Strange Power Usage History - 1500x
Said goodbye to my 1500x for the holidays, and went traveling away from my power station while maintaining an access anywhere connection. Left the unit plugged into shore power to keep things topped off. Lost connection to the unit Dec. 23rd, and didn't see the connection restored until a few days ago. I went to checkout the usage history and saw a weird steady increase in power usage after I left it.
My 1500x is the house battery for my camper-van, but not much was running off the 12V connection when idle (dometic fridge, USB chargepack, small Hotspot) but nothing that would justify these kind of draws and especially not in an increasing amount every day. Also strange, the usage then just went down drastically to where I'd expect it and stayed consistent into the New Year. Any ideas or seen this behavior before?
Sidenote: I recently removed a faulty Car Link Expansion Pack (v2) after a loose EC3 connection caused a short at the positive contact. Hoping this was an isolated incident and didn't cause any further damage down the line inside the 1500x !!!
Answers
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Hi @konev1 I work on Software at Goal Zero. Looking at the chart, it looks like the jumps are precisely consistent, which leads me to assume the recently allocated value wasn't getting cleared by the device leading the sum value to compound (in short, it looks like it was a software bug). If you would message me your Yeti Device ID from the Device Information menu in the app, I could look more closely at the data to aid my theory. I don't really have anything to suggest at the moment – I'll report it as a potential bug. Please post again if you see the behavior continue.
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How did you get that screenshot? What is that available on? Thanks
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The screenshot is from the Goal Zero Yeti app available to monitor and manage the Yeti 1500X/3000X/6000X models of power stations and two older Yeti 1400/3000 models.
