acensor
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Newbie Alex here. Only had the car 4 days... less than 100 miles.
What to check with you experienced hot and cold weather owners if some things I’m seeing (or not seeing) re heating and cooling are design issues,
Or mine is defective, or I’m just doing something wrong.
Finally figured out how to use the remote to turn on heat and air-conditioning.
(Locked myself in the car with car on charger and remote in my hand, and conducted experiments with the remote controller.)
I was/am able to get a decently robust air-conditioning session switched on (and off) with the remote.
I could/can also get the heat to turn on (and off) with the remote.
Thing is, though, during a remote-controller initiated heating session the heat output was very modest (mildly warm air coming out of the vent despite the fact that I was conducting this in a garage with ambient air already about 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
I did give it about four(?) minutes to see whether I was just being impatient.
And the only vent heat would come out of was foot vent.
On net based on what I experienced it would seem barely adequate to pre-heat the car on a morning where the garage temp is 30 degrees.
And the remote-initiated heating session would not respond to my manually changing vent director settings (face, feet, window, etc.) Nor (while in this remote-initiated heating session would it respond to manual changes in the fan speed setting.
Also when I test the heater in normal “ready” driving mode (not plugged in of course) I could hardly detect any warm coming out of the vents, although I COULD easily control which vents it comes out of and the speed of the fan.
This is in contrast to running the air conditioner. In remote-initiated cooling and turning on AC while in drive (ready) mode, I can get pretty robust cooling.
Any ideas what’s the story?
Anyone willing to have me phone them or them phone me and both of us sit in our EV’s
and you walk me through manipulating the climate controlls so I can confirm I’m doing this right?
(If so we can exchange phone numbers via a private post here.. Note that I‘m on USA pacific daylight savings time -- posting this at about 2140 my local time)
Also I'm not totally clear if I can do remote preheating and precooling while on the charger without actually having the main battery charging. For example, suppose I want to top the battery off to only 80% (either by manually turning off charging when it reaches about 80%, or by having it charge for whatever hours I estimate will get it to 80% by setting a timed charging session):
The battery is then not charging, but will the Mitsu honor a remote command saying "start heating?"
Help
Alex (in Oregon)
What to check with you experienced hot and cold weather owners if some things I’m seeing (or not seeing) re heating and cooling are design issues,
Or mine is defective, or I’m just doing something wrong.
Finally figured out how to use the remote to turn on heat and air-conditioning.
(Locked myself in the car with car on charger and remote in my hand, and conducted experiments with the remote controller.)
I was/am able to get a decently robust air-conditioning session switched on (and off) with the remote.
I could/can also get the heat to turn on (and off) with the remote.
Thing is, though, during a remote-controller initiated heating session the heat output was very modest (mildly warm air coming out of the vent despite the fact that I was conducting this in a garage with ambient air already about 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
I did give it about four(?) minutes to see whether I was just being impatient.
And the only vent heat would come out of was foot vent.
On net based on what I experienced it would seem barely adequate to pre-heat the car on a morning where the garage temp is 30 degrees.
And the remote-initiated heating session would not respond to my manually changing vent director settings (face, feet, window, etc.) Nor (while in this remote-initiated heating session would it respond to manual changes in the fan speed setting.
Also when I test the heater in normal “ready” driving mode (not plugged in of course) I could hardly detect any warm coming out of the vents, although I COULD easily control which vents it comes out of and the speed of the fan.
This is in contrast to running the air conditioner. In remote-initiated cooling and turning on AC while in drive (ready) mode, I can get pretty robust cooling.
Any ideas what’s the story?
Anyone willing to have me phone them or them phone me and both of us sit in our EV’s
and you walk me through manipulating the climate controlls so I can confirm I’m doing this right?
(If so we can exchange phone numbers via a private post here.. Note that I‘m on USA pacific daylight savings time -- posting this at about 2140 my local time)
Also I'm not totally clear if I can do remote preheating and precooling while on the charger without actually having the main battery charging. For example, suppose I want to top the battery off to only 80% (either by manually turning off charging when it reaches about 80%, or by having it charge for whatever hours I estimate will get it to 80% by setting a timed charging session):
The battery is then not charging, but will the Mitsu honor a remote command saying "start heating?"
Help
Alex (in Oregon)