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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.

No difference if they are new inventory except you know for sure its immediately available. If you place a custom order you may well be allocated one of these anyway. You may get additional discount on the new inventory page if they are trying to clear cars by quarter end, if you can complete...

Oh dear. This isn’t good- this really isn’t good. You’ve really torn it now. SHE is sulking. You wont get good service if you go round called HER “it” Apologise, make sure she has a lovely name, and flatter her every time you go to the shops. Take her out on the occasional long and...

Oooh real data! And what DOES the supply look like when the Tesla is charging? @GPDP did you find out any more. I read through this whole thread but it just came to a dead end....... need .... to know ...... answer ........ My tuppence is that it will be harmonic interference. Or maybe...

Crikey! It could be causing a problem with the charger. Do the car notifications say the car stopped the charge? If not it may well be the charger has a low voltage limit. My Zappi for example according to the interweb trips on undervoltage at about 200V. Does the charger provide any...

Ah that confirms that you do in fact have a bridging period in flexible if the system considers there to be a gap in the transfer timing. Ye good response from Octopus though.

Ye that seems like a small reduction but say the car sees the 245 as the start voltage. If it falls to 220 the charge will fall back to a lower rate. You got to 235 with 10kW, so lets add another 7kW for your charger, now 228. Lets say there is 5% voltage drop in the wiring of your charger...

This means that one thing that may help is to turn a couple of kettles, fan heaters, or an electric shower and then start the charge. Then turn the other things off immediately and try not use them while charging. This will mean there will be a lower start voltage that the car uses as the...

When I investigated my charger dropping back to 24A (from 32A) I found that many people stated the drop back occurs if the supply voltage falls 10% from its starting level. One source stated 8%. My Teslafi drop was about 8% but obviously low sample rate so it may have gone lower. My guess is...

If you go to the charge log detail in Teslafi open the menu hamburger and click download as a csv file you get the data at minute intervals. For this purpose thats plenty of resolution. You only capture it while charging but thats probably a useful high load sample for your property anyways...

Not really by any noticeable amount. My best trip so far (since Nov) was doing a steady 50mph on an A road temp 5 degrees for a couple of hours it was doing 225 watts per mile, or range of 270. The tests reported on the web on removal of aero covers give variable results but averaging them its...

You can do the test charge anytime, but it will automatically result in you starting the IO tariff if you do it early. You can certainly do the test tomorrow. Not sure what actually happens to your account between now and then, probably it defaults to the variable tariff until you do the test...

If you never get more than 50% then IOS charge calculation seems wrong. Does the schedule include long enough slots? Is the car charging at the correct current? Is it current or time that is wrong? If time you may need to renter the car so the battery size and charger current are correct. If...

Yes this happens. It will schedule some half hour slots and not use of all the time, end up short of charge at the end of the last scheduled slot and then not provide a new slot. It annoys me that it leaves the car up to 5 or even 8% short of where it is supposed to be, and apparently doesnt...

https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/manufacturer-news/2023/03/13/octopus-ev-orders-5-000-electric-vehicles-from-byd

I did West Gloucestershire to Cambridgeshire on Thursday AM. There was a lot of slush on the road around Coventry / Rugby with some drivers still trying to do 60 on what was potentially a wet skating rink in the outside lane if you hit the brakes. I just ambled through in the clear lorry...

There we go, that would explain it. Raise a service request and tell them charging was interrupted. Let’s see what they have to say about the codes.

In RWD cars only slowly. There is a limited amount of heat generation available from one motor about 3kW. I dont know what the exact times are, but it takes only a few minutes to warm up the cabin, but much longer to see the green regen warning due to cold battery go away. I was with a...

Hi waiting room / spec buddy 🖐️ Warming the battery on the RWD / LFP car also reduces the time before reduced regen stops showing. I know this because on leaving my house the first couple of miles may be downhill to the river dodging around parked cars all through the village. With...

Interesting questions. Are there any notifications in the car? If the charger stops communicating with the car the charge drop will happen. I had one night with this scenario, and Tesla told me it was car/charger comms that stopped. That should be a fun one to resolve since it could be the...

Yes thats just you. If you buy new inventory <50 miles you are getting the same as any new order, bar that someone might have rejected the car on collection for no USS or other quibble. Your acceptance invoice when you collect an ordered car also says <50 miles.

Your understanding is correct. I arrived home with 8% last night IO, has added 48kW so is now 86% and has a final 10-11 IO slot still to come. It’s super cool flexible low cost charging. You can if you wish, set up IO now. The process will automatically transfer you to IO. You can then call...

If you contact them they do actually put it back on the cheaper tariff for the remaining time and auto transfer on the correct date.

They installed the meter. They have a responsibility to make it work with the tariffs they operate on it.

Why not just do the job properly? 5 port smart meters are a natural extension of the old clock based 5 port meters. Theres nothing complicated about setting the ALCS remotely, they just need to get organised to actually do it. Since they are such software whizz kids they need to spend a...

On the 6th of December I requested that Octopus align the ALCS setting in the 5 port meter with the IO tariff low rate. Ie make the night storage heaters come on in cheap rate 11:30 pm to 5:30 am instead of running on the economy 7 timing 12 am to 7 am. It took them 2 and a half months to...

You will get text reminders coming up to the delivery date, then a confirmation of who delivery company is, then a confirmation from the delivery company. Also instructions about the electronic delivery acceptance which is emailled to you.

I was given a reg number when the VINs were issued about a month before collection. I think they issue provision reg at that point but mostly are told / cant see them, so mostly we dont hear about it. Early reg can change at the point they do the formal registration process which is in the...

I withdraw this as its completely untrue, I was mistaking it for Zappi threads I had read. Zappi will stop the charge at 200V but V2.1 Zappis will resume when the voltage rises again. Earlier Zappi's remain t ripped.

What load management is set in each of the devices?

Ah very interesting. If that last one is caused by 10% voltage drop it looks like it will recover if the voltage rises back to its original level. That wont happen in my installation while I am charging due to the overall demand. In the car 1 trace it looks like the car is testing the voltage...

Seans comment was not to me it was to pdk42. Drawing 100% of the feeder amps is permitted in the UK as has been explained. The network operator came and pulled the fuse to confirm its rating. The car charger installation approval was submitted with a total load of 100A demand and approved by...

Oh well thats not good. My car will start to charge at 11:30 when IO schedules its first slot. It may well see 240 volts with light evening load. That will fall to 230V with the voltage drop in the garage run, and when the central heating kicks in the 20kW will cause about another 10V drop to...

I read all the posts I could find on slow/limited charging. In the US there are a lot of cases of this happening due to plugging into 40A wall sockets being allowed! So in those cases the car is detecting real poor connection issues in the supply. It may be that this code to detect hot...

Fair comment. I was following the logic that multiple posts report that in installations where there is high voltage drop there is also current limiting, which appears to be the car misinterpreting voltage drop as a high resistance connection in the supply. So it would appear that the coding...

When the car is reducing the current does it show 24/24A or 24/32A in the app?