Phantom Drain while on a cruise

[DeanB1452]

I was worried about how much my SoC would drop while on an 8-day cruise out of Seattle to Alaska and back. I was quite surprised that when I returned, it had only dropped 2%!!!

I parked in the cruise terminal's open lot with 84%. I didn't use any window shades for the windshield or roof. I went into GearGuard settings and turned everything off. I turned off Bluetooth at the top of the screen. I think I also turned off proximity locking. Then I went into camp settings, turned on camp courtesy, toggled Manage Energy to on, and selected Stay off. I walked away and locked the doors from the app. Then I force quit the app so it wouldn't be checking on the truck all the time.

I was expecting a 10-20% drain as I've seen others post about it. I figured the vampire drain would be from fans kicking in for thermal protection inside the cabin. I checked Electrafi and only 2 days did the cabin temp get to 115 degrees and the battery drain on those days was 0.4%. Came back a week later to 82% SoC.

Quite impressed with virtually no battery drain while sitting for a week at a time.

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[tate16t]

I assume this is your ‘22 RIT? The camp mode settings were the likely major contributing factor. Do you experience any drain normally?

 

[DeanB1452]

I assume this is your ‘22 RIT? The camp mode settings were the likely major contributing factor. Do you experience any drain normally?

Yes, '22 R1T Launch Edition. I don't experience too much drain. At home, proximity is set to lock only and no GG recording. I checked back on Electrafi and most of the overnight stays on my vacation where GG was active, I'd lose up to 1% per night. Expland that to a full day and it would be 3-4% per day times 8 days and theoretically looking at 48% drain over that time period. Glad that I did what I did to mitigate any drain and post results so others can overcome the anxiety of leaving their Rivian parked for an extended period and worrying that they'd come back to a dead battery.

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