Another Cascadia Opti-Idle question.

2020 Cascadia Opti-Idle woes…so, anyone figured out how to make it so the fkn radio doesn’t pop on full blast with the weather station every time the truck turns on to idle? I’m getting pretty sick of being jolted from sleep every night because I have to choose between Opti-Idle for comfort mode or truck completely off and being frozen out of sleep because my Espar heater randomly stops working overnight. Also, if I use Opti-Idle, about every other night, my inverter alarm goes off and I have to turn it off, which means I can’t play my white noise machine that helps me stay asleep. Isn’t Opti-Idle designed specifically to manage battery draw? What gives? Faulty inverter? Or am I doing something wrong? Thanks…again.

 

Okay, thanks. I’ll have the batteries checked out when I go home.

 

So I found the remote for the inverter, turns out that every time the opti idle starts the truck, it causes a brief power shut off (same as when you turn the key from on to start) and the stupid fkn inverter registers this as low voltage. So, basically, I have to wake up to the screeching alarm every time the truck turns itself on and flip the inverter off and back on and then it’s fine. Until the next time. I think I just have to sleep without using the inverter, which is the only time I really need it lol. At least I figured out my bunk heater. Nothing wrong with it, it just doesn’t operate when the truck is completely off, only when opti idle is running. So, no charger overnight, no white noise. At least my reefer is on continuous mode the past 5 days, so that helps me sleep. Thanks y’all. Think I’ll see if the company will let me bring them my own inverter to install.