SUUNTO RACE. Real battery life as sports watch.

Brad_Olwin

@VoiGAS No, my battery life estimates using the belt on longer activities show typically at the stated spec or greater. So for me using a belt and on maps some of the time I know I will get at least the stated spec. On some longer trail runs with the Vertical Solar my battery estimates have been 85-92h.

Mauerwegler

@Inge-Nallsson said in SUUNTO RACE. Real battery life as sports watch.:

In expensive Sweden the Suunto belt (including pod) was a mere ca 70 $US.

I think that is similar to the price in Germany, 80 € with pod (and 40 € for a replacement belt without pod). Recently, it was 60 € and 30 € on suunto.com – just before belts regained popularity because of ZoneSense.

Luis Andés Olmedo

Update

Days since last charge: 21 (3 weeks)
Remaining Batt: 27%
GPS use: 12h45m
Activity without GPS: 2h

Awesome

Arju Ambin

@Luis-Andés-Olmedo out of curiosity, how long did you manage to get it run?
I’ve had ohr and sleep tracking turned on and I needed to charge it today. It’s been 8 days and 20h.
Today after the watch has charged to 100% I’m turning ohr and sleep tracking off.

Luis Andés Olmedo

@Arju-Ambin said in SUUNTO RACE. Real battery life as sports watch.:

@Luis-Andés-Olmedo out of curiosity, how long did you manage to get it run?
I’ve had ohr and sleep tracking turned on and I needed to charge it today. It’s been 8 days and 20h.
Today after the watch has charged to 100% I’m turning ohr and sleep tracking off.

I charged it two days later with two hours more of GPS (one trail running activity using map and navigation). Battery was at 2%.

Arju Ambin

@Luis-Andés-Olmedo that’s awesome! I’ve turned of 24/7 measurements and will keep my eyes on battery life according to my usage. Will turn on ohr when exercising to make it as realistic as possible. At some point I want to test with a Suunto hr belt. That’ll wait for the future. Awesome to hear your experience and stats and thank you for sharing!

Audaxjoe

@Arju-Ambin you don’t need to turn on OHR when exercising if 24/7 HR is disabled. It will come on automatically.

You can turn OHR off if you want but by default it is on.

Arju Ambin

@Audaxjoe Awesome! That makes sense! Will test it out during workout tomorrow. Thanks for the heads-up.

Luis Andés Olmedo

@Audaxjoe said in SUUNTO RACE. Real battery life as sports watch.:

@Arju-Ambin you don’t need to turn on OHR when exercising if 24/7 HR is disabled. It will come on automatically.

Correct! that is my config: 24/7 OHR Off. The OHR automatically turns on when I start an activity.

Sebastian Wagner 0

Hi, interesting Post.
I thought about turning 24/7 HR Off, but did not done it.
Here are my Statistics:
I wear the Watch 24/7
Optical HR: 24/7 on
Display: raise to wake totaly on and in the night raise to wake Off.
Activities: around 7-8hours a week, 5 Hours with gps and with hr band or hr Belt.
Watch is configurated to get notifications from smartphone.

I have to charge my Suunto Race Every 7-8 days.
Would you say that is normal battery Life?

With the battery Life in activities i am realy happy. For the Daily life, i would Like to get a bit more time between charging cycles.

SergioB

@Sebastian-Wagner-0 5h GPS means at least 10% of battery consumption. Then if you charge the watch at 10% residual battery, it means your Race consumes around 10%/day, which is slightly higher than the claimed specs, but then it depends on how many notifications your receive, how many times you interact with the watch and so on…

If you charge your watch at around 20% residual battery life, the daily battery drain goes to roughly 8.5%. And all written above still applies.

So at the end, the battery consumption could be a little bit higher than the official specs (roughly 6.5% day), but nothing too tragic IMO.