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Swim Lap distance not accurate

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‎11-14-2023 15:47

‎11-14-2023 15:47

Pool length is set correctly but the distance tracked at the end of the workout is way off. The time tracked was correct as well.

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‎11-14-2023 15:48

‎11-14-2023 15:48

Yes. It is. It's rather poor tracker for swimming.

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‎11-14-2023 16:44

In response to Triletics

‎11-14-2023 16:44

Didn’t have any issues with my Charge 5. Bummer!

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‎11-14-2023 16:55

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‎11-14-2023 16:55

@Kugs my Charge 6 underestimates my swim distance my a lot. One time (my last swim) it was only 1 length difference. Every other swim session was always several lengths short. It doesn't help there is no lap breakdown to see when things went wrong. This isn't swimmers wearable.

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‎11-15-2023 07:14

‎11-15-2023 07:14

Yeah it's a little frustrating,  @Kugs. This morning's plan was to swim 40 lengths, I did 42 figuring that if the Charge 6 short-changed me a bit, I'd still have 1 km total  but it only counted...39!   Had the same result last week so it seems to be consistent but there's no way to calibrate the watch to make it more accurate..

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