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Real World “Vampire Drain” Roll Call

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I have been monitoring my 12 V battery for the past week. I noticed the following:

About every one day 1/2 (about 36 hours)

- the battery get charged for about one hour at 14.60 V

- then the battery discharge slowly from 13.20 V to 12.70 V (or about 0.5 V).

I noticed several pics of about 50 mV lasting 10 to 20 mS, and I suppose those correspond to an electrical pump starting.

I lost about 3% a week on the propulsion battery. (3% of 75 kWh ) divided by (7 days of 24 hours) = 2,250 / 168 = 13 Wh.

2020 08 13 - Tesla 12 V - 3 days log .jpg
2020 08 13 - Tesla 12 V - 1 H charge  .jpg
2020 08 13 - Tesla 12 V - 33 H discharge  .jpg
 
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I lost 4% over 8 hours last night. Granted it was quite cold but I had sentry off, and I don't have summon. I knew I would have to charge on the way home from work and the battery then went from 10% to 0%. Thankfully I could limp it into the supercharger. I'm wondering if I actually lost more than the 4% and why that happened...
 
Stats puts my phantom drain at 0.7mph, which is quite high. That's probably because I use Sentry Mode when I'm not at home and when I am at home, I am almost always connected to the wall. Anyway, according to the Stats app, that puts me in the 95-96% percentile of phantom drain for the 3. Woohoo!