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

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@TELE-HO When on the forest/ mountain and running with a headlight or without (That I do many times on a full moon) any other light might “fog” the vision.
I do find the watch light in the pitch black a bit of a distraction as the least I can say.

Or is this just me?

freeheeler

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
running on even surface at full moon would work for me. but as soon as I go to the forest, night hiking or skitouring, I wear a headlamp that’s bright enough to see roots and dangers. of course the watch light must be darker so you’re not blinded by it…

freeheeler

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
well of course, slow ski ascents normally don’t require a headlamp as snow reflects even with new moon

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@TELE-HO no ski for me , yet

Many things regarding ridge running and mountain running but no ski

Brad_Olwin

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

hey guys and ladies that come from ambit and are happy with s9b now:
how did you get rid of your ambit apps addiction? didn’t you use the apps at all? or did s9b display values that made apps not required for you anymore?
or are there apps (hence values) that you miss now?

For me:

S9b battery life is a winner and FusedTrack is just amazing…so I have 50h-120h of battery life unachievable with Ambit
ETE/ETA displays were what I used apps for
I don’t need complex intervals and intervals on S9b are good enough
Vertical speed fields are good enough on S9b
What other apps do folks need

cosme.costa

I have quite experience to run in the forest with headlamp and my SSU (same technology as S9) as 95% of my runs start between 6 and 6.30 a.m., so I use the headlamp more than half a year.

My experience so far is that if you are running in the dark (only headlamp) in the forest and at nice pace pay attention to the trail and check the watch later. And I use a Petzl Nao as headlamp so no issues with the amount of light.

Returning to the topic, using a headlamp with a wide angle, is quite easy to check the watch in a glimpse. I have even followed some routes in close night only with the headlamp and the watch without problems. Besides, I do not know how many times do you need to check your watch, but with the 1 km watch split the screen turns on and you have time to see the summary and the sports field.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

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A Former User

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

Vertical speed fields are good enough on S9b

I find vertical speed to be way too jumpy, at least when measured in ft/hour - that is what the default mountain running sport mode has.

Recently I realized that in custom mode an alternative vertical speed field can be used which shows speed as ft/min. @Brad_Olwin, is that the field you use?

Brad_Olwin

@silentvoyager I use ft/hr as most of the uphills that I do are very long. For SkiMo I find ft/hr useful and not jumpy but I also use speed so I can see if my downhill laps (typically during races) are equal or if I have slowed down. I would use ft/min if the hills were smaller. My hills are usually a minimum of 700m.

freeheeler

@Brad_Olwin
I use m/h for all my activities.
I’ve set it up for ascent rate on ascents only, ascent rate for the entire recording and ascent rate “now”.
depending if it’s a lot of ups and downs or long flats between ascents or only one long climb it’s very useful. I assume this is not possible with s9b?

Brad_Olwin

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

@Brad_Olwin
I use m/h for all my activities.
I’ve set it up for ascent rate on ascents only, ascent rate for the entire recording and ascent rate “now”.
depending if it’s a lot of ups and downs or long flats between ascents or only one long climb it’s very useful. I assume this is not possible with s9b?

Stupid imperial system in USA, I use metric at work but tough to switch. The S9b allows all of this and you can have an elevation graph if you like. For example, you could have total elevation gain and ascent rate as well as total descent and descent rate as well as an elevation graph that provides altitude and shows the profile in real time. This is in addition to the route profile. One reason why I do not need the majority of apps I used on the A3P.

A Former User

@TELE-HO If the watch is configured in metric units the choices are m/hr or m/min. If the watch is configured in imperial units - ft/hr or ft/min.

freeheeler

@Brad_Olwin
my us workmates use metric, too.

good to know about the graph. today I’m still heavily in love with my apps… let’s see how all this turns out finally

Kristen Maria

@silentvoyager I have been wondering about that. I have increased my backlight brightness to 100% and still can’t read messages or see my watch face very well when indoors. Is there some way to remedy that? I bought the watch based on the photos I saw online where the watch face was easily visible!

Mff73

@Kristen-Maria
Have you check you don’t have DND mode, or powersaving mode on ?
100% backlight is huge.

Kristen Maria

@Mff73 I don’t have power saving mode on, but how do I get to DND mode? I’ve only had the watch for a day and have been trying everything to try to get the screen to be more visible.

Mff73

@Kristen-Maria
Long press middle button, and first option is DND mode (with a trigger slider)

Kristen Maria

@Mff73 oh, Do Not Disturb…no, both modes are off. I’m talking about visibility mode indoors. Outdoors I can see fairly well. It’s like the initial poster says, indoor visibility is very poor. There is very little change between, say 45% and 100% brightness. It is definitely not twice the brightness. Thinking about taking it to a store that sells Suuntos and looking at their floor models.

Saketo Nemo

@Kristen-Maria
if it is so hard to read the watch, enable the backlight in stand by

Kristen Maria

@Saketo-Nemo I have also done that. I’m thinking about doing a hard reset to see if that solves the issue. I feel like I have covered everything and I see nothing online that indicates this is a common problem. I want to wear the watch while training and also in daily non-training use, so it’s important for me to be able to see the time. Sport modes are very visible outdoors, so that is not a problem, fortunately.