They spend time introducing utterly pointless *sugar*, so this is not an unreasonable ask.
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Change charge rate from app please!
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It works so well.. the only hassle is that you have to be charging to adjust.. but I'm not complaining. Just made my life so much simpler.
I don't think anyone knows for sure but it allows me, and a lot of others, to match solar production to car charging effectively charging the car for free.
Stranger Dings
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What should I be setting this to? I just whacked it up to 30 when playing with the App, but no idea what this means!
You don’t need to touch it. The charge point and car will work out the highest rate which is normally 32 amps. If you want to lower it whilst charging then you can.
Yes, but possibly a daft idea. Without the car realising it’s in a single phase supply it shows the 3 phase current limit which is why you get 16a limit (some MS and MX will be offered 24A and some older MS may have 32). Trouble is, the car remembers based on GPS location so you may have to reset it correctly once plugged in or you may have accidentally halved your charge rate.
Warning! Don't touch the charging amps setting until you've read the scenario below. (additional detail to @GeorgeSymonds scenario)
Yes, you can reduce the amps up and down with the app if plugged in ... but ... the setting that you leave it with will be the amps it starts charging at. The reason this can be a problem is that the maximum amps you can choose (when plugged in but not actually charging) is 16amps. This means that when the car actually starts charging it starts at 16 amps even if the charger is offering 32 amps. I discovered this having moved the charging level up and down in the app whilst plugged in just to see how it happens. I happened to wake during the night and looked at the app to discover that my car was charging at 16 amps (despite the charge point offering 32) ... it was easy then to use the app to change up to 32 amps but it I hadn't spotted it I could have run over my cheap rate before the charging was completed.
I pushed mine up from 16 to 30 last night. It was still at 30 before I unplugged this morning. After I did, it reverted to 16
It will revert to 16 on the screen and app but that's what the car always reports. It should pick up the 32 amps offer from your charge point subsequently ( I say "should" ! )
That will alter what the charge point offers to the car. In this particular scenario the problem is that the car decides to ignore what it is being offered by the charge point and goes with its own setting ... which can be lower than you want, as described above. (The Hypervolt charging current selectability is still a useful feature but it doesn't resolve this particular issue.)
I know, hence the apropos of nothing and assuming you followed this advice. It seems like there is poor or ambiguous coding in the Tesla app rn.
HenryT
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I used mine for the first time post-update last night.
When I plugged the car in the Tesla app showed 16 amp and wouldn't allow me to increase it. At that point the charger wasn't delivering any charge as it was on a timer managed by the Wallbox app. When the charge began the amps shown on the Tesla app climbed to 32 amp without me doing anything. Checked this morning after the charge had finished and the Tesla app now shows 48 amps, presumably now just indicating what the car is capable of taking.
When I plugged the car in the Tesla app showed 16 amp and wouldn't allow me to increase it. At that point the charger wasn't delivering any charge as it was on a timer managed by the Wallbox app. When the charge began the amps shown on the Tesla app climbed to 32 amp without me doing anything. Checked this morning after the charge had finished and the Tesla app now shows 48 amps, presumably now just indicating what the car is capable of taking.
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