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Mar 2015
9:01pm, 9 Mar 2015
4,797 posts
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Badger
Exhaustion, no; battery hit from a three hour run with Glonass on would scale to 15-16 hours.
I'll try it at some point, probably with all the fancy stuff off (I think activity tracking and BT alerts are probably neither here nor there if you are talking about being on your feet for more than 18 hours in the first place!)
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Mar 2015
2:08pm, 26 Mar 2015
15,759 posts
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flanker
I've just had an email from Cotswold saying my order has been dispatched. No mention of what the order is, but I can only think of one thing I've ordered from them.
Got a L100 recce this weekend. Would be handy if it arrived tomorrow...
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May 2015
3:49pm, 14 May 2015
1,379 posts
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K5 Gus
Tempted by the Fenix 3 - how are people who have one, getting on with it. Any grumbles ? Any "if I'd known that I wouldn't have bought it" type complaints ?
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May 2015
4:10pm, 14 May 2015
4,970 posts
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Badger
For the most part, it's brilliant.
I mentioned before that it struggles with windy, tree-covered routes; Cambridge parkrun is a good example. Wheel measured at 3.11, runs with other GPS watches have come out anywhere between 3.0 and 3.1 miles, F3 brought it in at 2.89. I had another watch on the other wrist which read 3.08 that day.
Garmin are acknowledging this sort of route is a problem and say they are working on a firmware fix. I would say that, for now, if you do a lot of trail running it would be disappointing, but if you mainly run in relatively open spaces then it is probably 99% accurate.
Irritating things: you can't calibrate the altimeter by known sea-level pressure; you can give it courses as FIT files or GPX files, but not TCX files, which is frustrating as the sites which will plan courses for you with coursepoints in to warn of turns don't tend to export FIT files, and GPX files tend to split the track and the waypoints apart, which leaves the watch full of orphaned waypoints. I have geeked my way around both of those.
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May 2015
6:32pm, 14 May 2015
1,380 posts
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K5 Gus
Surprised to hear they still have problems with GPS accuracy - you'd think the GPS chip, and software would be pretty standard across all their watches.
Is that with Glonass on or off, btw ?
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May 2015
7:18pm, 14 May 2015
4,971 posts
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Badger
Both, really. I think I'd advise waiting for now. I'll report back on firmware updates. Slightly better GPS performance and it'd be my perfect watch.
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May 2015
9:00pm, 14 May 2015
15,850 posts
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flanker
Other than dodgy run where it measured a known 26.4 mile marathon course as about 25.5 mine has been reliable distance-wise, and most of my running is tail/woods. They do seem to be relaxing firmware updates very regularly. It also consistently reads about 1% shorter than my old 910.
I thought you could calibrate the altimeter. Pretty sure I have done?!
Navigation is the best on any Garmin so far. By a long way.
There is (was, hopefully) an issue with the Bluetooth stack locking up in a 'connecting' state, never managing to connect and killing the battery in under a day. Had it happen a couple of times. First required a hard reset (losing all my config), second time I managed to workout a way to force it to reset itself.
I'd buy it again without a second thought.
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May 2015
11:12pm, 14 May 2015
4,973 posts
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Badger
You can only calibrate the altimeter by entering your current known altitude. The fenix 1 also allowed entering the current sea level pressure, the F3 doesn't.
Totally agree about the navigation - just the track view alone, where your planned route and where you've already been are both very clear and completely distinct, is enough to lurve it.
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May 2015
11:12pm, 14 May 2015
4,974 posts
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Badger
You can only calibrate the altimeter by entering your current known altitude. The fenix 1 also allowed entering the current sea level pressure, the F3 doesn't.
Totally agree about the navigation - just the track view alone, where your planned route and where you've already been are both very clear and completely distinct, is enough to lurve it.
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May 2015
11:13pm, 14 May 2015
4,975 posts
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Badger
Sodding moody wifi.
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Garmin
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