solar charging

[freeheeler]

@riccardo88ve
I wouldn’t even call it a software bug, but I am not a software developer… my wild guess: it’s simply a wrong output.
but actually it doesn’t matter what it is as we can’t do anything anyway except for sending logs and describing the observations. and that’s what I did, so they know, they prioritise and then look into it

[sartoric]

@riccardo88ve said in solar charging:

@freeheeler So for you it’s not a malfunction of the vertical … but a software bug?

it’s a feature, not a bug

Jokes apart, as said it probably simply doesn’t use solar if the watch still has a certain percentage of charge

[riccardo88ve]

@Todd-Danielczyk thanks

[Highlands]

Posted in wrong thread. Sorry.

[Tami999]

About solar… how it is safe to have long time on sun? I was today on trip, gained a lot of sunny from direct lighting, and my watch was pretty hot. How long its safe to expose watch on direct sun? I know its not recommended, but does was there someone that damaged watch by that?

[sartoric]

@Tami999
Well, overheating electronics it’s never a good thing.
That said there are operating temperature that should be taken in consideration.

[freeheeler]

@Tami999
I know people who take their watches to the sauna…

[Todd Danielczyk]

@riccardo88ve today I got some trail riding in with plenty of sunshine. 3 rings.

[thanasis]

@Todd-Danielczyk what strap is that one ?? Seems interesting

[Todd Danielczyk]

@thanasis it’s a knock off version of the Apple Ultra ocean.

NotoCity for Garmin Fenix 6 Band 22mm Ocean Watch Band for Fenix 7, Fenix 5, Fenix 6 Pro, Fenix 5 Plus, Forerunner 955/945, Approach S60/S62, Epix (Army Green) https://a.co/d/8eKD1je

Super comfy and keeps the Vertical tight enough to get good HR readings.

[riccardo88ve]

@freeheeler Thank you, then, in my opinion, my vertical has some problems… it is not possible that in full sun only 2 circles are filled. today I contact Suunto support and let’s see what they say. thanks

[Brad_Olwin]

@riccardo88ve May be true, here is last week for mine, no issues. I would contact support.

[riccardo88ve]

@Brad_Olwin At what level of charge was your vertical?

[Brad_Olwin]

@riccardo88ve not sure but probably 60-70%

[riccardo88ve]

Hello everyone, in the end I sent the vertical to a service center… the whole display was replaced … actually the panel had problems… now everything works perfectly.

[Todd Danielczyk]

@riccardo88ve Thank you very much for the follow up and good to hear your Vertical is now working correctly after the repair!

[Tami999]

Happened to me today and yesterday. In full sun I have 2/3 rings, not 3/3 like i had in even sunny days than today. Direct sun 29’C, 0 clouds. I’ll probably go like riccardo with that I guess :P. Soft reset doesnt help.

[Tami999]

I punched softly watch and so far it works again.

[Tieutieu]

I wonder If miss something…
I don’t really use solar charging widget since new UI, because SV battery is so huge that I don’t really care.
But lately I wanted to see how it collected sun again, during a bike ride…
I was surprise to see that widget was totally empty whereas it was very sunny. I then notice that widget says that « solar charging is in sleep mode ».
Never saw that before or read about it.
Any idea ? For now solar charging is not working anymore.

[sartoric]

@Tieutieu
It’s always in IDLE status when there is no sufficient light.

But in your case it could be stuck, did you try a soft reset ?