Garmin

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Oranj Jul 2022 4:32pm, 12 Jul 2022 3,264 posts	0 Oranj It really is crazy how accurate it is. With my old watch I had about a 50% chance of tagging this traffic light by running down the Cowley road, due to GPS wiggles. Today I ran on the north side of the road but I've also tested running on the south side and neither situation is enough to get quite close enough now - I have to turn down the adjacent road to tag it.
chunkywizard Jul 2022 4:44pm, 12 Jul 2022 14,523 posts	0 chunkywizard I agree, you can work out when you cross roads, its accurate to sub 1metre I would say, maybe even sub 50cm.
Sampson Jul 2022 6:13pm, 16 Jul 2022 294 posts	0 Sampson Any Fetchies in Basel want to sell me a charging clip for my FR645? 😅 My bag was nicked in Belgium and I seem to care more about this than my loss of passport, wallet, and many valuables!
chunkywizard Jul 2022 7:03pm, 16 Jul 2022 14,550 posts	0 chunkywizard You could probably get one on amazon pretty quickly.
Sampson Jul 2022 7:48pm, 16 Jul 2022 295 posts	0 Sampson No Amazon in Switzerland, would you believe. Nor in our next stops of Slovenia and Croatia! What a world!
Bowman 🇸🇪 Jul 2022 8:07pm, 16 Jul 2022 1,615 posts	0 Bowman 🇸🇪 There’s a lot of other vendors in those country’s. Maybe this is one? r2-bike.com Just google!
Sampson Jul 2022 7:17am, 17 Jul 2022 296 posts	0 Sampson Not easy when you're hopping from country to country. Next day delivery is the only practical option, and that's not available. It isn't the first time I've wished I could buy a charger in a shop.
Bowman 🇸🇪 Jul 2022 8:12am, 17 Jul 2022 1,617 posts	0 Bowman 🇸🇪 Yes ok, sorry about that Sampson. I hope you find one.
larkim Jul 2022 10:03pm, 20 Jul 2022 18,599 posts	0 larkim Had an odd one tonight. GPS signal locked and loaded, set off and was getting believable pace readings etc. Got to about 3 miles in and the readings were still believable in terms of pace, but perhaps 30s per mile faster than I thought I was going. Got to about 5 miles and the last mile was shown as being about 45s faster than I thought, but also the 5 mile marker came up on my watch about 0.25+m earlier than I knew it should so guessed there'd been a snafu somewhere. Output file only contains about 0.75m of trace so clearly it had a meltdown mid run. Odd though that it kept reporting pretty believable pace and distance readings. Was expecting to see a messed up trace rather than a very partial one. Odd / intriguing. Just one of those things though.
westmoors Jul 2022 7:24am, 21 Jul 2022 6,397 posts	0 westmoors larkim, does your watch have an accelerometer in it? If so, it was probably using that to determine distance/pace if it lost connection to the satellites.