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    Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!

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    • ? Offline
      A Former User
      last edited by A Former User

      pros:

      • Look
      • Comfort
      • Battery life in sport mode with GPS
      • Vibration
      • Breadcrumbs
      • Ability to zoom in navigation mode, but that is somewhat crippled by having to unlock

      Mixed pros/cons:

      • Display - higher resolution but worse contrast / visibility
      • Measures longer, closer to true distance on trails while GPS is less accurate. The reason that happens is because there is some wobbling side to side which kind of compensates cutting through the turns and switchbacks so the distance ends up being slightly truer compared to A3.
      • Automatic FusedAlti - cool idea in general but it often leads to less accurate elevation gain.
      • Direction arrows on navigation route - useful but not always working correctly.

      Everything else - either features I don’t care about or cons.

      In particular, two strong cons compared to A3P are:

      • Lack of dedicated Light and View buttons
      • Can’t see upcoming waypoint details on demand like in A3 (in A3 that is done by pressing View button in navigation screen)
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        A Former User
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        Here is my point of view and I try to keep a comparison with the Fenix 6x Pro out of this:

        Pro:

        • Great user interface
        • easy usability
        • no overload of options/functions
        • very good GPS tracks on the mountains in my area (Southern Germany)
        • native support for running power

        Cons:

        • lack of watchface configuration for intervals (e.g. 3 metrics: timer or distance, power, heartrate)
        • missing additional data from external sensors in the FIT file
        • vibration alarm too less intensity (I sometimes do not recognize it while sleeping)
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        • zhang965Z Offline
          zhang965
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          The step counter is too sucking to be a con ?

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            azeanic
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            I ran a 109k race recently and there was a Suunto 9 (me), a Coros Vertix and a Fenix 5 (two other runners) My observations were.

            • Suunto 9, the distance was off by quite a bit. I had to probably minus 6-8k off the current distance on the watch to match the course. Saving grace was the navigation and course profile. The estimated time arrival was quite useful as well.
            • Fenix 5, had the most accurate distance among the three.
            • Coros Vertix, had the best battery life among us 3 at the 60km mark. I had to disable OHR and charge a bit half-way through the race and finished with about 18% after 29.5 hours. Whilst I vaguely remember the Coros has more than enough battery to get to the finish line without a recharge.
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              freeheeler @azeanic
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              @azeanic
              never run out of battery says suunto…?!

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                sartoric Moderator @azeanic
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                @azeanic said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

                Coros Vertix, had the best battery life among us 3 at the 60km mark. I had to disable OHR and charge a bit half-way through the race and finished with about 18% after 29.5 hours. Whilst I vaguely remember the Coros has more than enough battery to get to the finish line without a recharge.

                Out of curiosity, was Coros using OHR and same precision (of course,not the same but equivalent) for GPS ?

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                • zhang965Z Offline
                  zhang965 @azeanic
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                  @azeanic which GPS precision did you use for the running ? I think it’s a problem with FUSEDTRACK

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                    azeanic @zhang965
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                    @zhang965 Best GPS Mode.

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                      azeanic @sartoric
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                      @sartoric Not sure what’s the precision but OHR was on based off his Strava logs.

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                        freeheeler @azeanic
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                        @azeanic
                        how does your s9 and garmin/coros track look compared in strava?
                        …despite that I noticed that strava shows a compressed trackline compared to SA and MC…

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                          freeheeler @zhang965
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                          @zhang965
                          you’ve got fusedtrack disabled? and better precision?

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                            A Former User @azeanic
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                            @azeanic said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

                            Coros Vertix, had the best battery life among us 3 at the 60km mark. I had to disable OHR and charge a bit half-way through the race and finished with about 18% after 29.5 hours. Whilst I vaguely remember the Coros has more than enough battery to get to the finish line without a recharge.

                            Coros Vertix is advertised to have 60 hours in the best GPS mode, but the accuracy isn’t as good as Suunto 9 from some discussions that I’ve seen so far.

                            Suuto 9 could have survived the entire race on a single charge in Performance mode if OHR was turned off from the beginning, but that would be a close call.

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                              freeheeler @Guest
                              last edited by freeheeler

                              @silentvoyager
                              does chest strap use less battery than ohr?

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                              • zhang965Z Offline
                                zhang965 @freeheeler
                                last edited by zhang965

                                @TELE-HO of course, chest belt requests less battery

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                                  johann.fuehrer Bronze Member @zhang965
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                                  @zhang965 what makes you think so? Bluetooth/ANT+ consumes also energy and WHR is optimized to use also as less as possible? Just because chast Belt has it’s own battery for sensor and transmission?

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                                    zhang965 @johann.fuehrer
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                                    @johann-fuehrer said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

                                    @zhang965 what makes you think so? Bluetooth/ANT+ consumes also energy and WHR is optimized to use also as less as possible? Just because chast Belt has it’s own battery for sensor and transmission?

                                    I didn’t think so, it just acts so,
                                    try it yourself, in the same sport mode, s9 will show different estimated battery life.

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                                      johann.fuehrer Bronze Member @zhang965
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                                      @zhang965 ---- no chance — still on Ambit2 — waiting for improvements in the App and Firmware before wasting money again …

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                                        Egika Platinum Member @johann.fuehrer
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                                        @johann-fuehrer said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

                                        @zhang965 what makes you think so? Bluetooth/ANT+ consumes also energy and WHR is optimized to use also as less as possible? Just because chast Belt has it’s own battery for sensor and transmission?

                                        It’s true.
                                        WHR consumes more energy because the LED’s use way more than BTLE.
                                        BTLE has an average current of ~0.05mA (depending largely on the chipset)
                                        The high rate LED switching easily uses 10x as much power…

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                                          johann.fuehrer Bronze Member @Egika
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                                          @Egika said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

                                          @johann-fuehrer said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

                                          @zhang965 what makes you think so? Bluetooth/ANT+ consumes also energy and WHR is optimized to use also as less as possible? Just because chast Belt has it’s own battery for sensor and transmission?

                                          It’s true.
                                          WHR consumes more energy because the LED’s use way more than BTLE.
                                          BTLE has an average current of ~0.05mA (depending largely on the chipset)
                                          The high rate LED switching easily uses 10x as much power…

                                          Thx for the info!

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                                            freeheeler @zhang965
                                            last edited by

                                            @zhang965
                                            what is, by your experience, the battery life in best GPS mode?

                                            and another technical question: is it possible to get oxygen values with these LED’s or would it require a different sensor?

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