checked the discrepancies between the distances and elevations planned in the Suunto app and the actual distances and elevations recorded on the watch? They are noticeable on SV, I am curious how it looks in the case of the new device.

sky-runner

@Ars-Vitae Suunto App planned route distances and elevation gains (ascent values) have always been quite inaccurate for me compared to Race S and Race. Distances are typically 3-5% short. Ascent can easily be 10-20% off, typically on the low side but I’ve seen cases when estimated ascent was 15-20% more than actual. I am pretty sure the app map data is inaccurate and not the watches. The situation was similar when I owned Garmin by the way. However I should mention that when I plan a route in Strava, the estimated ascent is surprisingly accurate compared to Suunto or Garmin. I think that is because they improved their elevation data with data from real activities.

Ars Vitae

@sky-runner Thanks, you’re right, it’s hard to blame the watch for that, and now that I think about it, I have similarly good results with planning on Strava or Komoot, although the distance on the map is always shorter than in reality.