A truly unfortunate purchase
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@msa2025 Regarding the alt/baro functionality you mention you set it to 0 but I assume you weren’t laying on your back in the ocean at the time so why did you set it to 0? The Alt/baro function tells you your absolute height above sea level so if it’s jumping back to ~40m then maybe this is because you are ~40m above sea level?
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@msa2025 in my experience the barometer on my Suunto is incredible accurate. The best I have ever used including older hand held barometer back in the day, several watches and GPS units. And I do use it in the mountains for navigation.
Good luck with your search for a replacement. I really value my Suunto but would be careful of the user case before recommending it.
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@Audaxjoe The barometer is very accurate. The derived altitude isn’t when the watch isn’t properly calibrated.
My experience is that a substantial drift can happen in watch mode, but in an activity the auto-calibration results in spot on values.@far-blue said in A truly unfortunate purchase:
you set it to 0 but I assume you weren’t laying on your back in the ocean at the time so why did you set it to 0?
It depends where @msa2025 lives. Here in The Netherlands we have huge areas that are well below sea level.
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@far-blue
No, I’m in Treviso, the part of Italy near we produce the famous but not so good Prosecco! wikipedia says 15 mt up sea level. (same wikipedia syas 9 meters for Venice… not so reliable?) -
@Audaxjoe The problem is that when i reset it, and it takes the altitude with gps, then it should keep it. The altitude. Then, of course, the barometer must change based on the weather conditions.
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@surfboomerang This can be the reason… in watch mode it is not updated/adjusted with GPS data.
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@msa2025 I live at 30 metres above sea level, so quite similar. I seldom adjust the readings. Occasionally it has a rogue reading. 95% of the time it doesn’t shift, even with pressure drops/gains. It is sometimes a few meters out, like just now it reads 38 meters. But I think that is totally acceptable.
My Garmin would float me up to 8000 meters when watching TV… Older model, Fenix 5 so no doubt greatly improved with newer Garmin watches.
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@Audaxjoe said in A truly unfortunate purchase:
no doubt greatly improved with newer Garmin watches.
Garmin usually adjusts altitude during sleep. The pitfall is that Germin adjusts it to street level, although you might sleep in a skyscraper. Ususally my Garmin is set to about 115m in the morning for me. My Race S tells a more realistic 128m, as I live in the 5th floor.
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People learn how barometric altimeters work and are upset that the measurements change with time and motion. Edition 2137.
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@Łukasz-Szmigiel Suunto used to have an option: altimeter/barometer mode.
Now there’s some kind of crude automation - living in a relatively flat place, with normal movement, pressure changes are often interpreted as altitude changes.
Why such pseudo-improvements, which instead of helping, causes new problems?
