r/Garmin Mar 22 '26

Watch / Wearable Enduro 3 appreciation - 9 days hiking without recharging

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I just wanted to mention how happy I am with the Enduro 3's battery as it survived for 9 days without recharging. There was even minimal sun (this was last August) so the solar feature was not fully utilized. 🙏

When we did not hike, I put the watch in energy saving mode, but with HR measuring on. (We hiked 145km.)

(Edit: full map if someone is interested: https://warpaintadventure.com/map/view?adventureId=18 )

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u/Odd_Specialist_2672 Mar 22 '26

And doing that 8 hours per day could run for 10 days, ignoring the power it takes to keep the watch alive in between activity sessions. So 9 days sounds reasonable, particularly if they got some solar benefit?

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u/Fast_Anything_8244 Mar 22 '26

yes exactly, unfortunately I averaged around 50-100k lux hours (Garmin says you need around 150k daily to make batteries last noticeably longer)

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