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Just based on experience, gen 3 lasted for two weeks on indypac and the guy I hired it from said it would probably last all the way, shouldn't need spare batteries
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The Trace I had in TCR4 lasted the whole way and then I've had shit luck with the ones I've bought. This year's TCR it was in two ziplocks and a plastic bag and still died. Steve A reckons it could be vibration rather than water ingress so maybe a handlebar mount would solve that but whatever. The one from RaTN fucked out on me as well and that wasn't even a SPOT tracker. I think electronics just dies around me.
hippy
The Trace only has one button and is either on or off so I'm not sure about anything being more or less intuitive.
It also uses the same 4x AAA batteries as the Gen3 so I'm not sure why you think the Gen3 would last longer than the Trace unless it has more power efficient GPS circuits in it, which I doubt.