What Is The Duration Readout; What Is The Maximum Capacity Of Total Vertical Ascent Or Descent Feet/Meters In The Logbook History; If Hiking From A Level Of 5,000 Ft Down Hill To 3,000 Ft And Then Back Up To; 8,000 Feet, How Is The Vector Going To Read This Or Average It Out - Suunto Altimax Instruction Manual

To avoid excessive battery drain, the recording is not continuous. The recording functions have certain timeouts
(i.e. the recording will be turned off automatically after a certain time). The timeouts are shorter for the faster
interval and longer for the slower interval.

6.3.4 What is the duration readout?

The duration readout tells you how many hours and/or minutes the event recorded into the logbook lasted. For
example, if you’re hiking from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. and the logbook is on during this time, the readout would show
a duration of 05:00 hours.
6.3.5 What is the maximum capacity of total vertical ascent or
descent feet/meters in the logbook history?
The maximum figure that can be shown on the display is 29,999.999 representing feet or meters depending on
the unit of measurement set. This should be enough for most users: 29,999.999 meters is roughly three-
quarters around the globe.
6.3.6 If hiking from a level of 5,000 ft down hill to 3,000 ft and
then back up to 8,000 feet, how is the Vector going to read this or
average it out?
There are several answers to this question related to different situations.
First, if you mean will Wristop Computer show accurate altitude information when ascending back to 8,000 ft
after having descended to 3,000 ft from 5,000 ft, the answer is yes if the barometric pressure hasn’t been
affected by weather changes. Since the altitude is shown based on the atmospheric pressure reading it will be
affected by pressure changes. But if the conditions are the same, and the reference altitude is set, the unit will
show quite accurate readings.
Second, if what you mean is how the Wristop Computer calculates the information shown in the logbook, this is
what it does: for the total ascent during the log (the logbook recording has been activated by the user when
starting out) it calculates the ascent from 3,000 ft to 8,000 ft, i.e. total ascent has been 5,000ft. For the descent
it calculates the descent from 5,000 ft to 3,000 ft, i.e. total descent 2,000 ft.
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