TimothyH

Can someone who actually owns one tell me how long the battery lasts with the screen on all the time, glonass enabled and speed/cadence/heart rate sensors in use?

I'm not looking for Garmin's claimed battery life or what someone has read. If you actually have one then please let me know.


-Tim-

unterhausen

I started a thread about the 830 on the randon google group, because I need some convincing before I buy one. Mostly I was concerned that they fixed the navigation issues on long rides. That's still a question. There were positive reports about battery life. The funny thing is one person reported better battery life with the default settings than another person reported with all the battery saving options selected. Might just be measurement error. They were talking about 300k rides taking 1/3 the battery capacity. I'm somewhat suspicious about that number, because battery capacity can diminish rapidly as the state of charge gets lower. So the state of charge that they consider 0% is very important. And I haven't seen any reports that make me confident they have chosen wisely in that regard.