Charging issue
Discussion
Anyone got any ideas?
We have a Skoda enyaq and charging has been fine from our wall charger. We then changed to Octopus go, so decided to schedule it to charge overnight. When it does, for some reason, it only charges at about 3.5kwh, not the 7kwh it does normally. This only happens at night! If I schedule a charge during the day it works fine.
The pod point charger is controlling the charge, but have also tried the car controlling and no difference.
Nothing else is happening at night, so minimal draw on the power.
Help, it's driving me crazy!
We have a Skoda enyaq and charging has been fine from our wall charger. We then changed to Octopus go, so decided to schedule it to charge overnight. When it does, for some reason, it only charges at about 3.5kwh, not the 7kwh it does normally. This only happens at night! If I schedule a charge during the day it works fine.
The pod point charger is controlling the charge, but have also tried the car controlling and no difference.
Nothing else is happening at night, so minimal draw on the power.
Help, it's driving me crazy!
Seems to be a thing with MEB based cars. Reading on SpeakEV there are a number of posts that read similar to this:
"If the car doesn't get the full 7kW when first plugged in [it] only uses one of the on board chargers so it only draws 3.6kW. I've had this quite a bit with the eGolf when charging from the solar panels. The site charge could be related to that.
So I unplugged and re-plugged (at the car end), and now it’s reporting 7.3kW at 32A. This is better but doesn’t explain what was not right the first time! If you have any thoughts, please let me know - obviously I want to be confident of getting the quickest charge I can, every time."
Seems to fit the issue you are seeing.
"If the car doesn't get the full 7kW when first plugged in [it] only uses one of the on board chargers so it only draws 3.6kW. I've had this quite a bit with the eGolf when charging from the solar panels. The site charge could be related to that.
So I unplugged and re-plugged (at the car end), and now it’s reporting 7.3kW at 32A. This is better but doesn’t explain what was not right the first time! If you have any thoughts, please let me know - obviously I want to be confident of getting the quickest charge I can, every time."
Seems to fit the issue you are seeing.
Edited by paradigital on Sunday 4th September 19:36
Edited by paradigital on Sunday 4th September 19:38
Road2Ruin said:
It does, but why only at night? I tested it using a daytime schedule and it was fine.
Probably because at night your charger is doing a very, very low 'trickle' or only partial initialisation with the car, so it's not enabling the secondary charge unit to enable the full 7kW.It's all a bit daft, but it's not unusual. A few brands have had issues with charger controlled delayed charge.
Europa Jon said:
OP - try setting your PodPoint to dumb mode and control the charge timing with your car.
Hi, as mentioned in the op, tried that too.Found a few other people online and seems to be a software issue. Skoda have a new software out, so booked in for an update. Will post a resolution if effective.
Thanks
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