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Can you pull the breaker or cut the wire. Seems like it would be a simple ish hack but maybe access issues

I ended up pulling the DCM fuse, but it comes at the cost of no microphone for phone calls and voice commands and no front speakers (and obviously no STARLINK).

I did the same after having a shop investigate the drain. They didn't put all of the pieces together as the OP did, but they pointed to the fuse and told me I could pull it.

You can probably easily rewire DCM from always-on to ignition-on. No battery drain and working equipment.

Yep, you just need to move the fuse to a portion that's wired through a relay. Some engine bay fuse boxes have spare relay and fuse positions to add these kinds of things; otherwise you can buy a small automotive fusebox and a relay and a couple dollars in cable and crimp connectors and then you just need to find somewhere to mount it, likely above the outside of the glovebox or such.

15 minutes isn't a sufficient amount of time to reliably recharge a drained ICE car battery.

Ask any tow truck driver.

Edit: Cool, apparently you've completely changed your comment. No worries, it happens. The original comment read something like "I don't believe this, a 15 minute drive is more than sufficient to recharge my battery."

Edit: Shit, my bad, thank you @clippy, this is the second time I've made this mistake in as many days.

> Edit: Cool, apparently you've completely changed your comment.

It seems much more likely that you intended to respond to another post[0] and misclicked.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37971474

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