Recent content by Zakalwe

The ecar connect app works well and there seems to be a fair few of them about the place. They've changed it recently though and it now requires a minimum of €10 (they probably got fed up of me leaving a debit balance on their app! 😄). You can use a UK debit card to add a balance. They will also...

I had assumed that with the cars being so close together on the VIN that they'd be very close in age.

How would a 21 plate be out of warranty? I thought that the M3 warranty was 4 years, unlimited mileage in the UK? https://www.tesla.com/en_gb/support/vehicle-warranty

Both front wheels wore the tyres down to the canvas on the inner 40mm or so of the tyre, so there could be some other factor at play here.

2020 Model 3 (refreshed model). I got the dreaded front suspension squeak and had the upper control arm replaced at the beginning of June this year. The squeak returned and the same arm was replaced again at the beginning of September. One month later and the squeak is back 🤬 Three control arms...

I wouldn't worry about that at all. Firstly, you can disable that in the current version of the app. Secondly, if (and its a massive if) it ever happened it would be a rare eventuality. No point in letting something with a fleetingly small chance of happening from creating worry and tension...

I thought that they were? They replaced the entire innards under warranty of my Andersen in December 22

Mine is now like Trigger's broom.....the only things left from the original are the side panels and the flip-up lid. :)

For what it's worth, I cannot fault the new owners. Prior to the administration, I noticed that the powder coating was starting to peel in one tiny area. Andersen sent a new panel out quick-sharp. In October I noticed that RCM errors were happening frequently. I would normally get maybe one...

Unless the charger is fed from a tail upstream off the feed into the inverter, then the EVSE load is seen as any other house load. I'm not sure how you would wire the EVSE into solar and not have the battery seeing it as normal house load. Also, in plenty of cases you may actually want to dump...

The IO terms specifically mention heat pumps AND home batteries as examples of Low Carbon Technology It depends on your inverter and what access the manufacturer allows. On mine (GivEnergy) it is very easy to stop the battery draining when the EV is charging. There are open APIs that allow...

I haven't found it to be. I expect that IO will be the future for Octopus. I can see them integrating and controlling home battery storage and heat pumps into the platform in time.

IMHO, MyEnergi are asking their integration to do a lot of heavy lifting here. Yes, It's really nice to have a single platform controlling the EV charging, hot water diverter battery and inverter. However, the prices look incredibly high and not having an gateway seems like a big miss. If...

The charging schedules used to appear within seconds of plugging the car in. I used to get them in the time it took to walk the 15 steps from plugging the car in to opening the front door. However this aggressive polling was preventing the car from sleeping and causing phantom battery drain...

There's no issue with using the A2 with IO. Just switch off any schedules in the app, if you have the Solar integration then make sure the dial is at 100% Grid and that's it.