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    Highlands @DMytro
    last edited by 20 May 2023, 18:38

    @DMytro I couldn’t be less bothered about the battery of my watches. They have pretty long lifespan and by the time their deterioration starts worrying me, I guess I’ll have changed the watches. 4-5 years will be without any problems.

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      mikeorbreak @freeheeler
      last edited by 20 May 2023, 19:16

      @freeheeler said in solar charging:

      @DMytro
      @Egika once explained it well to me in a pm… I stopped worrying that moment 😉 👍

      Do you want to tell us? With permission of @Egika of course…

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        freeheeler @mikeorbreak
        last edited by freeheeler 20 May 2023, 19:20

        @mikeorbreak
        as said before, long story short (what I recall): don’t worry, it takes long for watches to reach charging cycles 🙂

        living sideways

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          surfboomerang
          last edited by 21 May 2023, 05:55

          The solar widget confuses me a little bit.
          I had an office day on Friday with probably 1 hour of sun that day. On Saturday I had a 3 hour windsurf session with probably 5 hours of sun, but the graph doesn’t seem to show that.

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            wotus Bronze Member @surfboomerang
            last edited by 21 May 2023, 07:58

            @surfboomerang Could it be that the graph shows the relative energy balance, on Saturday the collected and consumed energy during windsurfing were almost equal, but on Friday more energy was collected than consumed?

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              vlado
              last edited by 21 May 2023, 13:34

              I left it this morning on clear sun for some 3 hours, battery was at 14% at the begining and after those 3 hours it was still on 14%, it did not raise…but that was 8 hours ago and it is still on 14. My question is…when it is being solar charged does the percentage raise or it just stays on that initial percentage for a lot longer than when it did not had solar charge?

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                SuperFlo75 Silver Members Bronze Member
                last edited by 21 May 2023, 14:55

                The last two days I could test the solar charging… after a long period of raining we had a slighty cloudy sky with periods of sun 🤩 I noticed the the force of the solar charging is very very depending of the direction or the angle of the incoming sun… but I don‘t want to change the watch from the left to the right wrist when I change the direction of my activity… 🤣

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                  sartoric Moderator @SuperFlo75
                  last edited by 21 May 2023, 15:39

                  @SuperFlo75 said in solar charging:

                  the force of the solar charging is very very depending of the direction or the angle of the incoming sun

                  Well, that’s actually how solar panel works, unfortunately

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                    deserthike20 Bronze Member @surfboomerang
                    last edited by 21 May 2023, 17:57

                    @surfboomerang I’m seeing similar behavior on the weekly solar chart as well. It doesn’t seem to be displaying the info correctly.

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                      surfboomerang @wotus
                      last edited by 21 May 2023, 18:35

                      @wotus would definitely be a nice idea, but then I would suspect negative values since I ended up with a lower battery percentage at the end of the day.

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                        surfboomerang @vlado
                        last edited by 21 May 2023, 18:37

                        @vlado it does raise, but you need a lot of sun and patience.

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                          craigeggleton Bronze Member @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
                          last edited by 23 May 2023, 02:43

                          @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos left mine in direct sunlight for 30 minutes (off wrist), screen went black, and zero charging.

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                            surfboomerang @craigeggleton
                            last edited by surfboomerang 23 May 2023, 03:43

                            @craigeggleton it took me around 50 minutes for 1%. So normally 4-5 full solar bars

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                              MiniForklift Platinum Member @craigeggleton
                              last edited by 23 May 2023, 04:16

                              @craigeggleton said in solar charging:

                              @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos left mine in direct sunlight for 30 minutes (off wrist), screen went black, and zero charging.

                              The screen will go blank if the watch isn’t being moved, but it will still be charging. IIRC the solar functioning is actually better once the watchface has gone off

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                                Tieutieu Platinum Member @surfboomerang
                                last edited by 24 May 2023, 18:16

                                @surfboomerang today tried during a car travel.
                                With this amount, I didn’t won any single % of battery. Still have to experiment…maybe amount of sun behind glasses was not as strong as direct sun. 😧 IMG_5163.jpeg

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                                  surfboomerang @Tieutieu
                                  last edited by surfboomerang 24 May 2023, 20:42

                                  @Tieutieu No, the amount of sunlight in the car is way less than outside. When I wrote 4-5 bars, I meant totally full bars. I was outside and the watch was facing the sun.

                                  Also, if I understood correctly, the bars are only showing 50000 lux and the watch is capable of collecting more than that. So it could be that in my test the watch was receiving way more light than a full bar.

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                                    Tieutieu Platinum Member @surfboomerang
                                    last edited by Tieutieu 25 May 2023, 04:35

                                    @surfboomerang thanks for explanations ! It Confirms I need more time (more sun !!) to have decent results. I have a long race to come next weekend, it will be a good test !
                                    My only concern is that I my skin turns usually very quickly to full red when there is a bright sun !! 😆

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                                      freeheeler @Tieutieu
                                      last edited by 25 May 2023, 04:58

                                      @Tieutieu
                                      …the solar charging bar can be dual use… when one bar is full it’s time to think about putting on sunscreen 😉

                                      living sideways

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                                        aroo7 Bronze Member
                                        last edited by 25 May 2023, 07:28

                                        Is it known what exactly the stripes on the viewer represent? Suunto only reports light output in lux (or I didn’t read something) but that’s not information on how much of that energy we gained.
                                        A cool addition, by the way would be a statistic info in the solar widget showing how much energy we gained from the solar panel during the day and the whole week

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                                          Likarnik Bronze Member @aroo7
                                          last edited by 25 May 2023, 07:43

                                          @aroo7 And graph in SA like steps/calories

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