So I skimmed that video instead of just reading the article and it looks like he’s talking about a sensor on the battery terminal so the truck can tell that it’s being charged by an outside charger.
My 16 doesn’t seem to have that sensor on the battery, is it on 2016 cars? I have seen the “system off to save battery” warning and getting 2010 bings and bongs before I hooked up this tender after it seems to be fine.
maybe I’m just not understanding how This sensor wouldn’t be able to tell there Is a current going into the battery. For the system to work it would have to monitor the battery voltage, amperage and charge level. If that increases it should be able to tell regardless of where you grounded off as long as it’s a good solid ground.
I should also mention that it’s the freezing rain part of winter where I live and we’re heading into cold as fuck -25 to -45 part of winter and the car has been parked for the majority of winter so far. Only being taken out for 4 days while I was waiting for an alternator to come in the mail for my daily driver. I usually start it once every 2 weeks or so just to move the oil around, make sure the fuel pump doesn’t seize, etc but other than that the car doesn’t do anything. In the summer it’s not connected to this system