Member Since: 12 Apr 2020
Location: Essex
Posts: 169
Leaving my IID BT plugged in?
Hi, did a few searches on this but can't find anything.
I bought an obd extension lead with the intention of mounting the socket in a more convenient place for plugging in my IID BT. But then I noticed the port bracket on my D3 can be mounted in a vertical or horizontal position. In the horizontal position I can plug in my IID BT without risk of kicking it, so I wondered... could I just leave it plugged in?
Is there any problem leaving my IID plugged in (taking it out occasionally to update it) and just connecting to it with my phone when I need to?
Thanks in advance,
Ken
27th Jan 2023 10:26 pm
Pete K
Member Since: 15 Jan 2016
Location: GL
Posts: 10360
maybe it would flatten the battery
I wouldn't like to wear such an expensive device out
27th Jan 2023 10:39 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72774
I left mine pretty much permanently plugged in, I can’t recall any issues. But that was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
27th Jan 2023 10:53 pm
Kenny57
Member Since: 12 Apr 2020
Location: Essex
Posts: 169
Pete K wrote:
maybe it would flatten the battery
I wouldn't like to wear such an expensive device out
Two good points. To both I would ask if there is any significant difference to the electronics on the car which remain active even when the car is switched off. They do indeed flatten the battery eventually (I'll have to put my clamp meter on the obd supply and see what it draws), but as far as I'm aware they don't actually wear out.
27th Jan 2023 11:15 pm
Kenny57
Member Since: 12 Apr 2020
Location: Essex
Posts: 169
DSL wrote:
I left mine pretty much permanently plugged in, I can’t recall any issues. But that was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Yeh, there's probably been upgrades since then. May I ask how long ago... and how far, far away?
27th Jan 2023 11:17 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72774
My D3 died a grisly death in July (I think) 2017, 2,000 miles from home (Sortland, NE Norway) and she was given a Viking send off, well stripped before being scrapped.
28th Jan 2023 3:33 am
M3DPO
Member Since: 22 Sep 2010
Location: Notts.
Posts: 8069
GAP do not recommend the tool being plugged in longer than necessary and certainly not permanent.It can when others can't,
It will when others won't,
It goes where others don't.
28th Jan 2023 5:46 am
Kenny57
Member Since: 12 Apr 2020
Location: Essex
Posts: 169
Thanks M3DPO. Relocating to port it is then!
28th Jan 2023 6:56 am
Kenny57
Member Since: 12 Apr 2020
Location: Essex
Posts: 169
I suppose if I'd looked in the front of the manual rather than trying to think up search terms for disco3.co.uk then I might have got to that answer without bothering you good people. My bad, sorry
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