Recent content by Astrape

Hehehe so much for the rules. Interesting discussion. Like you my charger application was based on 100 amp diversity. 15 kW of night storage heaters and 7 kW of car charger doesnt leave any spare. Zappi is set to use anything spare from a 98 Amp set limit. Very neat the way it allows me to...

My debate with Octopus about aligning my ALCS with the tariff when the clocks change is ongoing but seems to be drawing to an end. After the Spring change it took them 5 months to correct it (after 4 wrong attempts), and then it promptly went misaligned again with the Autumn change. Since then...

I read this thread and pictured little granddaughter and instantly ordered covers. I know how irritated I would be with rolling noises………

Same. After my first 10 minutes hundred miles charge and never having had to wait for a space even on a bank holiday I don’t even think about it except when I go into deep Wales. So impressed with the car, and the charging network. It’s a pleasure every time I climb in the drivers seat.

No, it’s a car. A big steel box is not a good place to get a decent sound. The stock sound system is adequate for listening to entertainment while I drive home so I can really listen to music on a sound system in a balanced room.

What would happen if you stuck a piece of sticky roach trap at the accessible point? Presumably the roller would roll onto it and be captured. Da daaaaah. 😂

Coming from Lexus IS the suspension fidget was the first thing I noticed on test drive. Half an hour is not enough to settle your mind on this sort of thing so I booked a 3 hour drive. After half an hour I forgot about the fidget and concluded it would be fine. Getting back in the Lexus to...

Since I have night storage heaters which are designed for a 7 hour charge, 6 hours is probably significantly closer to optimal in the cold parts of the winter than only charging for 5hours. But your solution is neat if you dont need the extra time. I'm sure Octopus will eventually resolve the...

Sure but this isnt 30 years ago, its today, and the ALCS now sits in a "smart" meter, that can adjust multiple features in half hour settings, and can do automatic clocks change. It still makes no sense for a switch in a meter with clock change capability not to be set to follow the clock...

I can see it works off GMT. The question is Why does it work off GMT. I mean that makes no sense. It is then wrong twice a year against all of Octopus tariffs which are not fixed to GMT. OK having a GMT locked switchover period does make it behave the same as the old local mechanical clock...

Yes the dumb in home monitor cant cope with multiple time segments, poor thing.

So I contacted Octopus to correct my ALCS on 6th December and they finally completed the task on 7th March. 3 months to make a minor adjustment, including setting the exactly 12 hours out, and then denying that they were wrong for 3 weeks. I didnt phone the direct number, since they should be...

Yeah mine has drifted off by an hour after they finally got it correctly aligned with IO, after first setting my night storage heaters to turn on between 11:30 am and 5:30 PM ! 😂 😂😂😂😂😂 But why does the ALCS go wrong with the clocks change? If the ALCS is correctly set in the meter for...

Interesting, thanks so much for gathering those. Well thats all fairly reasonable. 8% is the expected limit for reasonable compatability with other devices. Of course you are 3 phase so the 3rd harmonic cancels out, we may see a slightly larger harmonic on the 3rd on a single phase charger...

Ye I figured they will have cleaned it up a lot, or multiple chargers would distort the local grid too easily, The frequency plot of voltage distortion would be ideal.