Has anyone tracked how much energy your Pebble loses overnight while awake, with everything possible turned off? I have been tracking the last couple of nights with everything off (air, fridge, outlets, etc.) and I lose 6–7%. I have the iPad in my garage and the app closed as well. Does that seem high?
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You can easily know this just by reading the energy consumption in the Energy view with your loads off.
I was reading the Energy page for my consumption; that's how I arrived at my energy-usage numbers. Should I open a support ticket if 0.9 kW is high? I have the fridge at 0, no AC, no lights, and outlets off.
IIRC, with outlets off, the vehicle sits around 140–160 W of draw, with the refrigerator compressor not running, but I forget the exact number.
The fan is also off, right? No recirculating air?
Correct. The only thing engaged is InstaCamp.
I had an issue the other day where it was showing 1.29 kW on the appliances with outlets off. I rebooted the trailer and the numbers went back to normal: 0.13–0.26 kW, which is what I was used to seeing.
Thanks for the advice. When I got home and checked, I was still drawing 0.9 kW with nothing running in the Pebble. Restarted it as you said, and now it is pulling only 0.23 kW. Strange, but it worked!
Thanks! I will try a restart, and if that doesn't change anything, will open a support ticket.
Update: our Pebble was at a high state of charge. We left it awake all night, with everything shut down, and lost 4% SoC in 24 hours. We are going to try the reboot trick later today!
HVAC ECO behavior: I thought I had an ECO setting issue, but I think it might be an app issue. I would set the ECO range and leave for the day, then come back to find ECO off and the HVAC running to the pre-ECO setting. I thought ECO just didn’t work, but if I set ECO and stay in the trailer, it works.
What I think is happening is I set ECO on the iPad, leave, and then use the iPhone app to lock the door. I think the iPhone app sets the trailer back to the non-ECO setting. The reason I think this is that the last time I did this process, the HVAC turned on as I locked the door, and then I went back in and ECO was off on the iPad. Anybody experience anything similar? I think, to get ECO to work, I cannot use the iPhone app afterward.
Definitely need clarification/specifics on how these features work! The nuances and edge-case behaviors need to be tested and documented by Pebble before general release.
Agree completely. I don’t appreciate this practice of “put it out there and let them figure it out.”
Are you in Camp Mode? Are you camping in it? If not, is there a reason why you are not putting it to sleep at night? We see about 6% loss of SoC, but with the outlets on. With everything off like that, how are you keeping the Pebble from sleeping? Is it at a high SoC?
We think the inverter is vamping the power. You'd think turning off the outlets would shut down the inverter. After the last OTA, efficiency seemed better, although we didn't record hard data. We think we used to see 180 W minimum usage during the day with everything shut off. Now we see 80 W minimum. After awakening, it starts at a higher draw for a while, but after it fully boots and settles down, the draw ramps down to as low as 80 W. But that fluctuates. Why? Cell connection to HQ polling? We know it always sends out a Wi-Fi signal and there is a cell connection to HQ. Is that all? I'd love to know what's going on under the hood.
We'll try to track this on our trip, but we use power all night, so it is not the same as your question. Right now, while at home, we put the Pebble to sleep at night and wake it up with the sun to charge.
We're going to try this. We are at 94% SoC at 9:30 AM. I'll check back tomorrow at 9:30 AM.
Camp Mode is engaged, but I am not camping in it. It is parked in the driveway. I started at 97% SoC, so it will not go to sleep until it dips below 80% SoC. I decided over the weekend to see what vampire drain occurs and what recharge I realize with solar on. So far I am averaging 6–7% drain, including whatever charges via solar during the day. I know solar production varies considerably with position, location, etc.
It seems like a consistent 0.9 kW draw with no solar being produced. I was just curious, as Pebble advertises up to 7 days of boondocking, but with a 7% draw with virtually nothing on, 50% of your power for this 7-day trip is gone without turning on a light. Just curious what others are seeing.