![]() I even went back to Garmin to triple-check I wasn’t somehow plugging the cable in wrong. In fact, upon discovering this, I drained down batteries and re-charged again with different chargers, thinking I had screwed up somehow. This keeps the battery healthy.īut that was then followed by the realization that the Fenix 7 Pro did not share this new-fangled faster charging. From the 90% level, like most devices, it trickle-charges from there to top-up. It was roughly in the 1hr ballpark to the 90% level, which was really good – on par with what Garmin does on some of their Forerunner 955/965 & Venu 2 lines that have charging times in the hour range. I immediately noticed how darn quickly the Epix Pro (47mm) charged. Now fast forward 15 or so months and I started testing the Epix Pro. The initial product design spec said “Go Really Slow” and that achievement was unlocked. Given they all have different battery sizes, that’s a clear indicator Garmin engineered these units to have identical charging times. Now, as you can see, all three Fenix units (different sizes) actually arrived at their battery fullness levels at virtually the same time (with the Epix too). ![]() I had tested the Vertix 2 at the same time, hence why it’s in there: ![]() To begin, here’s the chart of the existing/original Fenix 7 & Epix units. By far, the slowest-charging watches that I know of. Basically, they took 1hr 45 minutes to get to 90%, and then trickle-charged from there to 100% over the next hour, arriving by roughly 2 hours and 45 minutes. This is most interesting though because last time all Fenix 7 and Epix units basically charged at exactly the same rate. This time though, with the Pro units, I’ve succeeded! I never got around to publishing the video or post on it because my data set wasn’t fully complete. Building a charging station, ensuring I captured the exact charging amounts every 10 minutes, ensuring all units were at the same levels, etc… In theory, it sounds simple, but in practice, something always goes wrong. Over a year ago, when the original Fenix 7 & Epix came out, I went down a stupid rabbit hole of seeing exactly how long it took to charge each of the models.
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