problems with my S9B

[Luis Duarte]

[isazi]

@Luis-Duarte can you try to have your watch under your sleeve and see if anything happen? Or switch position of S9 and A3 next time (so that the baro opening will be blocked for the A3 and not for the S9)?

[Mff73]

@Luis-Duarte
Are you syncing your S9b activities to SuuntoApp with Android smartphone?

[Luis Duarte]

@Mff73 yes

[Luis Duarte]

@isazi ok thanks
I’m go to try it

[Mff73]

@Luis-Duarte said in problems with my S9B:

@Mff73 yes

So.
there are raw data files you may use and import them in QS, maybe you could see something interesting (registered altitude vs GPS altitude for example)
See here where to find this file.
https://forum.suunto.com/post/33052

[Mi_chael]

@Luis-Duarte

As I see. You use a rain jacket for you’re workout.
Sadly the hole of barometer sensor of S9 is not at the same place of A3 Peak.
I think you’re jacket came to touch the S9 hole during you’re run.
Try to use S9 over the jacket. Or on the left wrist but try to don’t touch it with your hand.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

The problem is here

The sensor, comes into contact with the jacket and pushes the sensor.

[A Former User]

I believe that @Luis-Duarte has the watch since christmas maybe he has runs without jacket and that this issue may be recurrent.
If S9B is so sensitive to jackets how runners do?

[Luis Duarte]

@Mff73 thanks

[Luis Duarte]

@Mi_chael

[Luis Duarte]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos I don’t remember training without the raincoat but it is possible that it happened.
I will have attention in the future…
since March I have not run on the mountain again.
now I came back and the problem happened again
But if that is the problem it is a big mistake for a top suunto watch.
I hope to solve the problem
thank you all

[Luis Duarte]

Running_2020-01-24T08_08_12.fit

I think this was the first with problems

[Mff73]

@Luis-Duarte said in problems with my S9B:

Running_2020-01-24T08_08_12.fit

I think this was the first with problems

In this one, your altitude registered after 10km is really noisy, while quite nice for first 10km.
Something may effectively have affected baro sensor (sleeve, wind, water, wrist movement,…).

[Brad_Olwin]

@Mff73 said in problems with my S9B:

@Luis-Duarte said in problems with my S9B:

Running_2020-01-24T08_08_12.fit

I think this was the first with problems

In this one, your altitude registered after 10km is really noisy, while quite nice for first 10km.
Something may effectively have affected baro sensor (sleeve, wind, water, wrist movement,…).

@Mff73 is correct, the noisy data are where the wrong data were recorded. This occurs as I stated early in the thread because of skin or garments blocking/pushing against the sensor. The wind has to be very strong for this to happen. There is likely nothing wrong with the watch.

[Luis Duarte]

I will test the watch again.
I will do what you said
thank you all
I’ll tell you how it went

[cosme.costa]

@André-Faria said in problems with my S9B:

I believe that @Luis-Duarte has the watch since christmas maybe he has runs without jacket and that this issue may be recurrent.
If S9B is so sensitive to jackets how runners do?

You put the watch over the jacket, I least I do that way, of course you can’t use OHR, you need a strap if you want HR readings.

[Luis Duarte]

@cosmecosta ok thanks
if that is the problem it is very bad for a top watch to have such a problem. In winter I can’t use it then. it’s just a summer watch.
I trained little since March and did not go to the mountain. now these problems have returned.

[isazi]

@Luis-Duarte honestly this only happened to me once in over a year, and it was during a walk in storm kinda winds (trees falling down). I used my S9 for running, hiking, skiing, mountaineering, always under a jacket, never had issues.

[cosme.costa]

@Luis-Duarte I wouldn’t say the it is a summer watch. I use it all the year without issues. Right now you are covering the holes of the sensor making a sealing effect that makes the bad readings, if you use it in the other hand you won’t have this issues (better if you do not use gloves of course).

If you use it over the jacket and you do not have HR, is it a killer? I do not think so… But if it is a must for you and you can use a chest or OHR strap you will have the HR readings and surely even more percise, not affected by other factors like WOHR. You can also use the watch under the jacket with the WOHR, there are some brands of apparel that make a nice window for the watch.