entropy
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All you have to do is buy a voltmeter... Instead of trying to guess whats going on from the ESS system...Only one problem with that. When your main battery fails you'll have no warning and the electronics will just have an aneurism one day.
No, thank you. Combining a Jeep with Murphy's Law could turn into a life threatening situation.
I'd say I benefit tremendously from ESS and it has nothing to do with gas. It's all about ensuring I can operate the electronics that operate the Jeep and have a long warning before that fails. So I don't get stuck with a 100 mile walk in the desert with no cell service.
Jeep designers know what they're doing.
There are proper ways to monitor car batteries.
Running with the main and the aux bypassed is like running a normal car with one battery. Batteries dont just randomly die. You can tell a weak battery if you check it. Even a cheap HF load tester will tell you when a battery is about to hit the dust.
What happens with these JLs is that the dual battery system actually hides issues and then they you have things like electronics going haywire happen. I had a main battery very weak and I was clueless because the aux was keeping the jeep alive. When I tested both batteries I realized my main was about to go.
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