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The number that does not exist is the dangerous one
The ten hour and thirty hour figures are the battery. SOSA publishes no oil-consumption rate at all, so the oil half of this question has no published answer, only a measurement you can take yourself.
I would rather write this page than the one the original list asked for, which wanted a monthly cost and a cost per operating hour. Those two numbers would have to be invented, because SOSA publishes a refill price and no rate. A figure invented for an article follows the reader into a shop and costs them real money.
The answer in 30 seconds
Does the SOSA Safar timer save oil, or only battery?
- In one line. The hour figures are the battery. No oil rate is published, so mark the bottle level and measure your own month.₹1,049
- The short answer. The ten hour and thirty hour figures are the 2000 mAh battery per charge, not the oil. SOSA publishes no oil-consumption rate at all, so there is no published answer to the oil half of the question. Mark the bottle level with a pen, log the date, run your ordinary month and mark it again. Safar is Rs 3,999.
- If you only do one thing: mark the bottle. One pen line and a date turn an unanswerable question into an answerable one in a month.
- What do the ten and thirty hour figures describe? The 2000 mAh battery on a single charge: up to ten hours running continuously, or thirty hours intermittently. They say nothing about oil.
- Is there a figure for how much oil it uses? No. SOSA publishes the refill prices and no consumption rate, so no refill interval and no running cost exist to be quoted.
- So does the shut-off save oil? Nobody can say by how much, because SOSA publishes no consumption rate. A shorter run means less running, and what that does to the bottle is something only your own marked bottle will tell you.
The answer, in full
The two figures SOSA publishes are battery figures: up to ten hours of continuous running, or thirty hours intermittent, from the 2000 mAh cell on a charge. Ending a run early means the cell is used for less time, and that much is plain arithmetic. The oil is a different matter, because SOSA publishes no consumption rate for Safar in any form, which means no refill interval, no monthly spend and no cost per operating hour exist to be quoted. That is not an omission on this page; the figure does not exist. The way to get one is to mark the level on the bottle with a marker pen on day one, write down the date, run your ordinary month, and mark it again. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
What the hour figures describe, and what they do not
Two things empty while Safar runs, and SOSA publishes a number for only one of them. Keeping the two apart is most of the work in answering this question.
The battery: 2000 mAh, and two published figures
Up to ten hours of continuous running, or thirty hours intermittent, on a single charge. Those are the only two running-time figures SOSA publishes, and they describe the cell. Ending a run at one hour rather than three plainly uses less of the charge, and that needs no figure from anybody, because it is subtraction.
Two figures, and both of them are the cell.
The oil: no rate, no interval, no running cost
SOSA publishes the refill prices and nothing about the rate. The waterless nebuliser refills are ₹1,049 for 100 gm and ₹1,849 for 300 gm, and that is the whole of what is published on the subject. No interval follows from a price, so nobody can tell you how often you will be buying one, and I am not going to invent a figure to fill the gap.
Your own number: a marker pen, a date and one ordinary month
Mark the level on the bottle on day one and write the date on a slip of paper in the door pocket. Drive the month you would have driven anyway, at the speed and the setting you actually use. Mark it again. The distance between the two lines is the only consumption figure that will ever describe your driving, and it took a pen.
One month of your own is worth more than any figure I could invent.
Does the rate differ between the nine scents
SOSA publishes no consumption rate for any of the nine and no strength ranking either, so there is no figure that separates them on either count. If you want to know whether your Oud bottle goes down quicker than your Lemon one, the method is the same as before: one pen line, one date, one month, one scent at a time. That is several months of patience for a question nobody else can answer for you.
The pure undiluted oils for Safar are the waterless nebuliser refills, ₹1,049 for 100 gm and ₹1,849 for 300 gm. See the nebuliser refill oils →
Battery, oil, and what is published about each
| What the record says | |
|---|---|
| Running time on a charge | Published. Up to ten hours continuous, or thirty hours intermittent, from the 2000 mAh cell. |
| Charge time | Not published in any form, including the vague forms. There is no honest figure here to give you. |
| Oil consumption rate | Not published at all. No rate means no refill interval, no monthly spend and no cost per operating hour. |
| What the shut-off changes | The length of the run, and so how much of the charge you use. What it does to the oil is not published and has to be measured. |
So the honest shape of the answer is this. The timer certainly shortens the time the battery is working, because that is arithmetic on a published figure. Whether it shortens the oil in proportion, more than in proportion, or less, is not published, and SOSA publishes nothing from which it could be derived. Two marked bottles and two months will tell you, and nothing else will.
“The hour figures belong to the battery. The oil has no published figure at all, and a marker pen is the only instrument that will give you one.”
Measuring your own oil consumption in four steps
- Mark the level on the 20ml bottle with a marker pen on day one.
- Write the date down and keep it where you will find it again.
- Drive your ordinary month at the speed and setting you really use.
- Mark the level again. The gap between the lines is your own figure.
SOSA car fragrance
Mark the bottle today, read it in a month
The refill prices are published and the rate is not. One marker pen closes that gap for your own car in a month.
10 ml sprays ₹459–₹559 · 12 ml hanging bottles ₹459–₹519 · 15 ml refills ₹399–₹449 · 50 ml spray ₹1,509 · three-spray discovery sets ₹709–₹909 · SOSA Safar ₹3,999, ₹4,499 hotel-inspired
View SOSA SafarSee the nebuliser refill oilsQuestions, answered
Do the ten and thirty hour figures tell me how long the oil lasts?
Does a shorter run use less oil?
What does a refill cost?
Can I work out a monthly running cost from the published figures?
Does running a lower speed stretch the oil?
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Safar is ₹3,999, or ₹4,499 for the hotel-inspired variant. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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