Wouldn’t that device simply deplete the 12v faster? It literally just looks like a parasitic drain on the terminals.
Do you have a separate trickle charger you hook up when that bluetooth thing says the voltage dips?
Sorry I’m confused: how does monitoring the 12V solve anything?
Doesn’t really solve anything. It just basically gives you data where you can see if the 12v took a dump with a spike in dropped voltage, if it isn’t at the right voltage, isn’t holding its charge, etc. It holds data going back 5 days and takes a snapshot every two minutes I believe. When you connect to it through Bluetooth it shows real time data updated every second.
If you get one of the usual errors it allows you to cross reference 12v data to see if that could be the cause. That’s really all it really can do.
I haven’t noticed any drain from it. When you aren’t connected to it I believe it takes a reading every two minutes. When you connect to it you can see the data in real time and it updates every second. It stores data for voltage, state of charge, and temperature for a 5 day period.
I have not hooked up a trickle charger at all. I think whatever I did that day caused something to stay on and the 12v just got drained. Been a month since that happened and no issues or warning lights since.
Got it, so this thing isn’t meant to tell you if the battery voltage naturally gets stale over time.
But it does send you an alert if there is an anomaly constant drain or a spike in amps coming out of it for a duration of time?
There are a couple different versions they make. The one I have was what the forums had posted they used which connects by Bluetooth. If it does give alerts I haven’t messed around with it enough to figure that out. It looks like there is a version that has a wireless module that can give your alerts.
People posted they mainly use it to get info on what the 12v battery is doing if they are getting errors which is pretty much what I have been using it for. Here is a screenshot someone posted of when they got the lobster, where the 12v battery voltage was and how it dropped, and where it went to after doing the negative terminal battery disconnect and it returning back to normal and lobster going away.
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Assuming the 12.05v was recorded with this bluetooth device… I don’t understand how unhooking the negative terminal gets it back to 14.37v.
Did this user cure the lobster with a separate trickle charger or something to recharge the battery?
Nope. Removing the negative is what everyone calls a hard reset. Powering off the car and powering it back on is a soft reset.
Usually doing a hard reset and leaving it off for a little bit and connecting it back will get the car to go back to normal for 12v/software issues. If that doesn’t work there is also certain fuses that can be pulled to get the 12v and high voltage battery to totally power off and not communicate as another troubleshooting method, but I haven’t had the need to do that yet.
When I had the dead battery I never trickle charged it. Just jumped it from another car and once it got going haven’t had an issue since. I ended up ordering the monitor that same day and installing it once I got it.
People seem to think the 12v batteries are trash that are being used and especially don’t like to be sitting for months on end not being used which has been the case for a lot of them between transport and sitting on dealer lots for these cars.
I guess I’m just thinking about this literally…
The bluetooth device doesn’t seem to interface with the Dodge at all. I don’t understand how this sensor/device gets a 12.05v reading from a battery then suddenly it jumps up to 14.37v with the same battery when the negative terminal is removed and reattached.
Not sure, but it does for whatever reason. I guess Stellantis engineering and design at its finest. I guess just think of it like a driving computer. Sometimes when a computer acts up restarting it will get it back to acting normal.
my dealer I advertising an 85k scat for 43k - what’s going on with these? thought deals were dead?
The lease deals are dead unless SFS decides to support them again. Almost 13% effective APR and 48% RV killed them. Looks like $500 per month on 24X5 with $2100 DAS is about as good as it gets. Calculator That’s assuming 25% off selling price. If the dealer somehow has more blood than that to offer, they could write a check of about $9k to get someone to under $200 effective per month.
The high voltage battery maintains the low voltage (12v) battery unless a condition isn’t met to maintain the hv battery’s health.
It’s dead, not sure where I noted it last week, but you need a total discount around 60% to make this attractive.
It’s dead, and personally don’t think ever coming back. Dealers sold 70-100% of inventory in Sept. there are very few cars left and I suspect it’s going to be a long tail of recouping some profit from those that don’t know any better or are sales pressured.
This doesn’t match what I’ve been tracking.
there were 220 cars at 60 dealerships within 250 miles of LA September 15th, that went down to 33 cars at 18 dealerships by October 1st. No change since Oct 1st to date.
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On avarage each dealer has almost one unit in stock. Not bad. LOL