Seems like my 1040 solar really only charges during active cycling.
If I have not started a ride in point it to the sun, it actually shows the solar intensity but will never have any sort of battery gain
All I have to do is start a ride and then place the unit in the sun and very quickly it will show a battery gain
The two screenshots below show the first one when the unit was in a pass of State, and the second photo shows when I had started a ride.
Anyone have similar experiences or is there a way to truly get this unit to charge when you just set it in the sun
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They broke my edge explore 2 a couple of updates back, with it not being able to read the charge left (jumps around), which means it turns off constantly and has to be rebooted a couple of times. And then in anything from a minute to 30 minutes, I can go round and round again.
I thought I would go the H1i plus, but that is even more of a sh show, then the etrex touch 2 – same sh show.
Honestly, my phone is way more reliable than any Garmin at this stage, defeating the entire purpose for me having a bike computer in the first place
I also wanted the Inreach Mini 3, but that couldn’t send an SOS according to DCRainmaker.
Their whole newest product lines and newer firmwares for older products seem to have been coded.by AI