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Bought mine new, and used it for three local rides this past week. Today, the fully charged battery was down to 48% after a 4.5 hour ride.
Extrapolating, that’s a runtime of about 9 hours per charge, a far cry from the ‘up to 25 hours’ Wahoo claim it to have*. I had the backlight switched off (making the screen hard to read in today’s sunshine, so a bit pointless), the touchscreen enabled, and volume down low. The only device it was paired with was my phone. I interacted with the screen all of ten times during my ride. (It tried to reroute me a couple of times - I’ve yet to work out how to disable that function.)
Essentially I barely used it as a GPS navigation device (which is what I bought it for), and it chomped through a chunk of battery.
Am I missing something here?
* “Battery life can vary depending on usage, such as backlight brightness, settings, and the number of connected sensors.”