Instead of having an overheated core, doing nothing but sitting on the DS to cool down, have it resume any unfinished plan with the charge it has received. Accomplishes more production and air flow over the battery helps with cooling it. Charging is stopped anyway.
Probably would need a minimum threshold here, but I like the idea.
It would still have the battery minimum to get back to the DS.
Sure, but I doubt youād want it to go back out at say 30%? Maybe minimum of 50% to continue working?
Anything no matter how small beats doing nothing.
The best solution Iāve found is to get some shade over the core and put an industrial fan blowing on the back of the core. I was able to charge continuously without throttling last year in mid to upper 90 degree temps. I donāt like running batteries that hot, but this is where weāre at.
For me, there were multiple things that resolved the hot battery problem last year:
1). I put my dock in a location that is somewhat shaded from the sun
2). The fabric doghouse shelter shielding Yarbo from the sun while docked
3). When it got really hot during the summer, I was running Yarbo with the battery cover removed to dissipate trapped heat.
Hope this helps.
Question for #2 How often does yarbo go back to charge, and hits on of the front posts of your cover?
I have a pathway that brings it back straight to the dock, and it will spin and hit the post about 50% of the time if not even more than that. Snowblower never hit it. I am thinking of remodeling the dog house to move the front posts back some, like a over hang.
It used to come really close to bumping it, but I was able to arrange things so it sort of barely misses it. Works perfectly with the M1, snowblower, and leaf blower modules.
My trimmer is being delivered today. Iām like 99.99% sure the dog shelter wonāt work with the trimmer attached. But weāll soon see.
Yeah, I am not even going to try it with the trimmer, it will for sure knock that house down.
I had to shift mine back as well. Most of the mower is out in the weather but the goal was to get the core sheltered.
Mine is only about 6 inches forward of the dock already. Hate to move it back even more.
Now that Iāll finally have the trimmer, Iāll be building a permanent ādog houseā for Yarbo. I needed to wait until I had the trimmer so I could take its size into consideration.
The fabric one was just temporary to tide me over. And to be honest, the fabric one was wonderful in the winter. Shielded Yarbo from all the snowfall. Never had to remove any snow from the dock at all.
Mine is in permanent shade and an open area. Still overheats. I can manually resume and get thru the rest of the day just fine. The battery cools down faster running a plan and it gets the plan done much faster. Would be nice if it would automatically resume. Maybe in work preferences a setting āHot battery auto resumeā.
Now that we have the SDK and Home Assistant, we can more easily track and chart the batteryās charging and temperature situation. Should be very useful having that data to find the ideal fix.
Battery Temp isnāt there yet. Wish it were.
Darn. I would have sworn I saw it in there. Oh well. One can hopeā¦
In the interim, we can watch the charge rate and observe when the high temperature charge throttling is taking place.
Not hot enough here yet for me to see it happening though.
Well, at least we can see it happening now, and can try and come up with countermeasures to prevent it.
Hi there,
Thanks for sharing your suggestion! While this feature may not be implemented at this time, we do understand your concerns regarding charging.
We also appreciate all the tips and advice that community members have shared here on how to manage and mitigate the overheating issue.