daveo4EV
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as we all have been exposed to the 12V problem legitimate questions have come up about 12V trickle chargers vs. 12V boosters. I think this deserves conversation since they both potentially solve the problem, but attack it from different angles.
A 12V trickle charger will keep the 12V battery alive and the theory is you will never encounter the problem. This is a potentially good idea and will potentially avoid the hassle of a dead 12V battery - we all like to avoid hassle but I have two issues with this approach…
Therefore my recommendation for the good of the Taycan community is a 12V booster which will allow you to recover the car with some level of hassle, but still leaves the frequency and magnitude of the problem on display for Porsche to analyze and respond to.
A 12V trickle charger is simple covering up the problem which will ultimately make the problem last longer in the community…don't trickle charge your Taycan - it lets Porsche off the hook.
A 12V trickle charger will keep the 12V battery alive and the theory is you will never encounter the problem. This is a potentially good idea and will potentially avoid the hassle of a dead 12V battery - we all like to avoid hassle but I have two issues with this approach…
- the 12V problem does not occur on every Taycan (so far) and varies widely by usage. So your 12V trickle charger that avoids the problem may simply be a placebo because your Taycan would have never experience the problem to begin with. And since it keeps the 12V battery charged it's never given a chance to fail…so we lose valuable data about how wide spread this problem actually is.
- By having the battery 12V kept full by the trickle charger Porsche avoids the cost of this design defect and loses data that may lead ultimately to the discovery of the root problem. Having been in the tech industry for over 25 years I know how hard non-reproducible problems like this are to diagnose and ultimately fix, and often (most, 90%) of the time the necessary insight comes from that one case you didn't expect…and boom. You have a fix.
Therefore my recommendation for the good of the Taycan community is a 12V booster which will allow you to recover the car with some level of hassle, but still leaves the frequency and magnitude of the problem on display for Porsche to analyze and respond to.
A 12V trickle charger is simple covering up the problem which will ultimately make the problem last longer in the community…don't trickle charge your Taycan - it lets Porsche off the hook.
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