azdre
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drees said:Some great information from GerryAZ regarding the broken gauges after losing a bar he's documented in the Collecting data:Off-the-wall power for turtle to 100% charge thread.
GerryAZ said:Incidentally, the car's instrumentation became erratic after losing the first capacity bar. SOC bars sometimes disappear quickly and other times are more like they used to be. The GOM (Nissan calls it the DTE meter) is all over the place--much worse than it was before losing the capacity bar. The first low battery warning (LBW) consistently comes sooner than it did before, but the range between LBW and the very low battery warning (VLBW) has increased significantly and the distance from VLBW to Turtle has also increased about the same amount as the increase between LBW and VLBW. The net effect is that the range is about the same as before the loss of the capacity bar, but much more of the mileage is after LBW.
Edited to add: I lost the second capacity bar at 13834 miles on 8/8/2012 (just before going on vacation), but I have not noted any additional changes to the instrumentation or loss of actual driving range.
I don't see the same behavior. I've heard of others complain about an erratic GOM, but ours moves pretty steadily as expected. Up hills and at faster speeds, it drops about 2 miles per 1 mile travelled as it did a year ago, and down hills and at constant low speeds, it goes up a little, or doesn't go down much. I also haven't seen a difference in the range between LBW and VLBW, it seems to be about 6 miles at 4.5-5 mi/kWh. In fact, I've found the GOM to be very accurate, and I find it funny to call it a guess at all in our case. Currently at a 100% charge, it claims 63 miles available, and that matches very well with what we can get if we were to take it beyond VLBW. Maybe it's because our driving is very consistant, we hyper-mile pretty well, keep it at 60 or below almost all of the time, always are in Eco, and never smash the accelerator. I'm not trying to say others don't do those things, but it might be an explanation for our seemingly accurate range gauge. I guess we'll know in a week how accurate it really is for sure if we have 30 miles hidden below VLBW.