Recent content by bobbarley

I drove 100 miles on the motorway yesterday whilst it was pleasantly warm and never saw more than 3.2. I was doing 70mph though, so it’s probably about right.

Are these a straight swap for the stock tweeters, no need for crossovers?

It’s weird that they look like they go into the door, as opposed to the top of the dash

Here’s a question. Hypothetical situation. You plug your car in and OIG comes up with a charging schedule. Let’s say it picks: 14:30 - 16:30 20:00 - 11:30 If your car is plugged in and not charging as it doesn’t need any extra juice, do you still get 7.5p per kWh during those times for...

No, I just leave it on 100% and have it set in the iSMART app to 80% usually so it always goes to that amount. Saves me having to check what percentage the car is on and then work out how much to add. I’ve noticed that even during a smart scheduled period it’s still charging me full price for...

Does anyone know why this would be the case. I’ve signed up for intelligent go and have the devices tab to schedule charging, but the tariff has updated to ordinary go instead of intelligent.

Well Octopus have moved us to Go, but not Intelligent Go. It’s like pulling teeth honestly 😄

Is it normal for the tariff to still say flexible even though it’s smart charging the car?

I think I have it figured out now. I should probably set the Octopus app to add say 100% extra. Then use the car/MG app to control the maximum level of charge as it supersedes the charger? So if Octopus is set to 100%, and the car to 80%, it’ll still cease charging at 80%?

I mean the Octopus app. It seems to give me information on charging by syncing with the myenergi app

It’s so confusing. Looks like the Octopus app wants to know what percentage charge to add, instead of what percentage for it to top up to?

I just switched to the OIG tariff and the app has updated to give me control over charging and scheduling. If I have the Octopus app set to give an 80% charge, do I need to set it the same in the MG app? Or do I set the car to 100% and just use Octopus to manage the percentage charge now?

Well he turned up and did the work. Took exactly 1 hour to do everything, including the additional CU. It looks so simple to install an EV charger tbh.

Did you upgrade R46 or from it?

Personally I prefer to get to where I’m going, so I’d never travel slower than 70mph on the motorway, traffic allowing. I’m quite lucky that my commute is 102 miles all in, so I can drive it like I stole it, pay pennies compared to the diesel I was using, and still enjoy myself. I imagine it’d...