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Post by riddick on Aug 12, 2014 11:42:57 GMT 11
While driving early this morning, I heard a beep and looked at the screen. A message came up saying something like: "Low external temperature" and it was showing a large snowflake on the screen. By the time I could have captured it on my mobile at the red light, it was gone. I looked at the outside temperature sensor reading, it was saying 3 degrees. A few minutes later they were saying on the radio that it is 7 degrees in Melbourne. Then again that was probably in the CBD where all the pollution from the ICE swarm warms the air up. The joys of living in Melbourne...
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Post by Feng on Aug 12, 2014 12:04:43 GMT 11
Good for your battery!
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Post by southernvolt on Aug 12, 2014 12:39:58 GMT 11
I've had this pop up a couple of times in the last week
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Post by caskings on Aug 12, 2014 14:41:13 GMT 11
While driving early this morning, I heard a beep and looked at the screen. A message came up saying something like: "Low external temperature" and it was showing a large snowflake on the screen. By the time I could have captured it on my mobile at the red light, it was gone. I had the exact same experience a few months back. Hasn't been cold enough in South East Queensland to repeat the event though.
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Post by leafboi on Aug 12, 2014 20:20:00 GMT 11
I've had this pop up a couple of times in the last week Same, starting work at 6am ensures the 'external temperature' is 'very low'! Also Feng, I would have thought cold is better too, but I have seen my battery drop it's amp hours this winter from 64+ to as low as 60.5 on the LEAFspy app. I can't wait for spring, hopefully a warmer battery raises the capacity back up.
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Post by Feng on Aug 12, 2014 21:28:28 GMT 11
I don't know what the sweet spot is, we must be coming from different ends of it. The cold has caused my battery health go from 89% back up to 93% between summer and winter (I don't remember the exact amp hours, I usually look at the SOH).
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Post by Jim Hare on Aug 13, 2014 11:50:01 GMT 11
Yeah, guess extremes in either direction are not optimal. In Sydney a consistent 14 degrees is probably really healthy, where 4 and 40 are both bad.
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Post by riddick on Aug 13, 2014 12:25:48 GMT 11
Also in cold weather, the heater is draining the battery like crazy, so if you do short trips like I do sometimes, it runs at max and you will get a poor range (see my estimate from the other day in the other thread).
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