Teseracts also have a warmup period where they consume their full power for a period of time without uploading or downloading any of it. This was put in place to mitigate cheaty turret creep with tesseracts. During this warmup time, a downlink will show low power. Does your problem persist for long periods of time (eg, more than the 15 second warmup period)?
If that doesn't explain it, could you perhaps give me some screenshots so I can see what you're seeing?