NY_Rob
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That's very interesting... going back even a year+ people have reported Shipping Mode does little or nothing to reduce vampire drain. That was one or the earliest experiments performed to cut back on vampire drain.Put the vehicle into shipping mode this morning and just tested with the FLIR camera. Looks like this mode does indeed shut off all the camera and sensor heat. Will test again in a few hours as well as check if the range loss is much less when I check that out tomorrow morning.
Perhaps these heaters aren't drawing as much as we suspect? We need to identify their fuse/circuits and put an ammeter inline to get some real current draw numbers.
Great photos BTW @HyperionMark !!
I'm guessing the front grille heat source is the Radar heater?
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