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Ah righto. First time I've left it unplugged for so long without using it. Had no idea the standby power draw would be so high.
Permanently "a few hundred watts" (or something around 300 W according to your calculation) sounds excessive for a passive surveillance system. That's what a gaming PC uses while playing a somewhat demanding game, or a cyclist going uphill.
It's not the surveillance system taking 300w to run.
To keep the car powered on enough that the system is working is going to take up most of that power anyway.
You'd have a similar problem with camp mode which keeps the car on, even with the AC and Sentry off.
In a perfect world if they could design the car so sentry gets powered separately that'd be cool, but sentry was an afterthought, and doing something like that with planning might still be completely impractical