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Battery drainage

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by Fredatgolf, Jun 10, 2005.

  1. Fredatgolf

    Fredatgolf New Member

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    My battery display on the MFD always loses a bar or two when I park the car for a couple of hours. Is that normal?
     
    #1 Fredatgolf, Jun 10, 2005
  2. Tideland Prius

    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    Depends. Usually, if you park when the battery SOC is at a border of two bars, it'll drop to the lower bar when you restart. Note that for it to go up a bar, it requires a bit more juice.

    e.g. let's say to go down a bar, it has to reach a value of 5 (arbitrary number) and to go up, it has to be a value of 7. So, if you're coming down from 10, it won't change til you're at 5 but when you charging back up, you have to get it up to 7 before it'll add a bar. This minimises flickering between bars as the SOC changes
     
    #2 Tideland Prius, Jun 10, 2005
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