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I haven’t seen an H8 from that manufacturer
Battery issue, Charging issue or BMS issue?
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Yeah, the search function on the Batteries Plus website showed me the Group 48 battery under those search results for the Group 49. This is why I wait till afternoon to engage my brain.
Locally I have the Duracell SLI49AGM, built by Deka - probably gonna snag that. I'm literally standing in front of it right now.
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Hell ya. Hopefully that fixes your problems. I’ve been monitoring mine and I’m getting about 5% SoC drain in 24hrs. I feel like that’s normal and I’m even seeing the truck reach 80% (ford BMS set limit) within 45 minutes of driving which I haven’t seen routinely with my motorcraft battery.
Tossed that biggun up in there. Fit with a tad bit of room to spare, lengthwise, as well. No clearance issues. Blanket went around too, nice and snug.
Went to batteries plus, and they knocked off $20 cuz Sam's had a "similar" model from Duracell but not the same, so they met me in the middle. Had them bench test it before I bought it. Showed 83% SoC, and registered 1,088 cranking amps at room temperature.
Then to my surprise, Amex had an offer on their Platinum card I used which gave me a whole whopper of 5% back. Sweet!
I'll be sure to report back by at least the weekend when it sits and only looks pretty and does no duty. I get to drive the V8TT on weekends instead of the widdle V6TT
Pics because do you know me? Always pics!
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Some things I've noticed since I replaced the battery yesterday and did a BMS reset:
- The shifter is more grabby/catchy. I like it, it feels like it's solidly in gear/park/neutral. Not sure if this is at all related.
- The truck turns over faster and starts quicker.
- I'm getting OTA updates out of the ***** suddenly. (I cannot say WAZO0 but I can say shit? lol)
- Android Auto still doesn't work for shit.
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Just the OTA updates are huge!
My garage interior camera keeps alerting me that there's a vehicle detected. I reviewed the footage cuz it was getting ridiculous and my truck is in there flashing it's lights and making clicking noises and having a party all itself
Welp, I have fairly high confidence that what I felt (and everyone here thought), and the dealer said no way, has been solved as a battery being stupid.
I replaced my factory AGM with the new Duracell as posted above and I've not had one problem, FordPass notification, the truck is awake and alert when I'm nearby, the lights work, everything is as it should be.
Replace the battery folks. It starts faster and seems Android Auto has un-jacked itself for the most part as well.
It sat all weekend and never had an issue like I would have every single other weekend.
I replaced my factory AGM with the new Duracell as posted above and I've not had one problem, FordPass notification, the truck is awake and alert when I'm nearby, the lights work, everything is as it should be.
Replace the battery folks. It starts faster and seems Android Auto has un-jacked itself for the most part as well.
It sat all weekend and never had an issue like I would have every single other weekend.
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I JUST got done swapping back and forth with the new battery and the only few month old problematic motorcraft battery. the motorcraft NEVER had stop start engage, saying "charging" as the reason on the dash. It was charging at 13.5V so im assuming low SOC. went back to my new H8 and immediately everything was working again. im sold on the rotorcraft having a problem.
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