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      wotus Bronze Member @Brad_Olwin
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      @brad_olwin At the moment I see problems with too insensitive autopause and frequent and long signal losses when cycling with reduced GPS accuracy, as disadvantages. But these are luxury problems in case the battery charge should be too low for the performance mode.

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        @wotus You can charge your watch on the fly. I don’t like doing that running but I would do it on a bike.

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          chrisc92 Bronze Member @wotus
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          @wotus now autonomy in performance mode is near 25 h ; for the ambit3 it was 20 h that’s quite enough for a long bike ride 😉

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            chrisc92 Bronze Member @chrisc92
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            Here is the Sunnto 9 Peak Wrist Optical HR record for my easy run.
            S9P OHR Vs. Polar H10

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            this is the first time in my 8 years background of HR sensors tests that I have such a precise curve, with Suunto or Garmin watches and sensors. There are 2 small peaks but it’s probably when I checked my wristband to see if there was sweat and if it was tightened .
            Outside temperature was also 13/16 Celsius so there was no sweat between my skin and the sensor.

            I have now to test specific interval training to see the reactivity of changes, but this seems very promising.

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              wotus Bronze Member @chrisc92
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              @chrisc92 For longer rides like FischKona (600km) it may be not enough and I would take the endurance mode from the beginning.
              My Ambit3p was set to GPS Good (5s fix, 30h battery life, recording intervall 10s) and the track quality was near perfect like the S9p in performance mode.
              But now the endurance mode in S9p is not very usable for cycling, as I know it from the A3p.
              I didn’t expect there to be such essential differences?

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                Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @wotus
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                @wotus are you using HR ?

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                  wotus Bronze Member @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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                  @dimitrios-kanellopoulos To have a direct comparison, I did not use HR in endurance mode on the first ride, but in the following ones, because without HR my energy consumption is usually counted with zero calories. Regardless of this, the track quality remains equally inaccurate.

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                    Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @wotus
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                    @wotus I am asking because without HR the s9P should get you more than 30h in best.

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                      Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @wotus
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                      @wotus is the plan to use the watch as a bike computer or as an accessory ?

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                        wotus Bronze Member @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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                        @dimitrios-kanellopoulos Without HR it shows me 1h more duration, this is not significant for me, but I wanted to try it out.

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                          wotus Bronze Member @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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                          @dimitrios-kanellopoulos For both, I usually use an additional simple bike computer. But the plan for S9p is especially for daily recording of training data in all activities for the next 5200 units, as the old A3p has served me well since 2014. In this regard, the power saving modes sound very promising for me to try them out.

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                            @wotus For biking, the S9P should go 30+ Hours on Performance mode. However, you could go on Performance mode until you get a battery warning and then simply switch on the fly to Endurance mode. That way most or all of your bike would be on Performance mode.

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                              Other real world data about OHR.
                              My wife ran with S9P a couple of times, and it takes about 10 min to have a reliable value .

                              She has low HR at start (60) (S9P measure it while not recording) and she started the run, with warm up smoothly and in gentle downhill, so HR 150 for ten first minutes are not good (and by far).
                              And then, it becomes “normal”.

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                                chrisc92 Bronze Member @Mff73
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                                @mff73 I had the same problem and after tightening the wristband (thanks to dimitrios) the peak disapeared. But anyway for some days I keep my belt to compare and make sure that there is no “HR starting peak”, for the two first minutes I can have 10 to 20 more BPM.

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                                  Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager
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                                  I am also having bad spo2 values but also from my oxymeter ( medical). But not when I am inside with the airco, and not at 40c. Just an observation. I don’t know if spo2 can relate to heat. I read and searched a bit and heat it is said to significantly impact the spo2. If I am correct. Not trying to justify something and I am putting some feedback to suunto

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                                    ChrisA Platinum Member @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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                                    The S9P alltitude accuracy seems really great! Calibrated it once about a week ago and did a small trip to the local grocery store today. When passing an old railway station I took a picture of a sign on they Wall, which tells the altitude of the station. It was the same as measured by the S9P!

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                                      For those interested 185km ride with:
                                      Suunto S9P
                                      https://www.suunto.com/move/andrfaria640/60d7729dc2a2ac4a04baf5ec?imageId=60d77d4fc2a2ac4a04bb32fd

                                      Garmin edge 530 fw8.10 with decathlon hr strap
                                      https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/7025695294

                                      Interesting the different altitude values and that s9p ended up with 61% battery !

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                                        chrisc92 Bronze Member @Guest
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                                        @andré-faria whow very good trip 🙂
                                        61 % is perfectly in line with 25 h autonomy prediction (4%/hour)
                                        For elevation, you can upload the two activities gpx files to quantified-self.io if you want to see the elevation graph merged

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                                          chrisc92 Bronze Member @Guest
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                                          @andré-faria
                                          related to your S9 elevation concern, i did a smaller ride today, but I also noticed a difference between Suunto (509m in SA) and Garmin (573m in GarminConnect)

                                          Here is the route I followed
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                                          is shown 540m elev in SA, but 490 in QS )

                                          I merged the route, Garmin Edge and S9P activities route vs S9P vs Edge to see each activity towards the route’s elevation :
                                          S9P Vs Garmin elevation:
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                                          S9P vs Route
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                                          Garmin Edge vs route
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                                          Interesting thing is that in the first part S9P was lower and in the second part higher, when it started to rain, with a small depression
                                          IMG_1244.jpg (photo taken at 3 pm, ride at 10 pm)
                                          So regarding the change in weather conditions, Garmin tends to deviate a little more from standard GPS elevation, as S9P remains always close. But surprisingly the total ascend of Garmin is closer to total route ascend than S9P total ascend.

                                          (if you send your gpx, maybe someone could help with the brilliant QS tool 🙂 )

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                                            A Former User @chrisc92
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                                            @chrisc92 said in Real world data:

                                            @andré-faria
                                            related to your S9 elevation concern, i did a smaller ride today, but I also noticed a difference between Suunto (509m in SA) and Garmin (573m in GarminConnect)

                                            Here is the route I followed
                                            IMG_1248.jpg
                                            is shown 540m elev in SA, but 490 in QS )

                                            I merged the route, Garmin Edge and S9P activities route vs S9P vs Edge to see each activity towards the route’s elevation :
                                            S9P Vs Garmin elevation:
                                            4c2d3bb1-63ea-4278-acd4-f45ea113d166-image.png

                                            S9P vs Route
                                            ad841a74-b5b5-4582-959b-a325b172f350-image.png

                                            Garmin Edge vs route
                                            2dc12f2d-9e92-4740-9ac4-66fd90121d4b-image.png

                                            Interesting thing is that in the first part S9P was lower and in the second part higher, when it started to rain, with a small depression
                                            IMG_1244.jpg (photo taken at 3 pm, ride at 10 pm)
                                            So regarding the change in weather conditions, Garmin tends to deviate a little more from standard GPS elevation, as S9P remains always close. But surprisingly the total ascend of Garmin is closer to total route ascend than S9P total ascend.

                                            (if you send your gpx, maybe someone could help with the brilliant QS tool 🙂 )

                                            Thanks for this awesome comparison.
                                            I don’t care too much about elevation differences. Sometime ago I followed the imense discutions about how each brand/site does…in the end what I got, is that there is no “right”.
                                            On strava, the two guys that rode with me (one with Xiaomi phone) and other with hammerhead karoo 2 got for ascent 829m and 1044m respectively (against 977 from edge 530 and 660 from S9P)
                                            But if anyone wants I can provide gpx, no problem. I posted this data, more to help the developments or people that need comparison of these devices.
                                            What I posted before was a gravel ride, with some parts in “forest”.
                                            Today I did another 165km with both devices but on open road:

                                            Garmin 530 https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/7030987942 (458m ascent)
                                            Suunto S9P https://www.suunto.com/en-be/move/andrfaria640/60d8a12f1c6b0f5222d3db2a (316m ascent)

                                            My collegues got 354m (xiaomi phone) and 452 (hammerhead karoo).
                                            Based on what we climbed, I would say the suunto is right 😊
                                            Again, if someone needs/wants to compare, go ahead, I just cycled for Rapha Ambitious 220, to help creating awareness/funding for autism and for pleasure.

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