SOSA Safar stops before the timer ends. Is that a fault?

Most of this series ends in a test because no figure exists. This one is the exception. Up to ten hours continuous and thirty hours intermittent per charge is a published claim, and a claim is something a device can be held to. That is worth knowing, because it tells you when a message is justified rather than hopeful.

The answer, in full

It can be, and two cheaper explanations come first. The auto-off timer has three positions, one hour, two hours and three hours, and a position you believed was the longest may not have been; three fixed positions are easy to knock and easy to check. The second is the battery. Every runtime figure SOSA publishes is per charge, up to ten hours continuous or thirty hours intermittent, so a run that began on a battery you had not left on the cable is not evidence about the device. SOSA publishes no charge duration in any form, so there is no figure here for how long it wants on the cable. So the instruction is to leave it on the cable rather than to time it. Then run it again, on a known position, from a battery you did leave on the cable. If it still stops well short of the hour you set, that is a message to SOSA on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.

Two things that are not faults, and the one that is

The published figures make this question answerable, which is unusual in this series. There is a runtime SOSA states and a timer with three positions, so there is something to hold the device to. The work is making sure the run you are judging is a run worth judging.

The position: which of the three it was actually on

One hour, two hours, three hours. That is the whole range and there is no longer setting to reach for. Look at where it is set rather than where you believe you set it, because the commonest version of this question is a unit that ran to the end of a one-hour position while its owner was expecting three. Set it deliberately and write down which one you chose.

Three positions. Read it, do not recall it.

The battery: every runtime figure is per charge

Up to ten hours continuous, or thirty hours intermittent, from a 2000 mAh battery, and both of those are per charge. A run that started on an unknown battery is not comparable with either. SOSA publishes no charge duration in any form, so there is no figure here for how long it wants on the cable. So leave it on the Type-C cable from the box and come back to it, and start the test from there. The ten and thirty hour figures describe the 2000 mAh battery per charge, not how long the oil lasts.

The second run: when it becomes a message rather than a mystery

Repeat it: the same timer position, the same speed, from a battery you have left on the cable. If it stops well short of the hour you set on both days, that is a device falling short of something SOSA actually publishes, and it is worth a message on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531 with both dates in it. If it has done this since the parcel arrived, the transit-damage window is 48 hours.

Two runs and two dates make a report somebody can act on.

The oil is not the variable here

A unit that stops is a hardware event and the bottle has nothing to do with it, so leave the oil exactly where it is while you run the two days. SOSA publishes no per-speed duration and no strength ranking of the nine car scents, so neither the setting nor the oil is published as working the battery harder, and changing either mid-test only costs you the comparison. Same oil, same speed, two days, two dates.

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What is published, and what the two runs add

One thing worth saying plainly: a journey longer than three hours is not a fault either. The timer ends and you start it again, which is the honest shape of the device rather than a limitation anybody hid. What is not normal is a charged unit on a known position stopping well short of it.

“The runtime figures are a published claim. That makes this the one question in the series where a message is clearly justified.”

The two-run test

1. Read which timer position it is on and write it down, with the speed.
2. Leave it on the Type-C cable from the box, then start the first run.
3. Repeat the identical run on another day, same position, same speed.
4. Two early stops: message SOSA on WhatsApp with both dates and settings.

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