Try turning off sentry, removing your card from the car, and not using the app for a day. Recording range before and after will then tell you if you have a battery issue, but I suspect it is all or some of the above. If the car does not sleep, it consumes plenty of power.
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Australian Model 3 Highland experiences, tips, tricks
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Thats what I suspect too, like when getting a brand new phone, setting up checking testing all the settings functions hahIm guessing during the honeymoon period soon after receiving the new car people are banging away using all the things you mentioned then as the novelty wears off it settles down
Will give it a full charge and see how it goes after stopping all those things
Sentry will use about 1% every three hours, and the aircon obviously depends on the weather, the temperature you've set it to and whether it's parked out in the sun or undercover in the shade. Can easily use a fair bit - check the Parked tab of the energy app.
Rather than leaving the aircon on for 30 minutes, use the app to turn it on 5 minutes before you get back to the car.
I keep the wifi off all the time and whenever I have to wait in the car for sometime I just enable the hotspot in phone and try to catchup with all the updates. At that time I have to manually connect to my hotspot after turning the wifi on even though I don't have to input the wifi password all the time.
Interesting, when I tried it, my battery was at 88% and I set the max charge limit to 80% and left it connected overnight. I would have assumed that woud do the same thing as having it 100% but no dice for me.
I'll try it again once I'm charged up unless someone else does first. I don't plan on charging till next week sometime unless I happen to get great rates over the weekend.
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No worries, I'll be interested to hear how you go.
Side note, can you automate that process? IE: if kw/hr rates fall below a predefined threshold then charge the vehicle up to no more than 80%? or do you have to manually do all that?
Yeah, chargeHQ can plug directly into Amber and pull current rates, you can set a maximum rate that it will never charge above, and a minimum rate where it always charges below. I've just got mine both set to 0c/kwh so I can leave it plugged in and any time the price drops below 0 it'll suck as much juice as it can till full (I'm LFP so keep my limit set to 100% usually)
That is something new to me. Didn't know the UMC has firmware and it can be updated. So obvious question is how to check the current version and how to update it?
Cheers
P.S Half a question was answered while I was away. Half still actial - how to check the current version?
I tried that today, worked well. Them about 5 mins or so before i left i turned the AC on and the car went from 58ish to 20 very quickly
