Suunto 9 Peak maximum battery life
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@surfboomerang thanks I found it
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@loopylou72 Sorry, I was out using my Suunto and had no internet access for a couple days.
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@Brad_Olwin looks nice! My watch died on my 30hr run. I had changed the settings but still had the best GPS. For future reference, if using the ‘good’ GPS what is the impact of this on distance/pace accuracy?
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@loopylou72 are you using Best GPS to achieve 30 hours? What is your watch settings?
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@babychai
Yes best gps
Screen saver on
Screen brightness low
I had turned autolap off but in the race it was on, I think because I changed the settings in the normal battery mode and later switched to manual battery to enable the screen saver/screen time-out not realising this would affect the general settings I’d set up so this may have drained more battery… the watch suggested switching to endurance mode as it ran low but still died. If I’d just used endurance mode I was worried it would affect my other data ie pace, distance, elevation? -
@loopylou72 not sure about the elevation but the distance will show much much longer distance
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@loopylou72 Endurance mode affects pace a bit but not enough to worry about in a 30h race. Autolap definitely reduces battery life. I doubt I can get 30h in Performance mode even using the custom settings you did. I would switch to Endurance mode or start out that way. I have a ~30h race coming up and I will use Endurance mode on the S9P. Endurance will not affect distance much if at all due to FusedTrack, which is amazing.
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@Brad_Olwin I got 30hrs with my suunto 9 baro in a different race but slightly different settings, could turn screen save on in the activity abd auto laps off. Adding a lot of extra distance does make a difference if you are aiming for a particular average pace… I’ll try endurance mode in training and see how much it affects other data!
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@Brad_Olwin I ran 5km with endurance mode and the GPS line on strava cut all the curves and gave me PRs I hadn’t run. I wouldn’t want this in a race! However the overall distance/time seemed correct… needs more testing on longer runs I have done before ot compare.
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@loopylou72 Thanks for sharing your result. I think this is Opportunity Cost that we need to expect when we choose lesser accuracy mode. If still able to maintain distance, elevation and pace similar with Performance mode this is really super amazing in my opinion.
