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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

    SV Titanium Solar Forest

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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.

        Suunto Vertical Titanium Solar
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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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                  isazi Moderator @freeheeler
                  last edited by 25 May 2023, 10:38

                  @freeheeler I know that if the battery of my Vertical solar starts going up I need to apply suncreen more than once. Happened to me twice.

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                    valdis830 @vlado
                    last edited by 25 May 2023, 11:14

                    @vlado
                    I guess the big drawback is the useful surface of the solar panel. Each m2 of a conventional solar panels have a power around 250w which, extrapolating to our Vertical, would be about 0.25w at full sun.
                    As a general rule, USB chargers usually have an output voltage of 5V. So, for example, a charger that is capable of supplying 1.5 A (amps) at 5V (volts) will have a power about of 7.5 W (watts).
                    Solar charger does not more than a little help to extend the life of the battery;)

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                      Egika Platinum Member @valdis830
                      last edited by Egika 25 May 2023, 11:49

                      @valdis830 as the watch has a super high battery efficiency, luckly not so much energy is needed.
                      The solar option in Suunto Vertical will increase the battery time during activity significantly (in the range of +30%)!
                      This is leading the competition of comparable watches and really makes a difference.

                      Even if on a 2A power supply, the charging circuit of the watch will reduce the charging current to what is healthy for the battery. It will not reach 7.5W

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                        aroo7 Bronze Member
                        last edited by 26 May 2023, 12:34

                        Is it known what the bars on the widget graph mean? And how to interpret them when they are “full” of light? 🙂

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                          SuperFlo75 Silver Members Bronze Member
                          last edited by 27 May 2023, 20:18

                          Today, I went on holidays by car… the sun was shining on my left wrist about 4 or 5 hours… solar charging increased the battery from 78% to 80%… i could see a little effectiveness of solar charging!

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                            SuperFlo75 Silver Members Bronze Member
                            last edited by SuperFlo75 6 Aug 2023, 09:55 8 Jun 2023, 09:22

                            I noticed all these days that the scale of the solar display is changing… when I go into the sun in the morning, the stripe of of display increases, and if the sun is strong, the stripe is ‚full‘… but after some more 10min periods, the scale changes and the stripes don‘t reach the max anymore… in the evening, when the sun goes down, it goes backwards and the scale is like in the morning. Regarding to this, it is not possible to reach a ‚full‘ max solar stripe at noon… who can explain? How can I increase solar charging when sittung in the full sun at noon?

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                            Only one minute later…

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                              martin Bronze Member @Tieutieu
                              last edited by 8 Jun 2023, 09:36

                              @Tieutieu modern cars often have athermic window treatments in order not to become too much of a hot oven in the summer. I guess what does not warm your car is also what you would need to charge your battery through the solar panel…

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                                BrunoH Gold Members @SuperFlo75
                                last edited by 8 Jun 2023, 10:26

                                @SuperFlo75 Just noticed the same thing. I had my first full solar bar, but the next minute the scale had changed 🤔 . What’s going on?

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                                  surfboomerang @BrunoH
                                  last edited by surfboomerang 6 Aug 2023, 11:30 8 Jun 2023, 11:29

                                  @BrunoH I noticed this behaviour if the watch collects a lot of sun in 10 minutes.
                                  For example, if your watch collects enough sun for almost a full bar it will show this. If the next 10 minutes it collects even more because you intentionally point it towards the sun, the old bar is cut in half.

                                  I suspect that the graph scale changes when the solar charge was near or over 100% for 10 minutes.

                                  This was the previous post
                                  @surfboomerang said in solar charging:

                                  Is the some kind of scale on the solar history bars?

                                  I noticed today that 2 10min bars were almost full. Once a third appeared, with a slightly higher value than the previous ones, the previous two changed to half full.

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                                    Anton Vanderpoel @surfboomerang
                                    last edited by 11 Jun 2023, 09:03

                                    @surfboomerang the solar charging is very fast if there is sun i several tmes reset the watch before i noticed no charge percentage after resetting the watch the charging is very fast

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                                      Danny poleg Silver Members @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
                                      last edited by 7 Aug 2023, 17:18

                                      @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos I’m trying to understand why two suunto verticl at the same point show a different level of solar charging, one very weak and the other a full circle

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                                        inkognito Platinum Member @Danny poleg
                                        last edited by inkognito 8 Jul 2023, 19:56 7 Aug 2023, 19:56

                                        @Danny-poleg Screen protector on one of them?

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                                        Spartan Trainer: casing broke after 23 months, repaired, lost watertightness 5 months later, died
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                                          BrunoH Gold Members @Anton Vanderpoel
                                          last edited by 8 Aug 2023, 05:56

                                          @Anton-Vanderpoel said in solar charging:

                                          @surfboomerang the solar charging is very fast if there is sun i several tmes reset the watch before i noticed no charge percentage after resetting the watch the charging is very fast

                                          Is there any truth in this? I don’t know if Anton is referring to soft reset or factory reset, but is there a possibility that solar charging might become more effective after wipeout?

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